The concept of Yin & Yang is as beautiful as it is straightforward. By now, the symbol is known all across the globe and the depth of its meaning has inspired many truth-seekers. Yet some of its aspects remain quite misunderstood. One of the biggest misconceptions is, for example, the idea that Yin & Yang would also apply to good & evil. It does not.

Often I hear people say they hold the opinion that eventually everybody does everything out of egoism. Even when you help someone else, you only do it because it makes you happy or because you'd feel awful if you didn't help, so they say. Yet, after years of hearing the same argument, I still cannot grasp why it is supported by such an amount of people.

I recently published my new book: "Ego-removal. The way of prophets and sages."

The book digs deeper in the spirituality of ego-removal. It takes a journey through different religions, researches the starting point of prophets and offers inspiration to every sincere truth-seeker.

It explains how the start of all religions resides in the recognition of the fact that it is our own ego that mostly creates our suffering and how the different religions try to give answers to the question how we can remove our egoism and egocentrism.

When you refuse to demonise Islam as is often done today, you can discover its spiritual value without any problem. By very simply reading the Quran, you can come to the obvious conclusion that the core messages of Islam aren't what certain contemporary discourses make of them.

Admittedly, the Koran isn't easy, but that's true for every holy book. So just like with other holy books, you won't get very far when you read the Quran with too many preconceptions. But when you read it with an open spiritual mindset, you can for example find one of the most lovely moral principles on every page of the Koran. I call it 'moral sobriety' myself.

A friend of mine started a blog about the question whether a zero-growth economy could be a possiblity in our contemporary economic system. He wants to research whether the presupposed law that companies and countries HAVE to grow really is such a necessity to make them 'economically healthy'.

I am of course no economist but a theologian. Yet theologians don't live on an abandoned island or in a mythical Shangri-la. Just like anybody else they live in the society. Admittedly their expertise is not economics, but from their own expertise they can perhaps bring a new dimension into certain societal debates. Simply put: one should of course never block a discussion with it, but it never hurts to pull God into it once in a while.

Two mental talismans protect my life. They are two questions that keep me from making the wrong choices. They are two questions that offer a way out of existential dilemma's and spiritual impasses. For to know which questions you should ask can be worth a lot when you feel caught in the vagueness of life.

“I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.

It is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything, I feel it though I do not see it. It is this unseen power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. It transcends the senses."