I saw this speech on television too, and it was even greater: she said (if I
remember correctly) : I bow (Ich verneige mich.) before the victims, I bow
before the families that have lost their loved ones, I bow before the people
that have suffered.....
At that time I felt that despite all our own little arguments and struggles
as facilitators there is something really important happening in the world.
We can make a difference, this work of Bert Hellinger and colleagues have
made a difference and maybe contributed to making this possible - if it
resonates on a level like this. Who knows what effect all these bows to fate
in all these constellations have in the end and all these constellations
where the perpetrators started to see their victims for the first time as
human beings. I remember in the 'old days' (about seven years ago) if a
perpetrator stayed hard with a closed heart, sometimes Bert would set up the
parents of the victim. They grieved over the death of their beloved child.
Sometimes seeing this grieve made the heart of the perpetrator also open a
little bit more.
And what do you think about the French prime minister saying on his visit to
Londen that France wants to become like brothers to England again?? (Any
idea how many have lost their lives in the century long wars between these
two countries in the past?)
If we can keep our soul free and our minds and emotions steady we can make a
difference, and so do our clients. At the right time in the right place, and
we feel we are all in service of something greater....
Love
Margreet Mossel
www.opstellingen.com <http://www.opstellingen.com/>
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Van: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Namens Max Dauskardt
Verzonden: zaterdag 29 maart 2008 8:50
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Onderwerp: [ConstellationTalk] "The Shoah fills us Germans with shame"
In Mid February it was "my" Australian Prime Minister
addressing Parliament to say 'Sorry'
to all Indigenous Australians.
A few weeks later "my" German Chancellor
addressed the Israeli Parliament to say:
"The Shoah fills us Germans with shame,"
Two unrelated events?
A ray of hope?
A sign of times changing?
Witnessing the right words spoken at the right moment,
feeling their effect ("do you feel better now or worse ?")
it is near impossible not to think:
constellation principles are at work at large.
I for one could not stop a sigh of relief escaping
upon reading what took place in the Knesset.
Growing up in the fifties to an increasing awareness
of the horror that had happened before I was born,
at times I had the sense
of being the only one to feel shame.
Then no one wanted to talk
about that part of the German past.
It did not even have a name then.
For Angela Merkel to be invited
to be the first German Chancellor ever
to speak in the Knesset, in German,
opened the chance which she took impeccably
to speak the words:
"The Shoah fills us Germans with shame"
Thank you for making this possible.
Max
Harmony In Human Systems,
Melbourne, Australia
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