David Simurgh

In these days, snow has settled on the roofs of Northern Europe. First in Bremen and then in Amsterdam, every heart I encountered responded with what it carried within. Some rediscovered anger due to a missed appointment, others felt melancholy…

When you wish to help someone and receive an aggressive response or a total rejection, it is a truly important moment. Because when it happens, it’s as if that person is telling you that it’s okay, that their path needs…

At the gates of winter, for thousands of years, we gathered around the fire. Close to each other, we spent time telling stories of our heroes and how they always found their way home in the end. Each of us…

At an event a few weeks ago, I met a wonderful artist. In a few moments, he had enchanted the people admiring him. He sculpted clay completely immersed in a hypnotic dance, and together with his audience, they were radiant.…

You have every right to lie; they have done it to you thousands of times, for entire lives, in many different ways. Now you can indulge in an incarnation busy with matters that don’t concern you, pretending every day, with…

On the train that took me to Rome a few days ago, during this intense period of classes and conferences in Italy, I found myself in the company of three passionist nuns. I, engrossed in rereading the beautiful Bhagavad Gita,…

A friend, a monk from Eastern Europe, told me these days about how his monastery is dealing with increased bills. Every evening, the lights are turned off, and candles are lit in gathering and prayer places. His brothers are not…

This is the time of separation, the historical moment that pushes towards a selection among individuals, generations, and ways of being in the world. Anyone on Earth now is surrounded by waves that either engulf them or that they can…

Each one of us carries a seed within, without which the world would be less rich, and with which this garden can become a lush paradise. Thomas Sankara found his seed at the age of 35 when he became the…

Many have asked me this in recent weeks. We have, after all, moved past the time of solitude, and this is the time of alliances. Who are the allies? Allies are those who share with you sensibilities, vision, and priorities.…