Behind my house, three minutes‘ walk away, a river flows. Almost every afternoon I go to see the heron where he stands sentinel-still in...

Twenty years ago I sat in my first silent meditation retreat. It was the third day out of the seven and I had already shed quite a few...

Whenever I get to hear an artist talk about their work or read someone’s book about their work, I learn that in spite of this person...

We spend so much of our time fretting about what we should do in order to become who we’ve decided is the best version of ourselves. The...

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...