Proud of Our Family

My daughter and her family found a little bird that flew into the window and fell down , not capable of getting up and flying away . They cared for her/him as long as needed until s/he could take off again and fly away .
These are the moments that makes us proud of them .
More than diplomas or other achievements ever can ...
We love you !

Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein

Under The Surface

Reflections after a counselling session : 
We are looking for ourselves mostly "out there" ...in activities , social action or even in books and on TV.  Silence can be very busy when we keep controlling the silence/ aloneness by activity.
We create a lot of ripples and waves on the surface, so that the waters never become still enough to look deep down to the ground. 
We need to teach our children how to stay inside themselves instead of hopping up to the surface  creating images, activities, problems, stories all the time and forgetting  themselves on the bottom of the waters . 
If we want to see young people who do not become technology zombies, agitated consumers, compassion - less egos, it is our responsibility to teach them how to stay in their 
Big Heart and Big Mind . 
We need to understand that our task is not to make them fix and fit for society as is, but to always give them back to themselves and encourage them to live in their own truth. And additionally, we need to give their life meaning by showing them that they have some task in society, family, community and  encourage them to participate in work for community instead of just "letting them be children" ... 
instead of taking away everything challenging from them, not trusting that they are strong enough to grow with that.  
And especially in a society that lives behind masks, we have to encourage them to never deny their feelings - Not acting them out, but allowing them to express feelings...
The young clients coming to me are suffering from a huge dis-connect to the innermost core, an inability to handle challenging emotions and situation . T
Thus they run away from it with all sort of addiction like behaviours , loosing themselves in the new dogma of positive thinking and ignoring of their innermost core by cheering themselves through a constant flow of consummation. 
The face of today´s generation´s suffering is different from the one most of my generation showed  --- 
But it is suffering nonetheless.
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