Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
[...]
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
Bertrand Russell 

Spirituality

We have benefited from wisdom of the following spiritual teachers :

• Eastern wisdom : His holiness the Dalai Lama, Tchich Nhat Hanh, Sogyal Ringpoche, Krishnamurti, K Gibran
• Western wisdom : St John of the Cross, Bernard de Clairvaux, Meister Eckhart, Teilhard de Chardin
• Contemporay wisdom : E Tolle, A.H. Almaas, K Wilber
• Findhorn spirit : E Caddy, P Caddy, D Mc Lean, F Santoro, W Bloom
• Channelling : N D Walsh

Therapies

The following authors have contributed to deepen our undersrtanding of a number of therapies :

• Psycho-area : Freud, Jung, Klein, Maslow
• Kinesiology : J F Thie, Dennison
• Bach flowers : Dr E Bach, M Schäffer,
• Reiki : W L Rand, F A Peter, W Lübeck
• Communication : M Rosenberg, J Salomé
• NLP : J Grinder, R Bander, R Dilts
• Stress management : J Kabat-Zinn

General

• Esotéric novels : P Coehlo, M Morgan
• Philosophy : Platon, Socrate, Hegel, Fromm, Mircea Illiade, Nietsche, Kant, Pascal
• Theme centered interaction : R Cohn, B Langmack

It is always inspiring for us to read again and again the following poets: B. W. Yeats, R M Rilke, J O’Donohue

Children pedagogues

When we got our child, we were very inspired by the by the concept of "positive" education developped by: E. Pikler, J Juul, A Tardos, S Stricker, J. Bauer, S. Langer, D. Siegel.