Programme: Amor Fati play and rituals through Music, art, dancing and stories from all corners of the world to connect people and their cultures
What: *Introducing The Art of Living Together as the start of the QfWf-yearly theme 2026: Inter-Cultural Rituals for Global Citizenship!
*Festive gathering with Amor Fati Ritual Play around the theme How to cope well with the changing winds in life, in Prosperity and Adversity?
Who: Quest for Wisdom Soul Circle in collaboration with stg Culturele Droomwevers, presentating the first copy of the publication of the book ABC der Wijsheid:
Arts Dialogues for finding your right course in life:
*Singing together with Henry Muldrow around the Amor Fati theme *Listen to his Amsterdamse Wereldburgers Rap
Date: Saturday 24th January 2026
Time: from 13.00 doors open – programme starts 13.30 till 16.30 celebrating and closing at 17.00 uur
Costs: please donate for the Quest for Wisdom foundation and become a ‘QfWf-friend’ with your yearly contribution by means of a bank transfer to IBAN NL14TRIO0777827654 of the Quest for Wisdom foundation in Weesp.
Yearly donations from € 45,= or more give free entrance for QfWf-meetings!
Inspirational Poem on the QfWf- World Dream:
The world might be a symphony
of atoms in a sea of Aum ॐ 唵
in which we dance to an ancient melody.
Our wildest dreams in scarlet rage
taste bitterweet and sour.
The heavenly Mead uplifts our spirits,
yearning in this hour
for the One — an aching feeling,
heartbreaking chords of splendour…
The Winter Whirling Wheel-Newletter-QfWf-2025-12-21 focuses on the finale of the 2025 annual theme “Practices of Global Citizenship” and announces the 2026 annual theme as “Inter-Cultural Rituals for a Global Society”, provides impressions of the annual Meeting Day and about the Betuwe Counselling and Guidance Circle which is developing a Taster for the purchase of the QfWf Art of Living Game Amor Fati. The Fall-Newsletter-2025-09-23 reflects on the relevance of the World Peace Day declared by the United Nations. In response, the two QfWf Core Circles deepen the annual theme ‘Practices of Global Citizenship’ through Amor Fati Collaboration in (bi)monthly meetings and through monthly contributions on the Golden Ratio platform.
In an extra Newsletter-2025-08-25 attention is paid to copyright cowboys, who scour the internet with software, randomly targeting images that resemble photos protected by copyright. Because the QfWf has wasted money, time and energy to lodge objections or to pay the disproportionate ‘settlement proposals’, the QfWf Editorial team will, in coordination with the QfWf Board, clean up the Wisdom Web and replace any potentially risky illustrations with its own images — thereby giving more authenticity to all of her websites.
The Rainbow Paradise Bird with Comic Egg
The Firy Summer Newsletter 2025 shows the travelling of the Global Citizenship Exhibition, including the ceramic sculpture of the Rainbow Paradise Bird with the Cosmic Egg in a fairy-tale setting by the pond of the Weesper Tea Garden, ready for a new place in the autumn with an intercultural artistic programme ofAmor Fati Play. There are ten paintings from the Amor Fati, Amor Mundi en Bomen series from Greg Suffanti in the Wisdom Shop: with the purchase you support the QfWf-projectd.
With the announcement of a change in the QfWf-Editorial board and other Rejuvinating Spring News 2025 onwards the Seasonal Newsletters are integrated with the other documentation on the QfWf-Videochannel Webpage.
All the older Seasonal Newsletters from Fall 2016 till Winter 2024 are to be found on the Wisdom Web.
Since autumn 2018, the QfWf-video channel offers recordings of music, lectures, dialogues, workshops and valuable moments from Meeting Days and Masterclasses.
The QfWf-Circle is welcome on the Seasonal Meetings:
Fall: 18 October 2025 Winter: 24 January 2026 Winter: 24 januari 2026: Festive gathering in collaboration with Cultural Dreamweavers and the presentation of the first copy of the ABC of Wisdom!
Theme Amor Fati play: How to handle the changing winds in life of Prosperity and Adversity?
Spring: 21 March 2026 Summer: 20 June 2026
Time: from 13.00 doors open – programme 13.30 till 16.30 hours, doors close at 17.00.
Costs: please, become a ‘QfWf-friend’ by means of a donation and you will get the book Amor Fati as a welcome gift! If possible a € 45,= yearly donation on IBAN NL14TRIO0777827654 of the Quest for Wisdom foundation in Weesp.
The QfWf appreciates every donation from the heart!
Dates: Friday meetings 29 august, 1 november 2025
13 december 2025: Roads towards Happiness;
23 januari 2026: Inter-Cultural Philosophical Instruments;
13 maart 2026: Narrative Wisdom on life’s Ups & Downs;
10 april 2026: How to deal with Hardships in Life?;
29 mei 2026: Meeting the Strange Other;
19 juni 2029: Quintessence of Finding your Destiny.
Free for: the QfWf-Soul Circle en QfWf-friends, who have experience with the Amor Fati board-game
Kosten: please donate to the Quest for wisdom foundation to become a ‘friend’ for € 45,= per year on bank account IBAN NL14TRIO0777827654 of the Quest for wisdom foundation in Weesp.
Info: Playful Wisdom for the Cosmopolis…: in seven playing rounds/ life themes Authenticity – Intercultural Bildung, Happiness and Tragedy, Crises and the Strange Other, Finding your Destination.
Soul Circle on Global Citizenship
Meetings in 2026: 24 jan – 21 maart – 25 april – 20 juni
Programma: Arts Dialogues around on the Amor Fati Life Themes:
Introduction of the play round and chapter of the book Amor Fati by Heidi Muijen
A creative interplay with the Soul Circle towards an artistic expression of the Amor Fati-life theme
Arts Dialogues on how this theme provides a foundation for world citizenship
Who: QfWf-Soul-Circle
Practical: Bi-monthly meetings starting from
Date: Saturday 21 june 2025 around the theme:
How are you in your element? <> interplay with an elemental dance by Juanita Ho: Which elemental qualities ground practices of world citizenship?
Fall meetings and themes:
20 September: drawing your attitude in life with Robin Stemerding
18 October: experimenting with your Frame of Reference with Tim Laboyrie
22 November: Musical workshop by Mitra Muijen & Madalina Hristache: How to deal with inter-cultural differences within and without ourselves? – the Annual Meeting Day!
Costs: By giving a donation as ‘Friends’ of the Quest for wisdom foundation.
We hope for € 45,= per year – though we welcome everyone’s donation according to their means on IBAN number NL14TRIO0777827654 of the Quest for Wisdom foundation in Weesp.
Naturally, the Quest for Wisdom foundation greatly appreciates each donation, making the QfWf activities possible!
“Every person longs for the good life and every culture passes on its wisdom to future generations to grow as a person on an inward journey that connects all corners of the world. Thereby we flourish as a community, celebrating life in the cosmopolis “
In a tilting world order the QfWf aims to contribute towards a culture of openness and pluriformity by tapping into one’s own and shared historical roots. Can we learn to be global citizens by revitalizing wisdom traditions worldwide and liberating ourselves from groupthink?
Developing intercultural programmes according to the Golden Ratio principle of natural and (inter)cultural growth. Since 2024 the QfWf-platform Golden Ratio is dedicated to initiatives of Global Citizenship around a yearly theme with intercultural and artistic forms, play and dialogue: Golden Ratio Collection (e)books and Animal Wisdom storytelling.
In 2026 we have cancelled the expensive Mollie-service. As a consequence the Donation button does not work anymore. So please, donate via a bank transfer:
bankrekening IBAN: NL14TRIO0777827654
The reason for cancellation is that the monthly costs of this service are too high for our limited budget.
Help realize the goals of the Quest for wisdom foundation (QfWf)!
You become a QfWf-friend by donating yearly
We hope for a donation of € 45,= per year – though we are happy with the amount you are able to give!
In addition in helping to realize the intercultural QfWf-programmes, contributing to our aim of Global Citizenship, by donating € 45,= per year as a QfWf friend you get:
the (e)book about the annual QfWf-programme, such as Amor Fati in 2025 and Amor Mundi in 2024;
“It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us — onze diepste angst is dat we buitenmatig krachtig zijn. Het is ons licht niet onze duisternis die ons het meest bang maakt…” — Marianne Williamson in: A Return to Love.
“Let freedom reign. The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement!” — Nelson Mandela, 1994.
Leidschendammer Lounge Meeting
Each year the Quest for Wisdom organizes Circles to cocreate an intercultural programme on an annually changing theme of social relevance, to be presented bij the Soul Circle on the Annual Meeting Day. The wider QfWf-Circle is invited to contribute with blogs, essays and artistic materials to be published on the Golden Ratio website as well as in a Golden Ratio Yearbook, thus making on a small scale the QfWf-World Dream come true. In 2024 the theme “Global Citizenship” was documented in Amor Mundi and in 2025 Amor Fati, highlights the cocreative and playful way how the QfWf realizes its vision of the Wheel of the Intercultural Art of Living for an inclusive cosmopolitan culture, in which all people may feel at home and in harmony with all living beings:
“Global Citizenship is open communication between people, without being judgemental.
Respectful to each other, acknowledging that however different we are, we can stay connected, and are able to share!”
A world dream emerges when we start dreaming together. By sowing seeds of love in our own circles — instead of going along with reflexes of indifference, aggression and fear — so that a smile elicits laughter, warmth is answered with embracing. How valuable are the differences between people to create a meaningful world and to make (working) life more colourful and fascinating — whith people developing an eye for (inner) beauty. How beneficial when people are opening up so that en open space between people creates an inclusive society.
World Citizenship – Nour Kayali
A world we dream of is created by dreaming. By not forgetting our ‘childishly naive’ way to be open and confident. And let us not forget that the most beautiful things are born from our hopes and dreams. The most beautiful dreams and positive emotions empower ourselves as communities, by an ethos that reaches to the stars and can change the world – these dreams begin with powerful dreamers like Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King. Like John Lennon sings “I’m a dreamer and I’m not the only one…”. Let’s start dreaming together about a world where each can find shelter and people around to feel at home, by starting small actions in our own circles so that our world-dream-power comes alive. With small steps that are big and loving deeds that are contagious. Weaving threads of soft forces that connects us as global citizens and living beings on Mother Earth, flowing with the stream of life….
Platform for the QfWf yearly theme — Global Citizenship
QfWf-event on Global Citizenship
The QfWf has launched the digital platform De Gulden Snede in 2024 in order to present the development of the — by the Cultural Participation Funding honoured — project “Global Citizenship of the streat”: through different creative media and channels the QfWf develops a yearly intercultural programme on a social relevant theme. In 2024 the QfWf-projectgroep created an artistic programme, to give voice to intercultural perspectives and an harmonizing view against the hardening migration policies by contrasting their own positive experiences of intercultural encounters. This was done in words, images and music, expressing the central idea and value of inclusion, embodied in a ceramic sculpture: the Rainbow Bird of Paradise with the Cosmic Egg.
Quo vadis: Becoming who you are
Hey you, being on two feet, wandering around the world … Dazedly dividing Mother Earth into mine and thine: Is this commandment of possession mayby theft and the greatest venom by which you have to prove with a document to be a human ‘citizen’ in order not to be treated as undocumented stranger and pariah?
Beyond the boundaries of the nation-state lies the cosmopolis: there, all beings-with-a-heart-that-can-bleed are welcomed and are asked for their names and stories, sitting around the fire with connecting scents, transcultural spices and honey wine in colourful company, where you as stranger and ‘other’ are welcomed.
World citizen where are you? As a fugitive from inner affairs in danger of losing the most precious thing, that is covered by status and power You split the world into friends and enemies, us and them, and your heart becomes hard – yet you feel a nomadic yearning for paradise with melancholy and sorrow.
Angela Gilds draagt voor in OBA Reigersbos
The 2025-theme is “Practices of Global Citizenship“, in which artists, philosophers and professionals highlight their practices and visions as global citizens through artistic expressions, blogs, podcasts and videos. The launching of the programme took place on Saturday afternoon, the 25th of January 2025, at the Amsterdam Public Library Reigersbos. With the reopening of the Amor Mundi travelling exhibition of artistic expressions on Global Citizenship, as well as the book presentation of Amor Fati! The QfWf-Soul Circle celebrated global citizenship with many stakeholders from the circles around the Quest for Wisdom foundation, together with visitors of the library: in presenting the QfWf-book with Playing Wisdom for the Cosmopolis the quintessence was stressed of seeing each other as humans instead of state(less) and (un)documented persons. Angela Gilds from the intercultural project group and the QfWf Editorial Board:
The indigenous Surinamese cultural group Wehpokamanong
“World citizenship is open communication between people without judgment. Dignity toward each other, knowing that no matter how different we are, we are in connection with each other and can share this feeling together. Getting to know each other, transferring knowledge and experience, recognizing and acknowledging each other’s qualities. Beautiful journey to undertake together.
Last year was a wonderful year with several workshops aimed at connecting with each other through the art of living. Yodeling, modeling, painting, word art, dance, singing. A rich experience that we will continue and pass on this year. Let your light shine. You are unique!”
Practices of World Citizenship will be highlighted with visual and musical expressions, philosophical and professional perspectives. Contributions for The Golden Ratio in 2025 are forthcoming by Angela Gilds, Chiquita and Michel Odjo Seymonsen, Erik Hoogcarspel, Giovanni Rizzuto, Greg Suffanti, Harm Jaap Hartmans, Mitra Muijen, Nivedita Yohana, Tycho Muijen, Wim van de Laar and more wisdom seekers from the QfWf circles.
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