"Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. To work through and complete grief means to face our feelings openly and honestly, to express or release our feeling fully, and to tolerate and accept our feelings for however long it takes for the wound to heal. We fear that once acknowledged, grief will bowl us over. The truth…

"There is a mystery about rivers that draws us to them, for they rise from hidden places and travel by routes that are not always tomorrow where they might be today. Unlike a lake or sea, a river has a destination and there is something about the certainty with which it travels that makes it very soothing, particularly for those who've lost…

Many years ago a wise friend gave me a name for human love. She called it "stirring-the-oatmeal" love. She was right: Within this phrase, if we will humble ourselves enough to look, is the very essence of what human love is, and it shows us the principal differences between human love and romance.

Stirring the oatmeal…

Beautiful message from Richard Gere:

"There's no time for anything else... It's life and no one escapes this living world. There's still time, so live for fun, maybe tomorrow is no more. Eat what you want, walk in the sun , bathe in the sea... Be crazy, be silly. There's no time for…

Tibetans and well-wishers from Switzerland and neighboring countries welcome HHDL during his brief stopover in Zurich, Switzerland on June 22, 2024, before he continues his journey to New York.

The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice.

The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water and found out it really was nice. So they got naked and bathed.

But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.

The Truth, furious, climbed out of…

Und der Mut ist so müde geworden

und die Sehnsucht so groß.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Bild: "Sehnsucht" von Heinrich Vogeler

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And courage has become so tired

and longing so great.

~…

throw away the idea

that healing is forgetting

the real result is no longer

reacting to old triggers

with the same intensity as before

the memories are still there

but they do not have

the same power over your…

Late in May as the light lengthens

toward summer the young goldfinches

flutter down through the day for the first time

to find themselves among fallen petals

cradling their day’s colors in the day’s shadows

of the garden beside the old house

after a cold spring with no rain

not a sound comes from…

l've been looking away

running out of things to say

and the atrocities seem to worsen

with the passing of each new day

I still pray

but l've been looking away

And when I look

I am bone-shook

there is no part of my fragile humanity

that is let off the hook

I am mute

I've been looking away

I've run out of things to say

but I know we cannot grow

if we do not show

our horror

our care…

“You don't look out there for God,

something in the sky,

you look in you.”

- Alan Watts

"All about me may be silence and darkness, yet within me, in the spirit, is music and brightness.

What you call the dark, to me is golden. Everything has its wonders, even…

Fear can accumulate in our body, causing stress and tension. Rest is a precondition for healing. When animals in the forest get wounded, they find a place to lie down, and they rest completely for many days. They don’t think about food or anything else. They just rest, and they are able to heal themselves quite naturally. When we humans become…

"A lot of you despise me,

And I don't understand why.

I am not ugly or deserving of your hate.

I survive every day on the streets,

That used to be meadows.

There are no tasty seeds,

Because you turned trees into buildings.

I eat what you throw on the ground,

Because I have no choice.

Water is harder…

At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades…I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination…These people are with me. It’s just a stage of your life when the death of people doesn’t banish them out of your consciousness, They’re part of the light in your head.'

 …

CLOSING Cycles 2023:

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through.

Closing cycles,…

One of my best memories of Christmas Eve was when I was a young child of six or seven.

My father was visiting his uncle in the nearby village. When he returned, it was dark, and he wore his winter coat. He said he saw Santa Claus making his way over the road as he was visiting the…

My favourite fairy tale - "The Snow Queen"-

'I can give her no greater power than she has already," said the woman; "don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which…