• Allgemein,  Life

    Wholeness and separation

    Waking up yesterday morning from a deep dream state: Feeling like I was coming back from faraway. Very ecstatic and happy, I ask myself, “Am I waking up from my heart surgery? Is it already over? Yes, I thought, it´s good, everything is good. I am reborn and my heart is fixed!“ All the heaviness I have been carrying was gone like a dark cloud passing. Disappointment, alas, I still have some challenges ahead before my operation 27 February. I keep this treasure with me now, recalling joyful gratitude and lightness in my chest. What a present, what a source of strength! One more week before I make my way…

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    February – the Light Bringer

    Winter is fighting to survive – the nights here in Northern Austria are unfriendly and freezing cold. But the sun is stronger, setting now around 5:00 pm already and the growing light cannot be held back. Birds are singing so loud and joyfully at sunset, while they were silent a few icy weeks ago. Life force is a miracle we can trust … and it gives me courage and strength for the challenges awaiting me. I am getting ready for my heart surgery February 27th (International Day of the Polar Bear, by the way?!?) in Innsbruck. Trying to calm my fears and turn them into curiosity about the unknown, the…

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    In memory of Mary Oliver and cherry blossoms

    … And under the trees, beyond time´s brittle drift, I stood like Adam in his lonely garden On that first morning, shaken out of sleep, Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves, Like tissue on some vast incredible gift. – Mary Oliver, Morning in a New Land Mary Oliver, American poet and my soul mentor, crossed the threshold yesterday Between the Worlds. Sunset has some deeper meaning for me. I cannot quite grasp it or capture it in words. Not yet. „What is worthy of the moments and sunrises ahead?“, I asked the old cherry tree in the vineyard. It did not blossom last year. Who else remembers the orgy…