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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…
Prayer is a poem, a dedication, a wish that bounces and amplifies throughout the Universe and returns to us like a wave.When you really pray you are not telling God, the divine, what to do, quite the opposite: you are…
A river that originated in the distant mountains crossed landscapes of all kinds and shapes and finally reached the sands of the desert. Like every other obstacle it had overcome, the river tried to overcome this one too,but as it…
Yesterday on the train to Rome I met a wonderful Buddhist monk. My assigned seat was in front of his. An initial greeting was enough to start chatting softly. Among many speeches, a Master that we both have in common…
You have every right to lie, they have done it to you thousands of times, for lifetimes, in so many different ways. You can now indulge in an incarnation busy with matters that do not concern you, pretending every day,…
