A walk in the city. A coffee in hand. Looking around slowly. Almost invisible, with a magic hood, barely two...
And as the time of the fifty days neared its fulfilment, they were waiting with shared devotion for the beginning...
«It seems that mechanical-technical civilization is primarily deadly for the soul. The heart can hardly bear the icy touch of metal.» (Nikolas Berdyaev, ‹Humanity and Technology›). Mechanics obeys the cold laws of external causality. If the world, if world history were pure mechanics, there would be no wiggle room, and...
There are three ways of approaching the nature of a number: mathematically, a number reveals something of itself when we...
The angel’s color on the edge of early morning clouds is like a first tender “Let there be.” One creative...
According to Herbert Salzmann, the oldest form of cooperation brings the pyramid into view: someone says where to go. The clown Nögge caricatured this authoritarian principle of leadership with a choleric expression: «I’ll tell you what to do – and if you won’t, I’ll tell you what you’ll do instead»...
That’s the feeling when you walk in the countryside, that feeling of fullness, often also of beauty. Certainly also about...
Thee heaven appears in ‹Faust› three times: at the beginning, when God and Mephisto negotiate the soul of Faust, at...
After a heated argument with my twelve-year-old son, he comes home with a somewhat tacky mug he found in a giveaway box. It has a red heart painted on a blue background. He just puts it on the table, without a comment, and disappears into his room. I walk behind...
There are 10,000 things in every household – that’s how it is often said. No one has counted them, and...
Angels always appear when people encounter border or boundary situations. […] At such moments they are most likely to be...
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