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…

Today, I found myself in front of an elementary school during the afternoon dismissal. When the doors opened, I saw entire classes of children exiting with bowed heads, sad, angry, with tears in their eyes. I asked for explanations, and I was told it was an early commemoration of the ‘Day of Remembrance.’ The proud…

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 over a past memory, frustrated individuals in traffic, and children happily playing in the streets.…

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 to pass through a certain way, and you certainly won’t be the one to divert…

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 carrying in our hearts the hope of embracing others when the snow melted, not getting…

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. People passed by without noticing them, without stopping, but they were creating a true miracle.…

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 a mask on your face. And you would be right: they had talked to you…