Falling in love with your own shadow is a crucial step. Because there are dark areas within us, places far from daylight, voices we hide out of fear and shame. And learning to fall in love with them means honoring your nature, reassembling the image, returning whole. One look is enough to understand what it’s…

Ours is an eternal love story, an infinite journey through the Universes within us. Along the way, you’ll ask yourself: “How do I recognize the growth of my awareness?”. Here are some important signs: The esteem you hold for yourself is an inner value, independent of others’ judgments. You know what nourishes you and you…

Wounded children govern Humanity. And as long as those who rule this planet are wounded children, Humanity will not know peace. Try asking a government the reasons why it acts violently and is in conflict with another government. You will hear that it all has to do with fear, selfish gain, and the grand justification…

This morning on Mount Athos a monk immerses himself in the prayer of the heart, in Varanasi a Brahmin deeply reads the poetic Vedas, somewhere in the Sahara a Marabou heals with his herbs, in Tehran a Muezzin calls the faithful to vigil, in the Amazon rainforest a Shaman performs some ritual dances. These are…

The first step is to realize that something is not going as desired. The actions taken in the past have not produced the hoped-for result. If you listen closely, you can easily hear it: the pressure increases, everything slows down, the movements are no longer natural, sincere, simple. In the second step, you are dealing…

Trust is a cornerstone, the necessary condition for a relationship to flourish in all its beauty. Whether it’s the relationship with oneself or with others, having trust is really important, and the beauty of having it is that you can never take it for granted. Because trust can be earned, but also lost, and then…

When someone wants to be right at all costs, make them a precious gift: agree with them. Because it’s not your job to convince someone who doesn’t want to listen, who wants to go their own way or considers it better than yours. And if you let the people around you make their own choices,…

We are pilgrims in a beautiful world, walking among billions of hearts… how much wonder for those who know how to recognise it. This morning a dip in the Germanic moors with some adventurers with me. For miles just silence and the company of the first rays of spring. Then suddenly something calls to us,…

We realize each other’s dreams in a great story of eternal brotherhood. This is what the Maasai told me during our meeting. Our lives, in all their wonder and nuance, even in the most difficult moments, gift us the blooming of seeds that a thousand generations of hearts have planted in the earth. Because when…

The distance that forms between us and others in a relationship is always the result of many small unfulfilled expectations. Moments in which we wished the other would give us that attention, that affection we felt in need of, and instead found them absent, distracted, not empathetic enough. And from the missed expectations often also…