« Living in full consciousness: is there anyone in there? Conscious life is normal life, quite simply. But with a permanence of openness and sensitivity. A welcome home for the mundane and the exceptional. Conscious life is life now. Complicated, confused, imperfect, wobbly. We sometimes tend to think that life, the real, the good, only begins once all our problems have been solved. No, she's already here, under our problems and our dissatisfactions. Ready to welcome happiness and grace. I like Master Eckhart's phrase: "God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home... I tell myself that I can take three minutes, three times a day, to check where I am, and to answer yes to the question: "Is there anyone in there? Yes, I'm here. Living. This. Aware... »

« Wonder if you really want to. Really want to watch TV, read this magazine, get some food, wine, coffee? Or a cigarette? Really envy, or just automatism, habit? Or need, because we do not feel well, because we try in this way, without having to think about it, to solve another problem, because we feel sad, bad, alone, in failure, not loved ... Do not necessarily try to solve this problem right away, if you don't have time, or if you feel that you are going to ruminate. But react to prevent him from taking control of this moment of our lives. To say: no, I don't want that. So I'm doing something else. Breathe, walk, for example, in full consciousness. You can't do it enough. »

« The sky, the countryside, the passing rivers, the fountains, the shores, the hills and the mountains, the rain that falls, the wind blowing: all this helps us. To seek more often the healing power of the link to nature. To carry his suffering (or joy) as an offering to nature, to dilute it in it. No doubt confronting us with something eternal, which preceded us and will survive us, but also of which we are a part, of which we come and to which we will return, helps us unconsciously to recalibrate our sufferings. »