Our daily preoccupations often lead us to have an optimistic approach: we constantly try to optimize our time, our money, our energy etc. This self-interested relationship corrupts somewhat our conception of life and a fortiori our relationship with others. The search for gain and our aversion to loss tend to infiltrate our mental software even in our most familiar or…
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What is divine when we contemplate a landscape is that we admire at the same time a nature that is not aware of itself. The same is true for a talent that expresses itself without the awareness of this beauty interfering in the subject enjoying this gift. Vanity appears when too many praises are pronounced against us and we end…
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Meaning of trust in Cambridge Dictionary: To believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you, or that something is safe and reliable. We were born naked in complete inability and need, unable to avert environmental hazards and meet our basic needs, still we were lucky enough to be taken care of in warm protective and supportive…
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Our dissatisfaction is both the symptom and the cause of our unhappiness. We are rarely satisfied with what we have, what we are or what we do. The insatiable search for gains and honors leads us to constantly desire an idealized elsewhere. This inability was forged in our earliest childhood: we grew up in an era where the temporal takes…
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Asking Waking up late at night, by feeling a fire in the heart, the pilgrim goes from city to city and from one place to another in search of the breeze that puts out the fire. As the inquiry continues, the fire burns more the false identities that the pilgrim carries with herself, and the coolness of a breeze blows…
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Appreciating the present moment has become a ritual that is difficult to get rid of. Indeed, books and advisors of all kinds make the apology of an existence detached from any torment which finds its source in an ability to live the present moment. How can we adopt such a posture when everything in our daily lives pushes us towards…
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two paths are open to us In our relationship with others, there are very few situations in which we are truly equal. Whether it’s business, work or personal relationships, there is bound to be a slight inequity that can grow over time. When dealing with others, therefore, one can choose between two approaches, that of serving or that of taking…
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We all have a rhythm, a pace or a tempo that carries us through the day, weeks and even years. This pace is unique to us, but it is also the result of conditioning, whether cultural, familial or professional. What happens when we are pushed around by people who don’t have the same look as us? Very often, we feel…
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or the benefits of serendipity Serendippo, according to a Persian tale, is a kingdom ruled by a king concerned with the moral education of his three princes. To perfect their education, he sends them to the four corners of the kingdom to glean valuable lessons and thus make them exemplary monarchs. According to Le Robert dictionary, serendipity is the “ability…
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It is up to you to find that village populated by your spiritual family. It exists somewhere in the sky, in your mind, in your books, in those few friends, that family, that tribe you think you never had. Providence has entered you into a game without you knowing it. It has given you two families: one of blood and…
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