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„A soul approaches. It is barely recognizable among all the things it is carrying. It is overloaded with heavy riches, gold, jewelry and things that can be bought with a lot of money. She is stooping under all this weight.

Haven’t you noticed how all this has made you stoop lower and lower? And now you find it so hard to let it go. The heavy chains you have wrapped around yourself and your wealth, do they really hold it to you – or have you tied yourself to it?

It has become more and more, but your thirst has never been quenched. And now? You try hard to hold everything together. But with every step you take, you lose some of your treasures. Because you can’t take them with you – you know that. And I can feel your fear. Your fear of seeing yourself when you shed all your wealth. Crooked and bent, like you are underneath. Consumed by your own consumption. Consumed by greed.

Remember – what were you before? When you were still free from wealth and greed. Remember the feeling of lightness that surrounded you, that carried you.

I revive your memory. Come, lean on my strong roots. Straighten up again on my trunk. Feel the autumn wind that blows around you and invites you to leave everything superfluous to it and let it float away like dry leaves. Let go of everything that makes you feel heavy. Let yourself fall into the feeling of autumn, which carries away the old and reveals what has matured underneath. Because you too have matured. Underneath all that weight, you are rich with experience and with the realization that everything in these worlds is fleeting. What good is it to possess so much and to cross too many boundaries for it if you have to leave it all behind here, on my threshold?

Dare to let it go and you will realize what is really valuable. Bathe in the warmth of gratitude like in the last warm rays of the autumn sun. And you can move on upright.“