Friendship. Subtle as an early-spring-breeze. A buoyant flower that does not make you sneeze. Travelling through our hearts with light luggage. Still it adds to banks of emotional knowledge.   Sometimes we do not see a friend for ten years. We finally meet and we cannot believe our ears. The ode of our bond still sings in the heart. The flame in the chest knows time to outsmart.   Other times a friend forever disappears. Moves to a distant land or the death nears. Still the friend will visit us in dreams. The sights will be more real than it seems.   Take care, Helena Smole, author...

There used to be a lot of categories people fell into. You were either black or white, you were of this or that nation, you belonged to this or that church and you supported this or that political party. There was a certain feeling of safety attached to belonging to the same group. Today we can see that the mere belonging to the right group does not mean anything. One has to experience each individual personally in order to know, whether one can trust him or her. The only way you can trust somebody without getting to know the person first is to ask people you trust, whether the new person is...

What is true love? There have been many attempts at defining it. Is it a really passionate love? Is it love that lasts a lifetime? Or is it the compassionate love? In my opinion we cannot define TRUE love once and for all, for there is no FALSE love. Is there a thing like false love? I do not think so. Love simply IS or IS NOT. Yes, there can be more or less love or in other words it can be more or less passionate. The classic example are ‘friends’ that do not know you anymore, when you fall ill or go bankrupt for example. They can be called false friends. But their love is not false I believe....

Are there more lives or just one? With this dilemma I am done. What matters is to always be fair. Which makes it easy to make friends everywhere. I was not raised in any religious way. And since I was a diligent student, I believed in science. Life had many surprises in store for me though. Exploring alternative psychology in my thirties I involuntarily started to explore the spiritual level of human existence. I liked the idea of reincarnation right away, because it gives us so many opportunities to make things right. I found it much more gentle than the harsh catholic...