by Ela | Jan 25, 2012 | Books, Decisions, Reflection, Stories
It is a deep night, long time ago. Five young men are keeping vigil in a chapel. There are on their knees, lost in darkness with some shadows cast by a pale flame. They are not allowed to talk, neither to react to any noise from outside. They must not open the door....
by Ela | Jan 11, 2012 | Books, Consciousness, Patterns, Stories, Understanding
This post is inspired by The Acorn Principle book. “This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow – as the night the day – thou cans’t not be false to any man.” “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare You are an acorn...
by Ela | Jan 6, 2012 | Books, Stories, Understanding
I had a dream as a child. My dream was to conquer the whole world. Was it also your dream, perhaps? Of course I knew it might be difficult, perhaps even very difficult, but it sounded possible. Just as possible as for a boy, usually perceived as a stupid or incapable...
by Ela | Nov 6, 2011 | Patterns, Reflection, Stories, Understanding
A beautiful quilt by Inge Duin. See www.ingeduin.nl. When I was a student I was working in Germany during the summer holidays. Some years I worked on farm fields. It was a hard, physical work, usually 11-13h daily, six or seven days a week. My goal was to earn money...
by Ela | Aug 22, 2011 | Effective communication, How-to, Stories, Understanding
Many years back my friend was going through a painful divorce. She was my close friend some time before that event, but we lost the connection when we started to pursue different paths in life. I learned about her divorce from others and I knew it was a tough...
by Ela | May 9, 2011 | Consciousness, Stories, Understanding
When I was living in the Netherlands a group of friends discovered a common interest in studying consciousness. Perhaps this was so because we were already fascinated by learning from examples and pattern recognition. We started in 2000 as a group of seven people:...
