It is not only quant­ity that wins: when qual­ity is high, that too is strong enough. Size, num­ber, mag­nitude and extent are a ques­tion of quant­ity, while pro­por­tion, char­ac­ter, intens­ity and depth – of qual­ity. What? is a ques­tion of quant­ity, how? one of qual­ity.

Per­haps that is why it is said that redemp­tion is the con­cern of the wicked – who­ever is good is already redeemed. Quant­ity – wicked­ness; qual­ity – good­ness.

Everything is only a ques­tion of energy, res­on­ance and fre­quency. Every rela­tion­ship is an exchange of ener­gies. It is as when sev­er­al people cook togeth­er and each puts some import­ant ingredi­ent into the soup: one brings the water, anoth­er the salt, someone else the veget­ables, yet anoth­er the spices, and one brings the pinch of some­thing spe­cial. While one per­son brings only the pep­per. He always brings pep­per. And still only pep­per. Heaps of pep­per. It is all he adds to the soup, always just pep­per. He grinds pep­per in every­one else's face. What do you put into the shared soup of life? Everything is only energy… bring the best you can, noth­ing second-rate, not too little, but not so much either that by tomor­row your stores run dry. Handle both quant­ity and qual­ity with care.

Res­on­ance is the con­cord of the soup. When you pick out neither the heat nor the savour of cori­ander, and the taste melts in your mouth into one won­drous con­cord. Res­on­ance is har­mony. There is no con­spicu­ous sin­gu­lar­ity, no showy self-dis­play or dis­son­ant cli­max – but har­mony reveal­ing itself, majest­ic and yet over­whelm­ingly power­ful.

Whatever res­on­ates cre­ates accord, and in a high­er syn­thes­is mul­ti­plies the strength of each com­pon­ent. One and one make not two, but rather three. Res­on­ance is also an answer, an answer to an invit­a­tion, a response to a request. A clear request and a sin­cere answer. If your thoughts, words or deeds are incap­able of answer­ing, then you have no need of ques­tions either, for you would not know what to do with them any­way. This too is res­on­ance, an inverse res­on­ance, evap­or­at­ing into noth­ing.

And fre­quency is recur­rence – do you eat soup every day? Do you pre­pare food every day, for the joy of oth­ers, or only now and then? And do you eat only when you are hungry, or out of habit even when you are not? How many things you repeat in life, day after day. Some you tire of, oth­ers you repeat tire­lessly. Life is repe­ti­tion: soup, every day. And yet life is a mys­tery that does not wear thin in repe­ti­tion and turn into routine, but bright­ens. Life is not a cistern that slowly fills with water and some­times over­flows, but a liv­ing spring from which exper­i­en­cing wells up. From ful­filling comes ful­fil­ment. Repeat your spir­itu­al prac­tices, and you will see that tomor­row the same thing means more. Even stronger, fuller, even more intense, even high­er in qual­ity.

The secret of life is a won­der.

The life of the won­der is a secret.

The won­der of the secret is life.

So life is energy itself, and this is also true in reverse: energy is life itself. And life is fed from an inex­haust­ible spring… Res­on­ance is the har­mo­ni­ous, suc­cess­ful way of life, and it is worth won­der­ing at. And fre­quency is noth­ing other than the recur­rence of this won­der­ing, the won­der recog­nised every day, again and again.

Exist­ence is a ques­tion of quant­ity, the how of exist­ence one of qual­ity! Being is an exist­en­tial state­ment, and well-being adds a moral qual­ity to it. And ful­fil­ment crowns the striv­ing.