life motto

Matthew 6:19-21 & Psalm 144:4

Why this site?

In conversations about, for example, career, money, titles, life decisions and worldly things, I sometimes seem "out of time". The background is that material status, titles, money and other earthly things have never really meant anything to me. More important to me, for example in professional activities or fundamentals: meaningfulness, joy, moral integrity and values. That's why I don't drive a status symbol car, live in a huge house or fly on a plane three times a year on vacation.

It's less about "can" and more about "wanting". This may often meet with incomprehension in a performance and consumer society, but for me personally "meaning" and "sharing" are much more important than material things. I wouldn't let academic and professional titles or the like "hang out". Sometimes the naming is necessary, for example to show the portfolio, but the "greed" of the present has always been repugnant to me.

This page was created to explain publicly and clearly the "why" behind my beliefs. Two scriptures in particular reflect my attitude.

Matthew 6:19-21

"You shall not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust devour them, and where thieves break in and steal. But lay up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust devour them, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is , there is your heart too."

For me, this world is far less important than the "after". That's not as crazy as it might sound - and at the same time it is associated with a high degree of serenity.

Psalm 144:4

"But man is like nothing; his time passes like a shadow."

The awareness of the finiteness of all being is a deep philosophical and theological conviction of mine. I believe that people of the present often take themselves far too seriously and importantly, forgetting that we are all just a blink of an eye in the "now".

derivatives

"Whether you only do the job to earn money or whether you enjoy the work because you find it meaningful, decides whether you are a slave or a king."

Max Lüscher, Swiss psychologist

I question and constantly check my actions and my thinking for compatibility with my beliefs. The same applies to people, groups and organizations with whom I walk a common path. If I identify significant discrepancies here, I withdraw or address it beforehand and give new "opportunities". Ultimately, however, at some point the paths separate in one way or another.