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I now hear more frequently that the young generation of managers is no longer striving for money and power, but is looking for meaning in their work. That sounds very encouraging and nice at first. But I think that what I would find in the „meaning“ drawers of these young managers would no longer seem…

Once being able to look out of the eyes of an infant! Once to be allowed to perceive the world in this unaffectedness. Without a previous: „This is so, this is so and so is the name for it. And the name has its reason in the qualities of what you are looking at and…

„I couldn’t do anything with that word. It doesn’t mean anything to me at all. ‚ Self-effacing.“I am taken aback. I had not expected this by any stretch of the imagination. Ten minutes before I had handed over to a group of people the photocopies of a small perhaps 15-line allegorical story, in whose short…

Everything is taking: Eating animals. But also eating plants. Also breathing. It cannot be separated. Everything is a taking of that what is animate present. Only important is to know this. To say: „Eating animals is wrong. Eating plants is right!“ leads to nothing true. If one is aware that eating animals, eating plants, …breathing….…

Jesus always said, „You healed yourself. Your faith has healed you.“ Not: „The observance of the moral standards and the prevailing code of values that are valid just here have healed you.“ He always kept the mystery as such and did not fob people off, although it would have been easier, with worldly explanations pulled…

Everything dogmatic is worldly. It is far from our soul. No matter how universally recognized and morally high values may be.

One of my friends once told me at the time when my spiritual development was really causing upheavals in my life: „I have no idea what you are doing. But I’ve known you for so long now. And I know you wouldn’t be doing this if there wasn’t something to it.“ He couldn’t have said…

A shaman from Bhutan, whom I respect very much, once said: „Mind and Heart. You in the West always want to reach only the extreme. Either all Mind or all Heart. We live in the middle. “And I think that it is really so. Many suffer from the fact that they give themselves soullessly exclusively…

A few years ago I thought I needed new winter boots. The old ones seemed worn out, they were no longer waterproof and anyway: it just seemed time for a new pair.Beaten six weeks I have then occupied myself on the Internet with winter boots! Six weeks! Somehow something in me was of the opinion,…

I was once invited to a multi-day event of a herbal college, which was also dedicated to the care of the spiritual aspects of life. I had a whole day with the participants and so we also got into conversation during the breaks. We talked about various things and I got a small superficial impression…