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...

“The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive” ~Bill Watterson Our ideas and beliefs act like stepping-stones...

Love cannot come out of judgment but ironically judgment always stems out of love When Nora came to me she was after a year-long break, a...

It was a bit windy and chilly but I needed a walk. I went down to the Glatt river just five minutes walk from my house where the water is...

As it is necessary to open our heart in order to feel love, it is necessary to offer a safe home to the orphan pieces within us in order...