Be a lover of humans, animals, plants, all forms of life, but please above all be a lover of truth. All that blossoms, will vanish. Beauty will vanish, and so will all success, fame and power. Everything that comes into existence is going to leave it too. Death is Life. Life is…

This article is a comment to the article linked here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-of-spiritual-narcissism/ You can buy a Porsche GT4 and drive it around your neighborhood, parking it in front of your favorite cafe and showing off. Annoying your fellow people with the loud exhaust and also making them jealous. Than, self-assured and…

This flower, a cosmea, appeared out of nothing. A tiny brown seed was holding the immense beauty of a pink flower. But we couldn’t see it back then. Totally hidden, only a tiny seed. …

Innehalten. Nur ruhig schauen, den Atem bewusst wahrnehmen, die Welt betrachten und hinein lauschen. Wenn du achtsam zur Ruhe kommst, dir Zeit nimmst, nichts zu tun, kannst du die Schönheit dieser Welt wieder ganz klar sehen. Wenn du achtsam zur Ruhe kommst, erwacht Freude in dir — ganz natürlich und…

P a u s e . Ein zentraler und so wichtiger Teil unseres Lebens, der mehr und mehr verdrängt wird von oft unnützem, oberflächlichem, lustlosem und lieblosem “Lärm” — in Gedanken, Wörtern, Handlungen und Begegnungen. Wenn die Stille keine Wertschätzung mehr erfährt, sondern kollektiv Angst macht, und daher zwanghaft mit…

Today I saw this quote of Zen Master Seung Sahn and it made me comment on it a bit more because this point is so important: Many people have the narrow view that meditation is something you do at a certain time and place: when you sit down on…

This is a more detailed comment to this post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6405803245264084992 First of all that’s a great and necessary move! And thanks to Peter Bostelmann for his patience, endurance and many years of introducing the practice of mindfulness into companies at such level. Second: Yes, using mindfulness in companies to…

“Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow. Karl Jung said this about ‘the Shadow’ in one of his books: ‘It is as evil as we are positive… the…

Patience. You have enough of that superpower? Yeah, me neither. I am still growing deeper roots in that department. Yet the irony: I can sit 90 day Zen retreats and live with a group of maybe 20 to 50 people in a remote monastery. Sitting on a cushion in formal…