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Strengthening democracy
A website on which all small parties are listed. With the option: „If I knew that this party would get over 5%, then I would vote for it“. The page shows for each party what percentage of eligible voters (in absolute terms and in terms of average turnout) would vote for a particular party if…
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And you will love to serve the healing of the world
Significantly fewer women than men die of covid, I read in the news today. Even when the figures are adjusted for previous illnesses in men, this is statistically clear. Because women activate their immune system more quickly (to protect unborn life, it is assumed). Now we have to find out how this happens and we…
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Personal gain gets people on their feet. So it says…
Personal gain gets people on their feet. Or the threat of loss. It won’t work any other way, they say. If I let people live in a lonely, meaningless material environment, then I guess that’s true. What else would they have to strive for? Than for the nothing in nothing, which at least makes them…
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The main thing is that he recognises this!
It does not matter! No matter whether Sadhguru, the institutions of Thích Nhất Hạnh or, for example, the Coreschamanism of Michael Harner: the only thing that matters is that the human being recognises in what horrible desolation he is held by the determining, dominating half-men who plunge the world into fear and suffering. And that…
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The prince or Kohlhaas
He who sets out to exercise worldly power reads Machiavelli or he reads Kleist’s Kohlhaas…. This decides which path he will take….
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Only in – spiritual – poetry lies the true expression of the pure divine.
Only in art. Only in – spiritual – poetry lies the true expression of the pure divine. They are the only unintentional thoughts, expressions of the cosmos. Completely pure and without earthly entanglement. Through the poet. Who is also cosmos. It is pure source. Clear and without any cloudiness. Hölderlin. He was right. Only spiritual…
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In love and infinity
The brother, when I defeat him, I’ll throw him on the mat, eyes twinkling with glee, In loving contest this may but be. And my gaze, laughing cheerfully in triumph, reaches out to him At the same time, my warm hand and immediately draws him to my brotherly bosom. Then he puts his arm around…
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We are part of the cosmos. Our thoughts are part of the cosmos. So the cosmos thinks. Through „us“
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Where do you stand with your life?
Corona is here! Charlotte’s got it. And I’m already feeling strange. Now is the time. And we: un-vac-cina-ted. The question of our own finiteness is in the air. Live, so to speak. Where do I stand? Now, in practice? Could I leave? Am I worried? What worries me, that is: how will it go on…
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Besides food, security and shelter, there is another elementary, all-important basic need: the need for a life of spiritual integrity. Spiritual, soul expression. Wholeness.
Without the satisfaction of this basic spiritual need, our existence has no meaning.