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„It is today that we must create the world of the future.“ - Eleanor Roosevelt "When did I have my first vision?", I asked myself recently...Looking back, I can say that I always set [...]

„May you find the balance of life - time for work but also time for play. Too much of one thing ends up creating stress that no one needs in their life.“ - Catharine Pulsifer [...]

"We live in a dangerous age. People control nature before they have learned to control themselves." - Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) 3 years of pandemic almost over – almost though, because there are still numerous Covid [...]

„Joy is prayer; joy is strength:joy is love; joy is a net of loveby which you can catch souls.” — Mother Teresa How can you feel joy when you are bombarded by an almost endless [...]

„CHANGE IS THE END RESULT OF ALL TRUE LEARNING.” — Leo Buscaglia Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1861746-webcomics, 9.1.23 I’ve just returned from a spontaneous weekend trip with my friend at Semmering, Austria. Conny and I wanted [...]

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” - Marin Luther King, Jr. December 10 is the Human [...]

„The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift“ - Albert Einstein Intuition - what [...]

“So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.” - Baha’U’Llah Source: https://www.rkw-kompetenzzentrum.de/publikationen/leitfaden/kompetenzen-der-zukunft/ Lately, I've been thinking a lot about which competencies we will need especially in the [...]

„Much coldness is among humans because we dare not give ourselves as warmly as we are.“ - Albert Schweitzer When was the last time I was really brave? This question is harder to answer than [...]

"The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful: it is gratitude that makes us joyful." - Bruder David Steindl-Rast T h a n k y o u - unbelievable [...]

“When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.” - Zig Ziglar What a wonderful feeling to observe people who flourish in their passions and take other people along with them [...]

“There can be no friendship without trust and no trust without integrity." - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) Long Night of Churches – June 10, 22 - 33 virtues – dance Billi Thanner *1972 lives [...]

“It’s a quantum physics concept where everything that can happen, is happening, in an infinite number of parallel universes.”- Maria Semple If I remember correctly, I first encountered the term 'hybrid' (from the Greek hybris [...]

"Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.“ - Pope Francis [...]

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” - John F. Kennedy The world is upside down - that's how the last [...]

The Sacred Turtle teaches us that the patience and inner strength are the foundations of the unfolding of life. - Chef Phil Lane, Jr. In December 2014, I purchased a glass painting [...]

There is no freedom without mutual understanding. - Albert Camus ´What does freedom mean to you?`, I recently asked in a school class and I asked the students to have a silent dialogue on the [...]

There is no greater power than love. It overcomes hatred as light overcomes darkness. - Martin Luther King Love, such an expressive word, such a tender word, a word that cannot be read and [...]

Empathy is a gift that eludes those who know only themselves. - Peter Amendt Even though the term 'empathy' was first used as early as 1848, by the German philosopher Rudolf Lotze, I personally [...]

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein In principle, I have always been fascinated by everything that is connected with movement: from ‘I [...]

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Recently I came home after a long day at work, step by step [...]

The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return. - Yrsa Daley-Ward I just returned last week from my holiday from Greece - I am almost still in vacation mood, which I'd [...]

A single opinion is comfortable. Comfort is hostile to change. Progress is uncomfortable because it changes the comfort. -Thomas Vato Now that in many states of the world a certain 'normality' has returned, [...]

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. —Carlos Santana I want to congratulate each and every one of us in this blog post, wherever you live, love and [...]

The highest perfection of the soul is its capacity for joy. —Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues (French philosopher and writer) *06.08.1715, t 28.05.1747 🏖I took the blog header picture in August 2018 during [...]