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My dear brother Roger and Mady,
who is his wife, left in the night to go back to
Luxembourg. I am missing them here already. We had a
nice time, also on our trip to the Himalayas. Even
though we did not have much time to talk because
here is so much going on, we have this relation and
this love in our hearts and feel connected with each
other. This is what I want; this is the kind of
relationship that is right and needed.
I have
told before that we were playing a lot of billiard
first on a mini pool table in Ramona's home and
later we have been in Osnabrück and played on a real
table. Andrea, Ramona's mother and a dear friend of
mine, knows that we enjoyed that very much. So she
decided to make the gift of a pool table to me, my
brothers and the Ashram. She said: "I can see how
much you all are working all the time. You need to
have some fun, too, you deserve that. Only with a
break sometimes you can put your full energy in the
work. I want to give you a pool table as a gift."
She knows how much we are working, it is true. And
like this we will take some time for us, too. I have
also said this before: we need to think of
ourselves, too. We cannot always occupy our mind
with thinking what others think or want or would
like us to do. You have to be happy for yourself.
Only then you can help others to be happy. Of course
I also have fun in my work. I am fully involved in
it but it is also nice to spend time in playing with
others like we were always playing badminton. Now we
are also playing Billiard. I have devoted my life,
my energy and my time to the charity work that I am
doing, that we all are doing with the children. But
I need to have the strength that I get out of
leisure, too. I need to charge the battery. For this
others have the weekend free. I work seven days a
week but whenever I feel I need it I take my time
off to relax in playing with others, be in peace and
silence and to let the mind rest. The pool table
arrived yesterday and we and our guests had a lot of
fun with it already. Nobody really can play but we
have fun. I said to my parents to come and join us.
They always play Carrom board, which is an Indian
game, a bit similar, just in sitting and with a kind
of puck instead of balls. So I said to them to play
that with us and my father did play with us and the
students. We all played and enjoyed it very much.
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