Know the image
“If the reflection in the pondoften becomes blurred:Know the image.”(Rainer Maria Rilke. From the Sonnets to Orpheus (First part, IX) Ever since I found this poem, this idea is alive in my heart. “Know the image” to me is a friendly reminder, a soft counsel, to remember what’s real, what’s worthy, what’s royal in us. […]
Volunteering
”All God’s servants are minute men and women. As of old, I stand with sandals on and staff in hand, waiting for the watchword and the revelation of what, how, whither. Let us be faithful and obedient, and God will do the rest.” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896, p. 158) Mary Baker Eddy inspires us beautifully to embrace consecration and readiness as a daily asset. There […]
Show up – Every Day
Be inspired by blog post # 6000 by Seth Godin, entitled “Susdat!”: “Abbey Ryan has painted a new painting every day for 8 years. Isaac Asimov published 400 books, by typing every day. This is post #6000 on this blog. Writer’s block is a myth, a recent invention, a cultural malady. More important than the output, though, is the act itself. […]
With Alice in the Wonderland of Joy
There is healing and authentic inspiration hovering over Alice Herz-Sommer. She was for many years the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, a pianist and educator from Prag. I know because at the time of her passing at the age of 110 I was in charge of a Beethoven cycle, giving a series of lectures in the […]
Right Thinking
Right Thinking – Mary Baker Eddy Style I loved reading a children’s book first to our children. It is about a pony, a bear, and an apple tree. I must have read it a hundred times. I know this book for sure. During one of the adventures, an elephant has to figure out a solution […]
How unrest ends
This morning I was praying to find an answer for someone who is wrestling for quite some time now to find inner peace – and sleep at night. The thought presented itself: „Rest is where it is right.” Rest is where it is right. Yes, this is so. We know it, it is like an […]
A child for us all-A Christmas Blog
It feels like walking with the shepherds towards the star. Day by day one step forward. A little owl is part of the company, too. The quiet early mornings are powerful times to deepen our sense of Christmas, and this year new meanings of the child in the manger and its “childlike” global message of […]