On youtube I saw an intriguing piece of storytelling recently about a teacher who one morning in high school gave all her pupils an unexpected test to make. She placed the exam forms face down in front of the students on their tables, just as she would always do, and once everybody had received their …
Throughout life I’ve met quite some teachers to whom I owe a lot; but then we all do. Even when we are not aware of it we encounter people along the way who supply us with bits and pieces that shape us into who we are. Sometimes it is that one book, that one brief …
Ever since I started up as an entrepreneur in spiritual land in the mid nineties, I have been noticing how spirituality can be big business. Having been fortunate enough to have mostly found teachers with integrity on my path, which is not always a given, I’m a lucky camper on the spiritual market. Some might …
It might take while, but when I look at the accelerated speed with which we have evolved over the past 2 centuries, I hope and pray that the insight over who we really are meant to be, will coming sooner than we think; and that our children’s children will no longer be living in a …
Some of the 78 cards in the traditional way of Tarot reading have a pretty bad reputation. One of them is card number 13, which in fact as one of the only cards does not carry a title, but with the image of a skeleton leaves very little to our imagination.In our western world’s matter-oriented ways …
The year is 2117; the day January 17. 82-year old Luther is in his rocking chair on the porch of his self sustaining, solar pannelled house overlooking the organic vegetable garden. A few feet away his grandson Oliver sits at the picknick table . Oliver is preparing a presentation he will be giving at the …
While Fate in Life is often blamed, for Goals that go astray, The Truth might well be tougher yet in that we always may Choose our own Intentions in how we Think and Feel and Act. It’s really never Fate that mentions how we should React. So Treasure what you have in hand and …
There is this famous saying of I believe of Buddhist origin, which says: “You suffer not because you live in the world but because the world lives in you, I believe it means as much as that we are more inspired and directed by what happens in the world around us, than by what lives …
With the American presidential election in progress this very moment, I find it hard to choose a suitable subject to blog about. To be very honest I am a bit gloomy about it all. What is happening right now under our very noses is such an example of poverty in human development, that I feel …
In physics class in high school I learned that everything we can touch or see is made of matter; and that everything that is made of matter is compiled of molecules; and that molecules keep whatever it is they represent together by moving around really fast. I also learned that the more dense something is, …
