Follow your Dreams

From an early age I experienced, like many people, the desire for something different than the reality that manifests so convincingly all around us. After the necessary attempts to pray to a god that my parents didn't believe in I read, at the age of eleven, a couple of pages in a small book about Zen Buddhism. Even now I still remember the astonishment that my parents had not told me, an eleven year old, that Zen Buddhism existed, it seemed too important to me to be left out of one's upbringing. Slowly I began to understand that apparently there was a state of consciousness that was deeper and more real than the one I found myself in every day, fascinating...

Fast forward; twenty-four years later I still had the same dream, I was only twenty-four years older, I was busy...

At some point I really started to make effort to see through the illusion that we call ‘my life' or even ‘the world'. Every time I could see clearly, when there was an opening through which I could see where I was, where I wanted to go and what would be the next step to make my dream come true, I took decisions that steered my life in the direction I wanted to go in; deeper, more free, happier, not because of something but because of no-thing. And those clear moments were almost always after a retreat with Andrew Cohen, like the one in Tuscany, Italy, this summer.

The dream I had, in which I initially, unknowingly, didn't really believe, became reality bit by bit. There is indeed a deeper dimension that is always accessible for anyone who, more than anything else, wants to become more conscious. It is possible for anyone with some courage and a little bit of humility, to live in accordance with the deepest we have ever experienced, and to do that while we still have time, so others can enjoy us the way we are at our best...

If you want to know more about this life-changing retreat you can click here.