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A former Wall Street banker has swapped the world of finance for religion and become a monk.
Brother Nikanor advises former colleagues to put a jar with soil on their desks to remind them where we are all heading and what matters in life.
As western banks fold into each other like crumpled tickets and commentators portray the current crisis as the last gasp of modern capitalism, Hristo Mishkov, 32, shares the pain - and offers home truths.
His story partly resembles that of Brother Ty, the monk-tycoon protagonist of the 1998 satire 'God is my Broker' by U.S. writers Christopher Buckley and John Tierney - he failed on Wall Street and became a monk.
But 10 years later, the similarities are superficial: the Bulgarian had a successful broking career, does not write self-help manuals and aims to get happy, not rich.
His interest in financial markets began under communism in the 1980s when he and other children created their own play stock exchange in their apartment block's basement in Sofia.
Five years ago, after failing to find happiness in the life he lived, the Christian Orthodox who hadn't practised as a child quit the New York-based market for a dilapidated Bulgarian monastery that once served as a communist labour camp.
Retaining one luxury - a mobile phone, which connects him with both potential donors and former trading colleagues - he has brought the rigour of his broking experience to his faith.
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