blog-posts - Prabhuji

“The sound of a subtle silence”

Words by Prabhuji from the solitude of his hermitage

A lonely journey…

Jun 10, 2025 |

"Institutionalized religions, considered from their historical formation, are founded on a misunderstanding that not only runs through them, but constitutes them from their very foundations. When confronted with mystery, the disciples were unable to sustain the tension of a quest that demanded solitude, silence, surrender, and radical exposure. Unable to inhabit that wilderness, they sought in the proximity of others the illusion of a certainty they could not yet find in their own experience....

Democracy

Jun 10, 2025 |

"Democracy, in modern public consensus, has attained the status of an absolute principle. Merely mentioning it seems to confer legitimacy, as if repeating its name were enough to ensure its moral value or criterion of rectitude. It is presented as government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but that formula, however solemn it may be intended to be, acts more as an empty abstraction than as a description of a fact. Instead of illuminating, it veils, it covers. It does not...

That inevitable loneliness…

Jun 9, 2025 |

“Perhaps you share your life with someone: a space, a bed, habits that are part of your routine, gestures that mark the passing of the days. Perhaps you live with voices that call your name, with presences that surround you, with bonds that, through repetition, seem unbreakable. Perhaps you laugh with others, respond to messages, fulfill what is expected of you. And yet—and perhaps precisely because of this—you live alone. Not because you lack relationships, but because there is a radical...

Comparison

Jun 9, 2025 |

“From our very first steps—even before we become individuals—we are thrown into a structure that operates discreetly but effectively: comparison. As soon as we open our eyes, someone is already being held up as a model, a benchmark, a standard. Someone who, we are assured, “does it better.” In that seemingly innocent gesture, the first crack appears: a silent wound that, although it does not bleed, never heals. Learning becomes competition. Play becomes an effort to fit in. And the gaze of...

Dialogue

Jun 9, 2025 |

"A conversation between someone who has realized the truth and someone who has had direct experience of it cannot be reduced to a simple exchange of information. Rather, it takes the form of an exchange of views which, although they may differ in form, spring from a shared root: experience. In this type of encounter, there is no need to defend a position or a desire to confront. What emerges is a tacit, almost silent recognition between two people who speak from a knowledge that is not...

Emotional freedom

Jun 8, 2025 |

"The automatic gesture of neutralizing pain reveals an unspoken lesson: we have learned not to dwell on what we feel. Today's culture, saturated with instant gratification, turns every discomfort into an excuse for a fleeting reward. Thus, sadness ceases to unfold as an experience and becomes a gateway to superficial gratification. The brain registers this circuit, turns it into a habit, and transforms pain into an operator of accessible, brief, repeated dopamine. It is not enough to abstain...

Buddha, Rumi, Rabbi Akiva, Mahavira, Shankara…

Jun 8, 2025 |

“The crowd is rarely interested in the truth. The masses eagerly seek a stable form of tranquility. The public does not want reality to intrude on their lives; they want their routine to remain intact. There is no impulse toward the unknown, only a need for confirmation. That is why, when a figure who has crossed the threshold of collective slumber emerges—a Master like Buddha, Rumi, Rabbi Akiva, Mahavira, Shankara, or any individual whose very presence disrupts the consensus—they are not...

When the figure of the Master dissolves…

Jun 8, 2025 |

"It is inevitable, at certain stages of the inner journey, that the figure of the Master becomes charged with a symbolic density that borders on the sacred. It is not merely a gesture of admiration or an emotional response to gratitude. What takes root in that bond is a form of ontological resonance: a silent communion with someone who, at a decisive moment, knew how to translate confusion into guidance, disorder into direction, and short-sightedness into clarity. At that point, the mere...

Painting

Jun 8, 2025 |

“When the hand rests on the canvas without premeditation or expectation, strictly speaking, a work in the conventional sense of the term is not produced. What happens is something more elusive: the withdrawal of the subject who until then was considered the creator. In this gesture, the painter does not decide, does not direct; his presence dissolves as if absorbed by a force prior to the impulse. The line that emerges is not due to will, nor does it respond to a consciousness that imposes...

The world as an idol of nothingness

Jun 7, 2025 |

"It could be said, following a certain line of thought developed by Derrida in his work "Of Grammatology", that the world presents itself to us as the idol of nothingness. No longer as a full presence, but as that which, in its very apparent consistency, veils and at the same time reveals a radical absence. In this sense, idolatry would not be limited to transcendent figures—the image of God, the sacralization of an absolute—but would insidiously extend to the most immediate: objectual reality...

The smoke of the marketplace…

Jun 7, 2025 |

“The commercialization of the spirit transforms the disciple into a customer, a client or consumer and the Master into a merchant or trader. The smoke of the marketplace extinguishes the flame of that which, because of its great value, is priceless.” Prabhuji

Mind vs intelligence

Jun 7, 2025 |

"The mind, often mistakenly identified with intelligence, is neither its origin nor its expression. This distinction, far from being a mere nuance, dismantles a deeply rooted convention: the assumption that knowing is equivalent to seeing, as if accumulating data and information were a guarantee of understanding. Under this illusion, the mechanical operation of the mind is confused with the act of understanding in the full sense. But the mind, in its ordinary functioning, does not create: it...

The path of “the empty hand”

Jun 5, 2025 |

"For many, it is puzzling, to say the least, that karate-do, a martial art based on physical confrontation, bodily discipline, and combat technique, originated in Buddhist monasteries, particularly those shaped by the meditative sobriety of Zen. The contrast seems insurmountable: a practice associated with confrontation within a tradition that exalts nonviolence, compassion, and detachment. But this apparent paradox does not arise from the fact itself, but from the way it is interpreted. The...

What is, as it is…

Jun 4, 2025 |

"Meditation does not consist of directing attention to a fixed point, nor of reaching a particular state of mind, nor of deliberately inducing some form of inner stillness. Nor is it an attempt to capture an essence supposedly hidden in the depths of the body. In its most rigorous sense, meditation does not involve searching, expecting, or producing an experience. Its most decisive act—and perhaps the most difficult to sustain—lies in suspending the belief that there is a subject who...

Karate as a process

Jun 3, 2025 |

"Approached from the perspective of Budo, karate ceases to be a sequence of classifiable techniques or a system of graded progression. It is not offered as a succession of achievements, nor does it respond to the logic of accumulation that dominates much of modern thinking. Rather, it unfolds as a continuous process, irreducible to a conclusion, with no promise of culmination. No amount of years—twenty, thirty, forty, or more—is enough to exhaust its demands. Far from leading to a stable goal...

Karate do

Jun 3, 2025 |

"Karate-Do appears, at first glance, as a series of precise techniques: punches, kicks, movements, breathing. However, it conceals something more subtle, more elusive. It is not openly displayed; it is barely revealed, veiled by physical execution. Each gesture, each bodily sequence, conceals a silent teaching: a way of inhabiting the world, an ethic of silence, a unique way of listening to the body in the moment of conflict. In Japanese, karate means “empty hands.” This expression, more than...

Knowledge and wisdom

Jun 3, 2025 |

"It would be absurd and misguided to deny the need for knowledge, information and education. Its architecture is clear, its exercise rigorous. It offers tools, data, documentation, statistics, defines frameworks, establishes languages. However, it also runs the risk of becoming crystallized: of repeating itself lifelessly, of separating itself from the existential. It is often exercised with formal perfection where there is no longer any involvement. Rhetoric can become defense: an elegant way...

Meditation- altering our quality of being

Jun 3, 2025 |

"Contrary to popular belief, meditation does not involve distancing oneself from life or retreating into contemplation in the classical sense. It is a common mistake to reduce it to a tool for calming the nerves, lowering blood pressure, or balancing emotions. Its function is not limited to alleviating anxiety; its scope is more significant: it alters the very structure of our relationship with time, the body, action, and experiences. It does not oppose what we do, although it does destabilize...

Perfectionism

Jun 2, 2025 |

"Perfectionism, with its appearance of virtue and rhetoric of self-improvement, often functions as a device of concealment. Under the promise of excellence, it installs a logic of surveillance that, instead of stimulating development, only simulates it. Far from promoting authentic transformation, it imposes an idealized image that turns life into a permanent performance. Authenticity and sincerity, in this context, become a threat; spontaneity, a risk to be avoided. The individual does not...

Thinking, listening and the true dialogue

Jun 2, 2025 |

“One of the most sophisticated ways of thinking is listening, provided that it is not confused with ”obeying." It is not enough just to lend an ear; it is necessary to resist the temptation to surrender to the voice of another simply because it sounds firm, confident, or, worse still, laden with prestige. Never forget that authority, on its own, is not an argument. Not even when the speaker speaks with the confidence that comes from experience or the charisma that engenders recognition. Quite...

Consider me an artist

Jun 1, 2025 |

"If I were forced to define myself, I would timidly ask to be considered an artist. Not out of vanity, but because it is there, on the margins of existence, where I find my place. One of those who walk without haste, who talk to stones, who look at the clouds as if they could understand them. One of those who talk to and listen to the stars, not to decipher them, but because they sense that they too have something to say. I paint flowers not to explain them, but to accompany them in their...

Awakening

Jun 1, 2025 |

The term “awakening” is often used, although what it implies is rarely examined. Wherever the will acts, a figure has already been formed. And every figure, even the most subtle, remains trapped in the dream. If something deserves that name, it cannot be attributed to anyone. It cannot be narrated. For this reason, intense experiences—visions, ecstasy, altered states—are often more distraction than revelation. The essential does not need to be highlighted. It was already there, without being...

The asymmetry between demand and reception

May 31, 2025 |

"In those domains where human expression is not limited to the spontaneous act of showing, but seeks to embody itself in a form that resists the erosion of time—a form capable of sustaining the tension between origin and permanence, between impulse and elaboration—a well-known paradox imposes itself with disturbing regularity: the higher the degree of elaboration of a work, the smaller its audience tends to be. This is not a cultural whim or a statistical anomaly, much less a curse...

The third option…

May 31, 2025 |

"With the persistence of a moral slogan and the liturgy of a secular mantra, the idea that we must follow our hearts has been established. This formula—repeated tirelessly in self-help speeches, therapeutic rhetoric, and opportunistic spiritualities—has managed to impose itself as an existential imperative. It presupposes that the heart carries a truth that predates language, immune to the contamination of calculation and the suspicion of thought. Affection is presented as a refuge for what is...

The search for truth

May 31, 2025 |

"The search for truth is much more than intellectual refinement or a luxury for the idle mind. It is a rupture, a decision that, once made, breaks with conventional forms of comfort, with the inertia of habit, and with the urge to stay safe. It is not about achieving balance, inner well-being, or even feeling more lucid. It is simply about observing. But observing, in this sense, is not comforting. It disarms. It does not organize what has been experienced; it calls it into question. The...

That afternoon…

May 31, 2025 |

That afternoon, thick and dull, descended on Haifa with the impersonality of something that does not want to announce itself. There were no signs in the sky, no resonance in the body. Nothing in the atmosphere suggested what was coming, although perhaps it would be more accurate to say: what was ceasing to resist. I sat down to meditate, as I had done so many times before, without a goal, without urgency, without expecting anything. The gesture was repeated with the monotony of a habit now...

The pause

May 30, 2025 |

"There are phenomena whose uniqueness lies precisely in their ability not to show themselves. They do not announce themselves with fanfare, they do not demand attention. Their appearance, if one can speak of appearance, does not obey the logic of the exceptional, but rather that of the unnoticed. They do not present themselves as experiences in the usual sense: they are not added to the repertoire of experiences that can be remembered, classified, or attributed to a subject. They are inscribed...

A smile, a joke, a laughter

May 30, 2025 |

"There is a smile that does not come from wit or consolation. It is not mockery or ironic evasion. It is a sober, lucid smile that bursts forth when the tension of a search that never made sense subsides. It does not signal a discovery, but rather the unraveling of a fiction, the collapse of an inner fantasy. It is the final gesture of someone who, after trying everything, understands that the journey was unnecessary and that the destination was always right under their feet. This gesture does...

The occurrence of the sacred

May 30, 2025 |

"The occurrence of the sacred does not obey fixed locations. It is not distributed according to hierarchies or established by law or decree. It often bursts forth discreetly. It does not require grand gestures, but rather spaces of reception. A phrase that resists interpretive closure, a disarming glance, a silence that imposes itself without intention. In such moments, no certainty is imposed: what emerges is a more precise question. The sacred offers no solutions. It unsettles, it does not...

Market-adapted spirituality

May 29, 2025 |

"When spirituality becomes a business, it is not only its content that is lost, nor even a practice consistent with its origins: the breath that sustained it as an unconditional experience is extinguished. What disappears is not a doctrine, a technique, a methodology, or a ritual, but a form of presence that cannot be quantified: an attention that does not expect anything in return, a relationship without preconditions, a word spoken without an agenda. Where the bond between master and...

Breaking free from the spell of waiting

May 29, 2025 |

"By waiting so long, you haven't realized that you've let life pass you by. Not because of inertia, or lack of desire or enthusiasm, but because of a hope that stubbornly revolved around what was not yet. In the name of something more promising, more beautiful, more delicious, more elevated, more complete, more perfect, you ignored the only thing that never repeats itself: this moment. You wanted to become, forgetting that you already were. While you projected yourself toward an ideal version...

The Metaphysics of “God Exists”

May 28, 2025 |

"Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the early thinkers associated with analytical philosophy of language did not merely delimit an area of work within contemporary thought. They modified the very coordinates that structure the relationship between thought, language, and truth. Their project, anchored in the aspiration for rigor characteristic of the formal sciences, stripped language of all psychological depth, of any expressive or emotional connotation. They reconfigured it as a system...

The religion to come

May 28, 2025 |

"There is no higher religion than a fully lived conscience. However, we remain surrounded by doctrinal systems, creeds, rites, ceremonies, and names that attempt to replace what can only spring from authentic inner transformation. Religiosity is not reduced to the repetition of scriptures, attendance at temples, or the recitation of formulas. In its most genuine form, it consists of a way of being in the world: touching reality with reverence, looking with discernment, loving with integrity....

Beyond the opposites…

May 27, 2025 |

"mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ āgamāpāyino 'nityās tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata “O son of Kuntī, the temporary appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, is like the appearance and disappearance of the seasons of winter and summer. All this has its origin in the perception of the senses, O son of Bharata, and one should learn to tolerate it without being disturbed.” (Bhagavad Gita 2:14) The happiness that is commonly pursued is nothing more...

The concept of time according to Heidegger

May 27, 2025 |

“The concept of temporality in Heidegger, as interpreted by Derrida, is opposed to the chronological conception of time, characterized by its uniformity, measurability, and linearity. This chronological time, which Heidegger calls ”middle time" (mittlere Zeit), shapes the ordinary experience of time as a neutral succession of measurable instants. This representation presupposes a homogeneous continuity, available for quantification and external to the subject. In contrast, Heideggerian...

My Sanatana Dharma

May 24, 2025 |

"My Sanatana Dharma does not require abandoning its Vedic matrix to affirm that the Avatar has already manifested. Such a manifestation does not emerge from the Hellenistic imagination or the Roman imperial heritage. Instead, it finds its incarnation in Adon Yeshua, who does not come from a doctrinal rupture, but from a hermeneutical continuity inscribed in the heart of Judaism. Yeshua is born from the Torah, formed in the Talmud, ignited by Hasidic spirituality, and revealed in the esoteric...

Surrender

May 24, 2025 |

“Genuine contact with existence, a true encounter with life, is only possible when all forms of resistance cease. Only total surrender allows for such an encounter. As long as there is ”someone" who clings, who attaches, who calculates, or who defends, ultimate reality remains hidden. This is not a partial renunciation, nor is it a technique aimed at personal development. Authentic surrender implies the complete cessation of the “I” that desires, the ‘I’ that fears, the “I” that conceives...

Awakening

May 24, 2025 |

"Meditation does not involve doing, achieving, or transforming. From the perspective of Advaita Vedānta, there is no distance between the subject who meditates and what is sought through practice. There is no journey, since there is no duality: what is, is already present. Silence is not conquered; it manifests spontaneously when the search ceases, when the will to change stops completely. The mind, by its very nature, remains in motion: it names, discriminates, anticipates. It seeks to...

Friendship and companionship

May 24, 2025 |

"Friendship, far from being reduced to a spontaneous affinity or mutual attraction of temperaments, constitutes a relational experience that engages fundamental structures of the psyche. From a psychoanalytic perspective, it involves not only conscious bonds, but also unconscious displacements that shape its complexity. Sigmund Freud, in Zur Einführung des Narzißmus (1914), argues that the beloved object—and by analogy, the friend—can constitute a projection of the ideal self. In this sense,...

Love is not perfect

May 24, 2025 |

"The desire for excellence has been carefully instilled from an early age as part of an educational model focused on competence, efficiency, and external recognition. We are taught that only those who excel deserve attention, and that the value of an action, or even of a person, is determined by its results. As a result, perfection becomes an unquestionable ideal, while success appears as its visible manifestation. However, this success is unstable, as the pleasure it brings depends on the...

Beyond the language

May 23, 2025 |

Derrida focuses his analysis on Aristotle's Perì Hermēneías, a treatise that has been the subject of sustained attention in our research. In this text, Aristotle formulates a theory of meaning that establishes a double representational relationship: vocal sounds are signs of psychic states, while written words refer to those sounds. This hierarchy, whose structure seems evident, is based on a supposed essential relationship between voice and soul, which gives oral language ontological...

Human beings are not data…

May 23, 2025 |

"There are names that remain in the collective memory. When a life is taken by openly condemned ideologies, the media evokes that name, reconstructs their biography, and displays their face. Tributes are organized, public statements proliferate, and society transforms that loss into a shared symbol of mourning and denunciation. Such an act is rightly described as murder, a form of terror, or a crime against humanity. However, there are other lives cut short that receive no mention. There are...

The genuine spiritual life

May 22, 2025 |

"Spiritual life, when experienced authentically, constitutes an inner journey, silent and irreducible to external models. Every genuine search begins in the deepest recesses of the soul, where the voices of social approval and the murmur of established formulas cease. However, it is not uncommon for this original impulse toward inner transformation to be absorbed by the institutional dynamics of religious life in community. Far from fostering freedom of spirit, such environments often impose a...

Genuine love

May 22, 2025 |

"Among the experiences that shape the inner life of human beings, there is one that reveals with singular intensity the ontological measure of their condition: love. However, it is rarely understood in its essential structure. It is often reduced, conditioned, limited, or circumscribed to a particular figure: a face, a bond, a concrete presence. In this way, love is denatured and confused with emotional dependence, thus losing its highest dignity. Authentic love does not arise because of...

Solitary thinking

May 22, 2025 |

"When the aspiration is to reach a wide audience, it is necessary to recognize that truth, in its entirety, does not lend itself easily to that end. Its structure demands to be stripped down, reduced, reformulated in terms that prioritize immediacy, emotion, or familiarity, to the point of diluting its original density. Where discourse abandons nuance, critical rigor, or reflective complexity, it tends to find a wider audience, albeit at the cost of a substantial loss of fidelity to its...

The autonomy of thinking

May 21, 2025 |

"This statement is not merely a rhetorical device, but a warning that directly challenges the autonomy of the thinking subject. It raises the question of whether self-awareness manages to assert its sovereignty or whether, through inertia or critical negligence, it delegates its capacity for judgment to external structures. The omission of rational examination of one's own beliefs opens the door to a form of intellectual servitude in which consciousness operates as a mere echo of...

Being yourself

May 21, 2025 |

"Don't be afraid to be different, not on a whim, but out of loyalty to what makes you who you are. What disorients us is not the complexity of the world, but the attempt to adapt to models that do not belong to us. Alienation begins when we sacrifice our uniqueness for approval. As Kierkegaard warned, ‘the greatest despair is not wanting to be oneself.’ Be different because no one who has transformed history was a copy or an imitation. From Socrates to Simone Weil, those who thought against...

Are you enlightened?’

May 21, 2025 |

"Sometimes I am asked a question that, although understandable, rests on a fundamental misunderstanding: ‘Are you enlightened?’ or ‘Are you an enlightened person?’ The question presupposes that enlightenment is a state that can be possessed by a subject, like someone who obtains a merit or reaches a higher category. However, if we accept the term “enlightenment,” it should be understood not as a personal achievement, but as radical disillusionment. It is not an inner achievement that the...

Authenticity

May 21, 2025 |

"There is a moment—not always obvious, but decisive—when the compulsion to accumulate weakens and the need to understand imposes itself with silent force. The desire remains, but its orientation is transformed. It ceases to be driven by quantity and begins to seek direction. It no longer aspires to excess, but to truth. This vital inflection does not usually manifest itself with spectacular gestures or fireworks. It bursts into the ordinary: into the emptiness that follows a goal achieved,...

Ideologies and “ism”s

May 21, 2025 |

"I do not accept ideologies, whatever ‘ism’ they may be and whatever they may be called, because any thought that is confined to a doctrinal system abdicates its most demanding task: to understand without distorting and to judge without resorting to automatic patterns. All ideology operates through a conceptual reductionism that impoverishes the complexity of reality. In its quest for coherence, it simplifies the multiple and eliminates what does not fit into its pre-existing categories....

The meaning of life…

May 21, 2025 |

“Life is not an object; it is a process. It is not ”something" that can be possessed, nor is it a goal to be achieved. It does not present itself as a fixed point on the horizon of existence, nor as an achievement attainable through will or calculation. Life manifests itself in the flow of time, moment by moment, like a flower that opens without witnesses, like a sky that requires no interpretation. To try to capture it or take possession of it is to exclude oneself from its unfolding. The...

The bond between men and women

May 20, 2025 |

"The bond between men and women cannot be properly understood if it is reduced to emotional factors, cultural conditioning, or functional patterns. At its root, it refers to an ontological structure from which human beings are constituted as living relationships. Such a relationship is not generated by aggregation, nor is it explained by utility. Rather, it manifests a fundamental openness to otherness, inscribed in the very condition of being a person. Edith Stein warned that sexual...

Remaining available

May 20, 2025 |

"Meditation does not admit gradations, scales, or hierarchical categories. It is not a sequential process or a step-by-step ascent, as if climbing rungs on a linear ladder. Its unfolding does not respond to a quantifiable progression, since its essential core—enlightenment—cannot be measured. Its presence cannot be measured out: either it has been revealed, or it remains absent. Its quality is absolute, not relative. A single clear vision is enough to radically alter the structure of...

Nature is sufficient

May 19, 2025 |

"There is no need to rush the process or anticipate its outcome. The essential is already within you. You are not incomplete: you are potential waiting to be realized, not a deficit to be corrected. The seed does not design the tree it will become. Its entire future morphology—leaves, flowers, fruits—is contained in its original architecture. It does not project: it allows the unfolding to happen. Likewise, human beings do not construct their destiny through individual will, but rather...

Integrating interiority and relationship

May 19, 2025 |

"In certain states of meditative contemplation, the impulse to withdraw from the world emerges. This movement does not express escape, but rather the need to confront one's own consciousness without external interference. The inclination toward solitude is not a mistake. It is misleading to interpret it as a rejection of others or as a sign of opposition between connection and interiority. Radical autonomy has no basis. Subjectivity is always constituted in reference to others: we are born...

The loneliness of Love

May 19, 2025 |

"There is a loneliness that comes from heartbreak, emptiness, distance, loss, absence, or abandonment. But there is another, more subtle and paradoxical kind that arises at the very heart of true love. One can be deeply in love and still experience a loneliness that is not a lack, but a fulfillment. This loneliness is not the absence of another, but the presence of oneself. When love reaches a certain depth, it does not become fusion or possession. It transforms into a wide, silent, and living...

True poverty and true wealth

May 18, 2025 |

"We live in a world where the accumulation of possessions has come to symbolize the fullness of life. Society has taught us that external wealth is synonymous with success, dignity, respect, and fulfillment. But more and more people are discovering, sometimes after long years of effort and sacrifice, that no palace can replace the peace that can only be built internally. Bank accounts can grow without measure, but if the soul remains barren, the feeling of emptiness becomes unbearable. There...

I stand with the victims

May 18, 2025 |

"I am not on either side; I am with the victims. Not because I ignore the facts, but because the suffering of innocent people transcends all strategy and political interests. In every war, each side has arguments and justifications that legitimize its actions. But no argument justifies the death of children and young people, the premature aging of civilians, or the turning of bodies into fields of geopolitical calculation. I choose not to be part of those calculations. Refusing to take sides...

Being love

May 17, 2025 |

"Love is not one, nor does it have a single form. There are loves that bind and loves that liberate. There are loves that ask and loves that give. At its lowest levels, love is a desire for possession, an impulse disguised as affection, a power struggle covered with soft words. That is why many people consider love to be suffering. But love can also be different when it is not directed at someone. When it does not seek control or reward, when it is no longer a relationship but a presence, it...

Wars and conflicts

May 17, 2025 |

"Man has lived too long under the shadow of war. Gaza, Ukraine, and so many other names, past and present, are only the visible coordinates of a much older violence that dwells in the divided, fractured soul of human beings. It is not geography that causes wars; it is fragmented inner lives, consciences torn apart by unresolved conflicts, that turn the world into a battlefield. Wherever there is an individual in conflict with themselves, there is already a seed of collective destruction. It is...

The true wisdom

May 17, 2025 |

"Be wary of anyone who claims to have found the truth and invites followers to spread it. Be wary of anyone who seeks to teach, promote, sell, or rent truths as if they were commodities. Where someone proclaims themselves the guardian of the absolute, the corruption of the ability to question has already begun. Truth is born of seeking, not of imposition. Let no one sell you certainty in exchange for obedience. True wisdom is not transmitted as a slogan; it is cultivated in inner silence, in...

The question

May 17, 2025 |

“There is no rigid boundary between faith and skepticism. No conviction, no ”ism," no belief or disbelief is held without cracks, and no one lives their entire life within a single category. There are believers who, in the darkness of suffering, doubt everything. And there are atheists who, faced with the mystery of birth or death, remain silent with deep respect and reverence. The labels that separate humans into absolute blocks are convenient simplifications, but they are inaccurate. They do...

The only real end you can reach

May 17, 2025 |

"Don't dwell on what was, or rush ahead to what is not yet. Nothing can truly be lived outside the present moment. The past is over, gone; it cannot be changed or inhabited. The future, by its very nature, remains inaccessible; it is not yet. To live anchored in memory or projected into anticipation is to inhabit a realm without ontological reality. Neither memories nor conjectures constitute an effective present. Those who cling to what has already happened or worry about what might come...

The true strength

May 16, 2025 |

"We live in a time when public scrutiny has become increasingly voracious. On social media and in everyday conversations, a persistent tendency is evident: observing the mistakes of others with exaggerated attention. Behaviors are analyzed, faults are recorded, and flaws are disseminated as if exposing others' shortcomings contributes to the common good. But what often lies behind this habit is not a sincere desire to correct or help, but rather an unresolved need within the critic. There are...

Walking through your shadows

May 16, 2025 |

"My dear friend, it is impossible to erase the past, but it can learn to stay in its place. Regrets are not punishments, they are signs. They come with the face of what you didn't do or with the shadow of what you did wrong, but they are not there to torture you. They appear to remind you that you have changed, that you have grown, that you have evolved, that there is a consciousness within you that no longer lies dormant. The pain they cause does not demand condemnation, it asks for...

Embracing solitude

May 16, 2025 |

"Solitude is not a fault, absence, or lack; it is presence. It is the presence of oneself, without mediators, without shortcuts, without masks or disguises. It is not isolation, but a silent communion with who we are when no one is watching us. Being alone is not turning away from the world; it is returning to the center from where one can contemplate the world without begging for belonging. As Pascal wrote: ‘All of man's unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room’. The...

There is no disciple or master

May 15, 2025 |

"It has been more than 15 years since I decided not to accept new monastic disciples. And not because I reject company, nor because I have lost the love of sharing. Nor because I deny the value of transmission. If today I stand before that door that others call disciple, it is not out of disdain, but out of a kind of understanding that no longer fits that bond. Many years ago, I wanted to teach. Not to demonstrate knowledge, but to share a way of seeing. In my initial enthusiasm, I imagined...

This moment

May 15, 2025 |

"It begins as a whisper that does not come from outside. At first, there is nothing spectacular or extraordinary. There are footsteps, breathing, a cup of tea, the wind brushing against your face, your back feeling the back of the chair. There is no sudden vision or fireworks. The morning is like any other. The body moves through the world like a fish in water: unaware of limits, never suspecting for a moment that what it seeks has always been and always will be here. It is not a matter of...

There is no path

May 15, 2025 |

"Walking implies creating. It is not about advancing along a marked path, nor discovering a route already laid out by others. The realization of the highest truth is not inherited, nor is it achieved by reproducing the itineraries of others. Each person is called to chart their own course, with uncertainty as their constant companion and fidelity to themselves as their only guide. There are no maps or signs. No footprint guarantees the direction. Each step inaugurates a terrain that does not...

May 15, 2025 |

"I remember that gray afternoon in Haifa in 1996. The sky was overcast. The sunset was effortlessly making its way across the sky. I sat down, as I did every day, to meditate, without intention, without expectation, without any goal. There was no purpose behind the gesture, no hidden desire to achieve anything. I was just there, sitting, without needing to understand why. The silence was no different from other days. But this time something changed without changing. It was not caused by...

The dignity of being oneself.

May 15, 2025 |

"I am not one to forbid anyone from considering themselves my disciple, just as I am not one to prevent others from rejecting me. I hold no titles, nor do I grant permissions or credentials. I neither approve nor disapprove. I do not name myself, defend myself, withdraw, or promote myself. I am where I am—without center, without edge—and whatever anyone does with my name, my words, or my image belongs to the world, not to me. Some present themselves as disciples, with respect, affection, and...

Life with dignity

May 14, 2025 |

"There will come a time in your life when, looking back on your journey, you will not see a succession of triumphs, but rather firm and rational decisions. You will understand that your perseverance was not impulsive or romantic, but deliberate and conscious. In circumstances where giving up seemed logical, you chose to continue. And in doing so, you affirmed your will as the guiding principle of your life. It was not chance that sustained you, but your ability to persevere in what was right,...

Meditation

May 14, 2025 |

"Meditation is not thinking, acting, or producing. It is inhabiting the present with undivided attention. There is no goal; a way of being is awakened. In the words of the Buddha: Atta hi attano natho ko hi natho paro siya attana hi sudantena natham labhati dullabham. “One is, in fact, one's own refuge; how can others be a refuge for one?” (cf. Dhammapada, 160) Meditation, when properly understood, adds nothing. It eliminates the superfluous until it reveals the essential: the lucid stillness...

Disappointment

May 13, 2025 |

"Disappointment is not an anomaly: it is a verification. When someone lets us down, they do not destroy something solid; they undo a construction that we ourselves had inflated. What disappoints us is what we projected, not what was there. We believe we have been betrayed, but often it is we who took for granted what was never promised. Disappointment reveals more than it hurts. And in that revelation there is a possibility of clarity. Marcus Aurelius, emperor and Stoic philosopher, wrote:...

Possibilities

May 12, 2025 |

“Human beings are possibilities. This thesis, formulated by Jean-Paul Sartre, is not a metaphysical slogan, but an existential statement that commits the entirety of concrete life. We are not born with an established essence or a predetermined destiny: we become what we do with what we have been given. Existing, in this context, does not simply mean being in the world, but being called upon to shape ourselves in it through decisions that no structure can replace. The freedom imposed on us is...

Voices and oppinions

May 12, 2025 |

“Other people's opinions are like an echo: they sound loud, but they don't always say anything true. Listening to them carefully can be sensible; living to please them can be destructive. Inner freedom begins when we stop asking the world for permission to be who we are. Other people's voices—even well-intentioned ones—rarely know the whole story behind our decisions. They speak from their limitations, project their fears, repeat what they have heard. In many cases, they are not talking about...

Freedom

May 12, 2025 |

“Freedom is not inherited, taught, learned, received, or granted: it is conquered. It is not an external possession, but the result of an internal process that requires clarity, courage, and the ability to give things up. It does not consist of satisfying arbitrary desires or mental demands, but of aligning one's will with what deserves to be desired. It is not defined by the absence of limits, but by the conscious recognition of those that protect our integrity. Epictetus, born a slave and...

The art of work

May 11, 2025 |

“There are those who work waiting for the reward: money, recognition, prestige. There are those who calculate every effort as an investment, every word as a strategy, every step as a debt to be collected. But there are also others. Those who do not seek applause or medals. Those who do their work with the same dedication, whether or not anyone is watching. They work for love. Not out of fear. Not out of ambition. Out of inspiration. Working for love is not naive romanticism. It is the highest...

The journey

May 11, 2025 |

“The essential things in life are not found in the goal, which is always distant or fleeting, but in the path that, step by step, forces us to transform ourselves. The goal may grant a moment of glory, but it is the journey that reveals us, challenges us, and shapes us relentlessly. It is in this unpredictable progress that the most fertile questions, the most meaningful encounters, and the lessons that no conquest can offer are hidden. We do not walk to accumulate victories, but to...

Belonging

May 10, 2025 |

“We believe we are the children of those who gave us a name, a home, an education, and a language. However, what begets us is not individuals, but a broader process that transcends family ties. Nature is not an external entity to which we occasionally return. It is the constant source of our existence, the condition that makes every breath, gesture, and thought possible. Our parents pass on a specific history to us, but the body, sensitivity, and intelligence we receive spring from a source...

Wisdom

May 10, 2025 |

“Wisdom does not consist in knowing much. It is not attained by accumulating data, quoting theories with agility, or counting books read. It is not attained by memorizing names and dates. Those who reduce knowledge to a memorized repertoire confuse quantity with discernment. Knowing impresses, understanding transforms. The value of knowledge does not lie in its volume, but in the clarity with which the essential is distinguished from the incidental. Wisdom does not require encompassing...

Separation with dignity

May 8, 2025 |

“When someone clearly expresses that they do not wish to continue a relationship, the most sensible thing to do is to accept that decision with dignity. It is not about denying the inevitable pain, but about preventing insistence from compromising one's integrity. Every breakup requires a process of elaboration that may include therapeutic or emotional support, but it must be based, above all, on self-respect. Losing the love of another is painful; losing self-love as well is a form of inner...

Sexuality and desire

May 7, 2025 |

“In a contemporary society marked by the systematic repression of sexuality, by conceptual confusion, ignorance, neurotic guilt, and frequent ideological instrumentalization, there is a pressing need to reconsider it rigorously. It is not appropriate to foster antagonism between the sexes or accumulate identity labels, but rather to understand sexuality as an integral dimension that involves the body, consciousness, and intersubjective relationships. This task cannot be accomplished through...

Reflections on the transformation of the message of Jesus of Nazareth

May 6, 2025 |

“Over time, critical reflection on the transformation of the message of Jesus of Nazareth through various historical processes following his death has taken on special relevance. This transformation culminated in the consolidation of an ecclesiastical institution associated with imperial power, whose features differed considerably from the original message preached by Jesus in Palestine. The founding of Christianity cannot be attributed to the authorities who promoted his condemnation,...

The wise and society

May 6, 2025 |

"Throughout history, great masters have not been persecuted despite their wisdom, but because of it. Their teaching questions the principle on which social existence is organized: the centrality of the self as the axis of meaning and vital orientation. Where the wise propose the dissolution of the ego, society reacts with hostility, aggression, and violence, for its very structure is a manifestation of the collective ego in institutional form. The genuine master does not reinforce the fictions...

Enlightenment

May 5, 2025 |

“Enlightenment is the most essential thing in human life, not because it replaces the rest of experience, but because it gives meaning to every aspect of it. Awakening is not a rarity reserved for those who renounce the world, nor is it an experience confined to the extraordinary. It is a latent possibility in everyday actions, in the way we relate to each other, in the way we speak or remain silent. Although awakening is fundamental, not every word should revolve around it explicitly....

The meaning of life

May 5, 2025 |

“The question of the meaning of life does not arise when everything is going well, but when certainties collapse and the future becomes opaque. It is not a technical or psychological problem: it is an existential demand that cuts across cultures and eras. Living is not about surviving or accumulating experiences, but about understanding where one is headed and why it is worth continuing. For Socrates, thinking about life was the first duty of anyone who did not want to live like an automaton....

Love

May 5, 2025 |

“Love is not a passing emotional state or a spontaneous impulse. It is a form of knowledge that allows us to discover what remains hidden in ordinary experience. To love is not to possess, but to understand without needing to control. In this attentive openness, one of the highest capacities of human beings is revealed: the ability to shift the focus away from our own interests and recognize in others an irreducible presence. In The Symposium, Plato defines love as the movement of the soul...

Letting go

May 4, 2025 |

“Every relationship leaves a mark. Some offered us affection; others challenged us with limits. Even those who hurt us, as Epictetus taught, offered us the opportunity to test our ability to respond with dignity. Buddha maintained that “hatred does not cease with hatred, but with love.” And Marcus Aurelius warned that nothing can harm us as much as our own reactions to what happens to us. To remember with resentment is to fix one's consciousness on a wound that becomes chronic. Resentment...

Staying calm in the face of provocation

May 4, 2025 |

“Staying calm in the face of provocation is not easy. It is not about coldness or indifference, but about stopping, observing and choosing carefully before acting. In a society that rewards speed, not reacting is often interpreted as weakness. From an early age we are taught that to remain silent is to give in, that not to respond is to lose. But not everything deserves a response. There are arguments that only fuel useless tensions. Many conflicts arise from the need to impose or vent...

Thinking

May 4, 2025 |

"Socrates did not evade his sentence, but he never allowed the polis to think for him. Marcus Aurelius, at the height of his power, wrote to remind himself that what is essential does not depend on external domination. Jesus proclaimed that truth sets us free, and he lived without subjecting his message to the interests of the powerful. Throughout history, great masters and sages have agreed on one central assertion: freedom is not conquered outside, but within. Today, the mechanisms of the...

Forgiveness

May 2, 2025 |

“Holding on to resentment is a subtle form of slavery. Those who live tied to past grievances and injustices, prisoners of yesterday, give up their present and weaken their future. Obviously, neither resentment nor bitterness repairs what happened or punishes those who hurt us. It only prolongs the damage, but now from within. Remembering does not mean reliving. Memory is for learning, not for reopening wounds. There is dignity in letting go of what cannot be changed. Forgiving is not...

Children

May 2, 2025 |

“Sons and daughters do not belong to us. They are not a projection of our desires or an extension of our frustrations. They are unique and irreplaceable individuals with the right to write their own story. By giving them life, we do not acquire authority over their destiny. We are only the means through which nature repeats and renews itself. Life was not given to us to be possessed, but to be continued. Raising children is not molding them in our own image, but accompanying them with respect...

Envy

May 2, 2025 |

“Authentic talent and true success do not only generate admiration or inspiration. They also awaken resistance, jealousy, envy, and hostility. This reaction is not accidental; it is inherent in the human condition. Because those who excel unintentionally expose the shortcomings and failures of others. Not everyone tolerates this with humility. Some project their frustration onto those who advance, rather than onto their own limitations. Don't expect only universal gratitude for your efforts....

A path for one

Apr 29, 2025 |

“More than a decade ago, I understood something that irreversibly transformed my conception of existence. Spirituality, the authentic inner calling, is not a path that can be traveled in a group. It is not a collective project or an adherence to communities, rituals, or organized societies. The search for the spirit is strictly intimate, silent, and individual. It is a journey to be traveled alone. Neither the recognition of others nor constant company allow one to advance beyond one's own...

Pursuing a truly meaningful goal

Apr 23, 2025 |

“Pursuing a truly meaningful goal has never been an easy task. Any worthwhile endeavor requires perseverance, discipline, and a determination that can withstand adversity. It is common for unexpected difficulties to arise during the process, for motivation to wane, or for the meaning of the path taken to be questioned. At such times, giving up may seem like a reasonable option. However, it is precisely in these circumstances that the authenticity of one's commitment to a personal project is...

Young spirit

Apr 23, 2025 |

“Even though the years go by, we never quite get used to old age. Not because we deny the passage of time, but because our spirit still refuses to give up. The strength that sustains us does not come from the body, but from the desire that still drives us toward what we want to achieve. Old people are not those who accumulate years, but those who live on memories. Those who make nostalgia their only home, who settle in the past and extinguish tomorrow, are the ones who grow old. As long as we...

The Holy Father

Apr 22, 2025 |

“The Holy Father has passed away. With his departure, a chapter closes that, like all public figures of great influence, has sparked diverse reactions. Some venerate him, remember him with gratitude, and celebrate his spiritual, moral, and institutional legacy. Others, however, criticize him harshly, question his decisions, or doubt his influence. This tension is neither exceptional nor surprising. History does not record a single person who has been unanimously accepted. All leadership, no...

Dreaming

Apr 21, 2025 |

“Those who stop dreaming do not protect themselves from failure; they exile themselves from their potential.” Prabhuji

Perseverance

Apr 21, 2025 |

“No dream worth having comes without resistance. No one builds what they love without going through moments of doubt, fatigue, or failure. But failure does not define you: your decision to get back up does. Sometimes it seems easier to give up. To let it go. To accept that it wasn't the right time, that it wasn't for you. And yet, that feeling that calls you, that won't leave you alone and resists being forgotten, isn't there by chance. That desire is a form of truth. It's a sign that your...

Assuming responsability

Apr 16, 2025 |

“Playing the victim is a subtle form of evasion that drains psychic energy and diminishes the capacity for action. It is a tacit renunciation of responsibility for one's own existence, transferring the cause of everything that happens to the external environment. Those who adopt this position settle into a passive wait: for others to change, for the past to be rectified or for the future to resolve what still hurts. None of these expectations materializes until an inner decision is made that...

Being yourself

Apr 16, 2025 |

"Sometimes it happens: no matter how hard you try, no matter how much effort you put into fitting in, there are places that simply don't welcome you, don't accept you. People who don't understand you. Groups where you feel like you don't belong. And that hurts. Rejection, when it comes from outside, tends to hit hard inside. But there's something important to remember: not all places that exclude you are places you need to be. Not every group that rejects you is a group you should belong to....

There is still time to make it worthwhile!

Apr 15, 2025 |

“Life is, above all, a unique possibility. Each dawn implies a silent renewal that confirms that we are still present, breathing and capable of choosing. Not everyone has been given this day. Recognizing that simple fact can change the way we relate to the everyday. Even when the path is uncertain or arduous, life retains its value. Even when order is diluted or events seem contradictory, there is always room for action and for giving new meaning. Each day is an opportunity concealed by...

To love from a place of freedom

Apr 15, 2025 |

“Healthy love doesn't need chains, it needs roots. Deep roots that sink into trust, into mutual understanding, into respect for individuality. Because only when there is freedom can love grow without fear, without pressure, without wear and tear. It is not about holding on to someone at all costs, but about cultivating a connection so authentic that the choice to stay together is renewed every day. Not out of obligation, but out of desire. Not out of dependence, but out of choice. Because when...

Emotional freedom begins here

Apr 15, 2025 |

“During our youth, our view of the world tends to be open, trusting and generous. We approach others with a noble and innocent disposition. At that time, we learn to love unconditionally, to forgive easily and to justify the behavior of others with explanations that soften the damage. It's natural: we are learning to live, to coexist, to form bonds. We allow many people to cross the threshold of our lives without suspicion, without filters. We trust because we still don't understand the...

Envy

Apr 14, 2025 |

“Friends, you should know that envy does not arise because someone wants something you have. It arises when your progress exposes the inaction, the mediocrity, the incapacity of those around you. It does not bother your dreams, only your progress. Those who prefer to justify their stagnation cannot bear to see that you dared, they do not forgive your audacity. The envious do not aspire to what you have achieved. They hope that you will not achieve it either, because your success highlights...

Nature and being- Western and eastern views

Apr 10, 2025 |

The word 'nature' comes from the Latin natura, a translation of the Greek physis, a term that refers to that which springs forth by itself and persists. Its root, the verb phýō, alludes to arising from an inner principle. For Heraclitus, physis not only means growth, but also the expression of the becoming that permeates all things. Parmenides, on the other hand, defends the immobility of being, placing physis in a tension between permanence and transformation. In Aristotle, this notion is...

The true victory

Apr 9, 2025 |

“We all have a story. A relationship that ended, a job that no longer exists, an academic stage that we left behind. And with those farewells, there often comes a silent but powerful temptation: to speak ill of what was. It seems easy. It seems fair. It seems that saying what didn't work, what hurt, what disappointed, frees us. But in reality, speaking with contempt of what is no longer part of our life does not set us free: it binds us. It makes us prisoners of a badly healed wound. When we...

A real pause

Apr 8, 2025 |

“The more we focus on how things look on the outside, the more the emptiness we carry inside expands. That emptiness arises from the constant pressure to become something that we are not deep down. It is that need to fit into images imposed by desire, in the hope that there, in that form, we will finally feel good. But every time we try, that discomfort returns. It hides in our gestures, it settles in our minds, and it stays there, as close as everything that one cannot leave behind. Sometimes...

Moving on without destroying

Apr 7, 2025 |

“Sometimes, when a relationship comes to an end, what remains is not only silence, but also the temptation to speak. To say, to explain, to justify. And among that tangle of possible words, the easiest option often arises, but also the least dignified: to discredit the other. Today I want to invite you to think about why we should not give in to that impulse. An ex-partner is not an enemy. They were someone with whom we shared time, affection, vulnerability, plans and hopes. To speak ill of...

Backing it up with actions

Apr 7, 2025 |

“Many want to succeed, but give up at the first hurdle. Success dazzles, until you discover its price: to stand out is to expose yourself to judgment, criticism and envy. We know that talking is easy. What is really difficult is to live coherently, to back up with actions what others only repeat in words. Because examples do not need to be announced. They are noticed, they are transmitted. And of course, many will be by your side... as long as you don't make them feel uncomfortable. But as...

Saying goodbye

Apr 6, 2025 |

“There are farewells that shake us. When someone important leaves, we feel that something of us leaves with that person. That emptiness is not filled from one day to the next. It takes time, reflection and an internal process that is not always easy, but it is possible. Feeling is part of being human. There is no way to avoid it. What we can do is learn to manage what we feel better. Of course, losses hurt, but they don't have to trap us. If we can differentiate between what we can change and...

You are the protagonist

Apr 6, 2025 |

“Life has a greatness that often goes unnoticed. To be able to open our eyes, feel the sunlight on our face and the breeze caressing our skin is, in itself, an affirmation of meaning. Every moment we live is a gift, and deserves to be lived with gratitude. What makes life worthwhile is not the absence of problems, but our ability to retain meaning even in the midst of chaos. Every day is a new opportunity, unique and unrepeatable, a possibility that many no longer have. That's why we shouldn't...

Living with purpose.

Apr 5, 2025 |

“Being afraid to start something new and, at the same time, staying in a life that no longer encourages growth or development is a silent form of surrender. What you tolerate ends up defining what you think is possible. But life is not infinite, and time does not wait. If there is still a desire to grow, to ignore these desires is to gradually shut yourself off. Pretending to conform only delays what really matters. Waiting for the perfect moment is to postpone your life, tying it to external...

This is what I want for myself!

Apr 5, 2025 |

“Pursuing a personal goal is a way of saying: this is what I want for myself, and I'm going to go for it. It's a decision that comes from within, an authentic choice. Now, not everything on that path is easy. There will be moments of tiredness, of doubt, of wanting to stop. And it is precisely at those moments that will is tested: when one chooses to continue, even if it is difficult. It is not always external obstacles that slow us down the most. Often, what weighs us down is inside. Fear,...

Apr 4, 2025 |

“Don't just seek to achieve success as an end in itself, but to become a valuable person, whose life has meaning both for himself and for those around” Prabhuji

Turning limits to opportunities

Apr 4, 2025 |

“Successful people tend to behave hastily, urgently, with haste, immediacy, driven by a constant self-demand that can make those around them uncomfortable. This way of acting, often judged as reckless, excessive, dreamy or far from realistic, is precisely the impulse that leads them to go beyond the margins established by the norm. In many social contexts, an ethic of moderation is promoted that extols patience, exalts the moderation of expectations and enshrines realism as the final criterion...

The time is now.

Apr 3, 2025 |

As long as human beings continue to prioritize comfort over their essential needs, there will be no real possibility of transformation. Nor will they be able to develop inwardly if their will is subject to whim and not based on solid convictions. To change implies rigorously reviewing one's own system of priorities, breaking with the inertia of procrastination and seriously assuming the commitment to live according to what is recognized as necessary and possible. A life with direction cannot...

Opportunities

Apr 3, 2025 |

Every time life shakes us up - whether through an external blow or an internal shock - an opportunity opens up. Not just to resist, endure or put up with, but to review how we are interpreting what is happening to us. Sometimes, those difficult moments can become an invitation to start over. And I'm not talking about a radical change that happens only once, as if it were something exceptional. I'm talking about a disposition that we can renew as many times as we are willing to do so. A single...

Move Forward!

Apr 3, 2025 |

Those who hurt others often do not fully perceive the damage they cause. Even without explicit intention, they leave a mark that endures. However, I bear no grudge against those who have hurt me. On the contrary, I bless them with conviction. This is not a rhetorical formula, but a sincere acknowledgement: their presence in my history, although adverse, has contributed to my development. It was in those difficult moments that I learned to pray, and in prayer I discovered guidance and meaning....

I’m still here, I still believe.

Apr 2, 2025 |

I have lived through situations that can shake even the strongest people. I have heard words that, far from consoling me, left me exposed, defenceless. And yes, I have also been betrayed, just at those moments when I was most loyal, most genuine. But, in spite of everything, I am still here. And it is not out of stubbornness or a refusal to acknowledge what hurts. It is because, despite the damage, I still choose to love, to serve, to be present, to inspire and to accompany. In life everything...