On March 20th, during TEDxNavigli, the Moleskine® notebook created by me and Ferdinando Buscema will be officially released. It is a meditation tool on the necessary balance between Power and Love in our contemporary society.

Once Martin Luther King told:

The concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites. [...] What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. (1) 

Left to itself – at rest – the elastic band stays on the heart, symbol of Love. The elastic band can be stretched up to overlap the symbol of Power, but this position requires excessive energy. Only the application of a balanced force allows to place the elastic band on the central symbol that combines Power and Love. Curiously, the force in Newtons is equal to 1.618 – the Golden Ratio, an ideal of harmony and the principle of natural and artistic phenomena.

By incorporating this universal constant, the notebook allows to reflect on the Power of Love – a pillar of the harmony of the spheres since time immemorial.

This is the official website of the notebook.

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