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The old farmer
One winter day, while walking in the woods, I passed an area of former forest, about an acre in size and „harvested“ last year, that was close to our house. Nothing reminded me anymore of the beautiful, fairy-tale-like leafy walkway that the bushes and shrubs, heavy with snow, had formed with their branches along this…
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Patience
And so the stories are strung together in which I was humbly allowed to learn from the simple and so clear people, without them knowing that they were my teachers. And so often I was inwardly ashamed of my imperfection and secretly and unspokenly hoped that their secrets could be shared with me. Thomas just…
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Mouthpieces of the gods
One day I was standing in the garden in front of our house, looking at the wall of the house and thinking to myself how I could paint the base of the building, the paint of which was peeling a little here and there. It must have been a day in spring. The time when…
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Jesus and the concept of punishment
I am not a Bible expositor. I am not even a member of the church anymore. So all Bible specialists may forgive, if I tell now hanebüchenen nonsense. It is allowed to me hopefully in my ignorance of the true Bible interpretation. Many years ago I once bought the Bible as an audio book. Again,…
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Falling past oneself
I am very sure that every human being would perceive his soul-sense again, if he would only be released from our busy mind-world for a certain time. It does not have to be the desert. I suggest the lonely hut in the mountains or in the forest. There man should stay. For 4 weeks, 8…
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Friends in Hamburg
Sometimes you should not think so much… I said, „We were with friends in Hamburg last weekend.“ He said, „Oh, you’ve been to the farm.“ I said, „What farm?“ He said, „You have friends in Hamburg who have a farm.“ I said, „No. What makes you think that? The friends we visited live for rent.…
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Alpacas
Sometime later I was talking to someone about wool and alpacas or something like that. I don’t remember exactly. The interlocutor said in any case, „If you then have three alpacas, and the demand for the product is high, yes then you have to have five at once already and then later ten. And then…
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The Organic Farm
At the time when my spiritual „reawakening“ was only a few months old, I stayed with a very sympathetic couple on their organic farm. Both were not young, but also not old. The wife came from Berlin decades ago. Where he came from I do not remember. She with red hair and strong. He slim…
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Mindful of one’s own finiteness
I try to be aware every day that my life will come to an end. Maybe in 50 years or maybe already in the next second. I strive to recognize death as a natural part of my existence. It should not be something I have to hide. Nothing that I have to hide, like a…
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The meaning in management
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…