THE ESCAPE - WHY WE OFTEN NEVER TRULY ARRIVE WITHIN OURSELVES
On Freedom, Restlessness and the Need to Keep Moving
This is Volume 5 of the "Our Time" series.
A young man runs through a narrow passage between high walls.
Behind him lie fences, watchtowers and locked doors.
Ahead of him, the East Berlin Television Tower rises above the city.
It looks like freedom.
But not every escape ends where the walls stop.
Some people leave a place.
Others leave a relationship.
Others leave their profession.
And some keep starting over, unable to say exactly what they are searching for.
This book is about freedom, new beginnings, change and the question of why so many people never fully arrive inwardly, despite new places, new relationships and new opportunities.
Drawing on personal experiences – from imprisonment in East Germany to professional success and collapse, and years spent living in a motorhome in Australia and New Zealand – it offers a quiet reflection on life crises, orientation, self-discovery and the search for inner peace.
What is it that we are really searching for?
This is not a book about quick solutions or ready-made answers.
It is about the fear of silence.
The longing for freedom.
Relationships, loss, work, independence and the question of why outward change often only masks inner restlessness for a while.
This book invites you to look more closely.
Without pressure.
Without self-optimisation.
Without new rules.
Instead, it offers a quiet perspective on modern life and the forces that drive so many people without them fully understanding why.
You can now read a sample of “THE ESCAPE” on Amazon.
Topics covered in this book:
• Freedom and escape
• New beginnings and change
• Life crises and finding direction
• Self-discovery and inner peace
• Loneliness and closeness
• Relationships and loss
• Work, success and exhaustion
• Motorhome living and travel
• Meditation and mindfulness
• The search for one’s place in life
For people who are going through a period of change, embarking on a new beginning, seeking greater inner peace or wondering why, despite outward freedom, they never quite feel at home within themselves.
Bernhard Christoph Lichtinger writes from lived experience – from setbacks, detours, new beginnings and encounters that do not need to be invented. His books emerge from the places where real life leaves its marks.
If you have not yet read a volume from the book series “OUR TIME”, you can begin with one of the following books. Each volume stands on its own and explores a different aspect of our lives.
Volume 2: THE DOG CATCHERS OF BLENHEIM
Volume 4: THE WORLD IN THE MIND
Volume 5: not yet published