What would it be like for every room of the house to have eyes—the eyes of saints, the eyes of the masters, the eyes of the divine ones? To fill your house with altars, with wisdom, to fill your heart with songs, to fill your eyes with love. If you bless everything, everything will become a blessing.

When the pull towards truth takes root within you, it often feels as though one enters a type of spiritual warfare, where the call to harmony is met with an equal pull of chaos. As the light grows, so does the shadow. The key is to have unshakeable faith in the presence of love.

Your calling is what you are called to do, not just in life but in any given moment—and that is what life is, isn't it? A given moment.

Our mind becomes so full of rubbish, day in and day out, accumulating all sorts of nonsense. In your house, you don’t just take the garbage out once; no, it’s a regular occurrence. So it is with our inner landscape. It needs some landscaping; it needs some cleaning.

Action by itself is not enough unless it is consecrated on the altar of being. If we desire a world rooted in love, wisdom, and compassion, then we must embody these qualities ourselves. To receive life as a gift is to realise the gift of life, and the gift of giving is to give it away.

When you reach the top of the mountain, you keep going. The path keeps unfolding—it is the path that never began, the path that has no end. Enlightenment—so what? The world still turns.

Power is just a force. It is a neutral force—latent with potentiality—and its trajectory depends on the intention, the action, the way it is pushed. True power is in the serenity of humility… it is the still presence that moves all things, the timeless silence that sings all songs.

The answer is simple: do nothing. You don't need to channel it, wield it, or use it in any particular way—just let it be. When the storm comes, don't hold on to the sound of thunder. That’s what you do with power.

Ayahuasca does not bring enlightenment. If this assumption were true, many people who drink medicine would be liberated. They are not. Real enlightenment is free of seeking—it is the inward turning to realise that which does not turn, to see that which can not be seen.

Presence is what is healing. You bathe in the cleansing presence that is reflected, but it is your own awareness, it is your own eternal presence that emerges. Listen now: what does not fall is not external to you.

Some people are constantly looking for answers, and they’ll find all sorts of ways to locate and justify them. But even when you “receive” something, it’s not like the entire universe is speaking to you through this one particular thing. Everything is mixed and blended with our personality, our own biases, afflictions, beliefs, experiences, upbringing, conditioning, and all of that.

If you don’t know where you are, who you are, who your allies are, how to walk, how to talk, how to sing, how to listen, or how to discern—what game are you even playing? It can be dangerous to dive into deep, open waters without understanding the territory or having the right equipment and a professional diver with you. Ultimately, the question is not just whether one can drink alone, but whether one understands the depth of what they are engaging with.

For those of us whose first language is English, there's probably going to be a part that feels cheesy with that, and more exotic and mysterious with a different language. The other side of the reality is that our own dialect hits home. It hits the heartstrings in a different way. It resonates and registers with a different part of our brain.

Music, as a spiritual practice, involves crafting the mind and body through the skill of an instrument. This, in turn, leads to the realisation that one's own body and mind are instruments—either to play or be played.

Be wary of those who tell you to kill the ego. Is it really worth a war? Do you really want that blood on your hands?

Some come to the medicine with a list of demands, hoping to gain or improve—but what if there is no separate self to perfect? The path of realisation is not self-enhancement, but seeing through the illusion of self altogether. It begins by relaxing the tightness of identification and listening deeply to what presence reveals.

To be fearless does not mean an absence of fear, to be fearless means simply that you feel fear less. Feeling fear less means that you do feel more. It means more feeling, more allowing, more embracing, more understanding. It means to know that fear is there, that it has a place and in doing so we can count on it to become a wise friend, ally and teacher on the path, which in turn is more welcoming.

The first lesson in both spiritist and shamanic schools is discernment. Discernment is the sentinel that guards the door—it is the art of discrimination that allows us to distinguish this from that, truth from falsity, and light from darkness. Without it, one may be overcome by forces they do not yet understand.

Don’t just seek knowledge; look to know the unknown. Become intimate with the ineffable, make love to the mystery. This is where the teaching comes from—and when the student is ready, the teacher will appear everywhere and in everything.

I appreciate all of the pathways that wind around the forest. I've been exposed to many different leaders, great ayahuasqueros, curanderos, onanyas, kurakas, pajés, madrinhas, padrinhos, and I want to be something of a translator. Sometimes, my role is to be a bridge between this world and that world, this world and the other.