The conventional definition of human potential connects it with the expression of the extraordinary potential that lies untapped in all people. The idea is to develop oneself toward a life of happiness, creativity and fulfillment. Usually, a human being engaged in this process will feel the connection to other human beings and thus choose to assist others to release their potential.

In general terms, this is what this blog is about. For over 3 decades this has been my core life interest, both for myself as well as in the sense of helping others. I don’t claim to bring anything  new into play. Everything I know, I learned from someone else who was kind enough and strong enough to undertake the journey before me. My approach has been to seek understanding by synthesizing knowledge I acquired through various sources and then applying it through practice as I saw fit. In the beginning I focused exclusively on one thing or another for relatively long periods of time but as time passed the common source to all the teachings became more and more evident to me.

One of my most important teachers was Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and I remember he once said: “The purpose of life is to be a great being“. I wholeheartedly agree with this. He didn’t mean it in a megalomaniac way, but rather in the sense that only in being is true fulfillment found.

So how to be? My sense is this is so simple it becomes rather illusive. To be you just need to ……be. To get there, you stay here, you stay present to everything, you step out of time and into the eternal now. There are many techniques that can help along the way or even at any given moment yet the ultimate target is to rest in the utter simplicity of being.

This doesn’t invalidate the value of past and present, nor of material accomplishment. As we  connect with our being and express it naturally we will all have different tendencies, some are artists, some businessmen or women, some athletes etc. Being doesn’t equate to rich or poor, high or low, fast or slow. Anything is possible. Being itself is the guide to what you will choose to do with your life.