Last weekend I visited a famous South Indian temple with my Indian friends. 

For them this is a very important temple. Whatever you are praying for, it is said, will come true.

I opened my heart and mind to allow myself to not to reject this as a mere superstition. 

In my upbringing there was no presence of the sacred. My parents never went to Church except on Christmas. ☺ Like many Germans do ☺ But I always felt that something is missing, a longing for depth, which I had no words for to describe it.

So here I was, in the middle of hundreds of devotes (everyone trying to be social distancing but it was impossible ☺) something powerful filled my being when standing in front of the idol (Lord Krishna). Calmness, peace and content came over me. I was just standing there and was taken by it.  A timeless moment!

Rituals, visiting spiritual places, praying and meditating are very important for our wellbeing. We maybe find it in nature, in our own home, in a place of worship. It doesn’t matter where, but it needs our willingness to stop for a moment and allow ourselves to not know and be open for whatever happens.

In our mostly so busy lives we don’t make enough space for the sacred. The amazing thing in India is that even in the middle of a booming development into modernity, India has not lost that all pervasive sense of just being, of a knowledge that everything is connected and that we humans will never be able to control life.