Category Soulfood

The moment when one becomes cynical

In the many phases of self-work, there comes a moment when one becomes cynical. You look within yourself and find that you are entangled in dense webs of automatic mechanisms, invincible shadows, fears, and needs. But you especially look at…

The Monk and the Mystics

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…

The Call of Spring

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 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…

How to turn every fear into desire

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,…

Are you more stupid or more tired?

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…

The mission of peace

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…