David Simurgh

A monk had an appointment with God. Along the way, he met another mystic who was meditating with utmost seriousness. The monk then, interrupting the other’s practices, made him this proposal: “I am going to the Divinity. Do you want…

This morning I read your questions and I found this one: “Dear H. David, the people who are closest to me dump every weight and frustration on me. There are days when I think they take advantage of my love.…

Never before has Spring knocked on the door like this year. Everyone needs it, the whole of humanity desires it. And when she invades our homes, with her light and her fragrances, she brings with her the call to an…

A long train journey a few days ago gave me the wonderful encounter with Danilo, a strong Spirit whose right leg had been amputated due to a serious accident. “The strange thing,” Danilo tells me, “is that I still feel…

You cannot live long by restraining yourself, keeping your true nature, the Truth you have come to bring, at bay. You can try, but it is an endeavour doomed to failure. Tyranny over oneself or others is simply too exhausting,…

Meeting a man at the station in Milan. Me leaving on a long journey, him half lying on a marble staircase sipping a heineken and watching people go by. “Hey puppies, you want to know something?” He thunders at one…

In a time as merciless as ours, in how many hearts grows the desire for total and eternal Peace. To end everything and simply deserve silence. On our shoulders, however, weighs the duty of a mission to be accomplished on…

“A few months ago I lost my husband in a car accident. Missing him takes my breath away. Can you tell me something?” My dear, I can share many words with you, but they won’t help fill your emptiness. You…

Parent schools, kindergartens in the woods, the exchange of services and goods without money, open-air theatres, libraries and cultural clubs in homes, doctors in holistic clinics, psychologists on benches, temples in nature and in every corner of the city. There…

A monk friend from Eastern Europe told me these days how his monastery is coping with increased expenses for bills. Every evening, the lights are turned off and candles are lit in the meeting and prayer places. His brothers are…