Out of Pure Friendship

One year after the stroke, in the New Year’s Eve 1979, I was feeling like a newborn child. My former life time had passed by and nothing new was built to replace it. I felt that I had an endless amount of blank paper before me, on which I could create my life just as…

We all have our role to play

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust As I got my handicap I had from the very beginning the feeling that it was not so important to have many different kind of experiences. More important was that I learned to see my experiences from…

What happened to me?

In my text Foretaste of Forthcoming I write that I found a sustainable ground for my life over 30 years ago in the lyrics of an ancient oriental hymn. I am glad that I can stand tall now and say: this is how it happened. But as everything was happening to me I did not…

What do we need?

In my text Foretaste of Forthcoming I write that as I wrote the basis for this blog everything seemed to gather together by itself and things that I needed appeared miraculously before me as I had the very thought of what I needed. It raised in my mind a thought that the Law of Attraction…

Optical Illusion

Optical Illusion

As I was browsing the Color Matters web site I came across one link depicting an optical illusion. For this writing I couldn’t find the link I first saw, but I found another link, which tells the same story. In the link there is a circle formed by pink dots. First you see a pink…

What is Consciousness?

What is Consciousness?

We are used to think, that when we know something we are conscious. We imagine that knowledge makes us conscious and we try to gain as much knowledge as possible. Knowledge broadens our horizon and helps us solve problems, but we also know that actual knowledge is outdated tomorrow. We also know that the more…