Over the last few weeks I’ve been running into a recurring theme that I’d like to share with you. I still don’t know why it keeps popping up, but maybe I’ll clear my conscious thoughts and shake the subconscious ones to the surface, to the light. The theme I’ve come across is the idea that: […]
I noticed a long time ago that some popular sayings are very similar in several languages. I don’t remember all the details, but the first such revelation I had was in China when my colleagues were translating their popular expressions for me and I noticed how similar they were to Romanian ones, the so-called old […]
“I love the smell of books!” A phrase I often hear from acquaintances, friends, relatives. Either the smell of freshly printed paper or old books. My mother often tells me that she loved the smell of a library – she was, for many years, a librarian and documentarian at the Medical Documentation Center (M.D.C.) Library […]
A statement by Neale Donald Walsch, in his book Conversations with God, jumped out at me when God talks about creative thought: that behind every thought is another thought. Walsch called it the “sponsoring thought.” It seems to me that he has captured, in one sentence, an extremely common phenomenon. It is already well known […]
I was sitting at the checkout at a popular supermarket I don’t want to mention… Mega Image In front of me, a gentleman with a warlike attitude, his eyes sharp and the corners of his mouth drawn as if from a factory to his displeasure, was questioning the cashier in an authoritative tone about some […]
Ever wondered if emotions have a sound? For example: Would it be just a tone, a melody, or even a whole symphony? And if it had a sound, would it be the same for everyone, or would it be influenced by our experiences, by our sensibilities? Well, I think every emotion has a melody. That […]
I invited you in the previous article to smile. To smile with or without reason, as an act of resistance in a too serious world, a sign that we are connected, that we are present. I have said before that I would like to elaborate on the idea of presence, a fashionable term, a kind […]
I happened to come across a podcast in which the guest, Răzvan Vasile, proposed a simple but challenging exercise: choose one of the four imaginary boxes he was holding in his hands. The boxes contained: The podcast’s host chose, without hesitation, the health box – a natural choice, one we’ve heard over and over again, […]
The other day I bought a mango. An ordinary fruit, found in a supermarket in Bucharest, without great expectations. We all know that, more often than not, the exotic fruits available to us fail to come close to the authentic taste of their regions of origin. We pick them up, we look at them, we […]
Seneca, the lucid stoic who bequeathed us a treasury of reflections on life, wrote: “People carefully protect their property and their savings, but they overlook their most precious asset.” It was about time. It is a painful but liberating truth. Time is not just a resource. It is our chance to live, to love, to […]
Claudiu Simion tackles themes related to consciousness, identity and inner transformation, in a constant dialog between personal reflection and conceptual rigor.
“The courage to look at yourself honestly is the first step to change.”
— Claudiu Simion
