The horizon is an earthly fact. It is the all-embracing perimeter. It always embraces the center, without which it cannot...
Summer 2020, I was on a chapel tour with an architect friend. We finally reached Dornach via Cologne, the Eifel...
Considering how politely some chat apps answer us, the question came up in one of our editors’ meetings: should we say “thank you” back? My father gave names to our household machines. He spoke appreciatively to our cars when they got us safely from here to there. I had to...
Lately, I have been writing more about “we” than about myself. I often replace the words “me” and “my” with...
“Here, the audience adds something. Through perception, through listening ‘from outside,’ the ‘unheard’ becomes possible.” This is how author Marc...
According to recently deceased Egyptologist Jan Assmann, bringing the image of the eternal into the world of change was the motif of the most powerful building impulse in human history. Out of the original 800 pyramids, 120 are still standing in the Egypt of today—a testimony to the timelessness of...
Humanity has steadily continued to develop its moral consciousness over the past centuries – solidarity, respect for others, human dignity,...
A few years ago, I wanted to send a quote via an app that was equipped with the kind of...
We are born out of love. This is our inner source and desire. It is partly buried under what we have become. We not only have the fundamental desire to be loved, but we also have the fundamental desire to love. The connection between us and nature is that we...
For this piece to be creative, I have to throw it into the unknown. So, I don’t know where my...
“The traffic light is green!” says the passenger to the driver. Friedemann Schulz von Thun uses this example in his...





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