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Hellinger, B. Christian/Jewish German/Jewish Healing in the Soul. Paper presented at the Third International Congress for Family and Human Systems Constellations. Würzburg, Germany, 2001.

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Monthly Reflection

Bert Hellinger:

Awareness and Thinking

There are many ways to approach truth. I myself pursue one course that I know well but many others run alongside it. It’s curious however that, though there are many composers, no two have discovered the same melody. Each has his own insight. Every melody is different and each, in its own way, beautiful.

No two people can have the same insight about the same thing. If they both have an insight about the same thing, that of one differs slightly from that of the other. Fullness cannot be confined to one course.

Some people shirk awareness in that they make an assertion or raise an objection that they have thought up without any deeper understanding of what it is they are asserting. Making such assertions is cheap. Anyone can do it, even a fool. But when awareness meets awareness both are enhanced by the encounter.

Thinking without awareness always revolves around the same thing - whatever is familiar. From thinking alone insight cannot arise. Insight emerges from awareness. Then thinking ensues. Insight begins with awareness and is developed through the process of thinking.