It is quite common to idolize teachers and one way of doing it is by imagining that a weakness one may have has definitely been overcome by the teacher. It is a…
I've been thinking a lot about the Universe and God and the Divinity. I can't figure out what is the connection between them all. I was raised as a Christian Orthodox, in a…
Our attention, or more precisely, our possibility to direct our attention, is one of the most powerful and important tools that we have at our disposal, and it is what crates the…
I have many questions about life and how to live it, but there is one in particular that troubles me: what is the meaning of life, of it all? The more I read about…
One way to understand Presence is as a sense of being in the moment, an alertness, an experience of immense quiet openness, and an embracement of ‘what is’ including myself as I…
When I found out I have a rather high risk of developing cancer, it was the first time I genuinely felt the need to stop. Stop running from things. Stop running towards…
In March, the day before my birthday, I suffered a medical intervention for a painful and chronic disease called Endometriosis. It's something you have to live with for all your life and it…
I don’t often talk about physical health. The reason I don’t is there is talk about it everywhere else and, since there is so much information, I tend to think everybody is…
When you said in the last retreat I attended that the nature of 'things' is that everything changes, I smiled, thinking that maybe that was true of everyone else, but not of…
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