Quotes from the book “Awakening” by Anthony De Mello “We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.” “If you are not happy, it only means that you are focusing on what you don’t have. Otherwise you would have to experience bliss.” “Happiness is a butterfly: try to catch it and …
Photo: Coloring book made by me A woman was looking for something on the road. People approached her to help. They asked what she was looking for. “A needle” she replied. They started looking with her until someone asked where she had lost it. “At home” they heard in reply. “Why are you looking on …
I am inspired by Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’. The question that followed me for a long time was, “What does it mean to walk the path of one’s own legend?” The answer came during a Chinese medicine class, with Ping Fang. “Today I heard again in my heart the words ‘If you follow the path …
Close your eyes for a moment and feel your arms and shoulders. Are they soft and loose? Or do you feel pain and tense? Is your life carrying you lightly, or are you carrying it like a weight beyond your strength? A few years ago I received a book. And in it, a parable by …
I wrote down the following words over a year ago while returning from Gozo. I find it hard to sit in one place any longer. After Gozo, there was Crete, then Sardinia and three times Tenerife (something went wrong here, but more on that in a moment). “Still the chill of the morning interspersed with …
What does this actually mean? I’ve heard for a long time that it’s important. To live in harmony with yourself. And immediately questions were triggered in me: What if others don’t like it? Can I handle rejection? I don’t like aggression, what if I provoke it? Maybe it’s better to be ‘polite’? And won’t I …
I have fallen up to my ears in the archives of my writing. I browse through the stories, poems and flocks of reflections wandering around in digital catalogues. The soul just smiles seeing me at such work. And although she lives in a different place today, she looks at me through the eyes of a …
And so the Queen of Summer took up residence on Ice Mountain with the Cold People. And she wanted to make the mountain alive and green, full of flowers and singing birds. She hugged the Cold People and the mountain to her heart. But the short spring moments were immediately frozen by the icy wind …
I wrote the following words 3 years ago. Today, my Soul has chosen its place, where I am currently absent. Does this mean that she has abandoned me? I feel her presence and warm care. I am on my way. To her. “The Soul says: “Put into words what is playing in me today”. I …
You come to me. You look with eyes filled with expectation, hope, sometimes even tears. In helplessness, pain, anxiety and even panic. Lately, more and more often with fear. You have already been to many specialists. You have closed one door after another with increasing regret and disappointment. You are looking for solutions. You are …
