Ray had a big farmhouse with Moth, her husband, whom she deeply loved. On that land they raised their two kids, loved their animals and...

When your trust has been broken it’s quite difficult to bring the trust back to its previous strength. We cannot glue it like a broken...

At first, when you just start bleeding, as the skin of your heart gets caught in the thorns, you must act fast. You must put a plaster, a...

The sun finally declared ownership over the mid July sky after three weeks of rain. I took to the streets of Zurich town, to sit in...

The fear of doing something wrong or the fear of losing something are the two most common existential fears. There was a time that I...

The river doesn’t try to grow beyond its banks just to prove it can be bigger. The tree doesn’t feed the leaves with nutrients and fluids...

Stop. Take a deep breath, preferably sit on a bench in the fresh air or on the naked earth. When you’re lost, the slower you can go, the...

In the summer I go to my friend’s house and after a chat and perhaps a glass of wine we leave our stuff at her place and walk barefoot in...

Suffering is a big word, and a very popular one in Buddhism. I know many people who’d say that they are not suffering even though they...

When my teacher Christopher Titmuss invited me in 2002 to join him on a retreat in Germany, and then to England, I left my job as a...