Why I started calling myself "Fürstin" in 2010

[Marianne Kieffer]

 

I read or heard that a "Fürst" was in old times someone who went first, especially when riding towards a battle. Well, those days passed, and then a Fürst was someone who inherited the riches, the lands, the people living on those lands and paying taxes, from his family.

 

Now I mean "Fürstin" in the original way it was meant: I am someone who goes first - into battles or into experiments with new ways of life, into new world visions, new explanations, new ways of social work, new ways of fighting bugs and bacteria ... there you may notice that I am half joking and half serious. We should be able to laugh about ourselves.

 

So my self-given title "Fürstin Marianne Zamani-Kieffer" is also half jokingly and half serious. And so it is right. Kieffer was the name of my father, it means barrelmaker (for the wine), comes from the Holy Land. Zamani is the family name my Afghan husband proposed when we got married, because according to Afghan tradition he did not have a family name. He was Abdul Ghafoor, son of Mohammed Zaman. Zaman means: time. I accepted this name. Time is a fundamental condition in this world. My mother's mother had the family name Meysembourg, which was in old times a noble Eastern German name, von Meysemburg. But what does it mean, as compared to the value of the real qualities of a person?

 

Anybody who knows me, will know how much work I do myself, with my hands and my feet, carrying the donated things, like food, clothes, and anything useful or not useful, sorting them, packing them, storing them, distributing them, taking them to flea markets;

 

and how long I speak to people who ask questions, or need advice and consoling and encouragement, and how many nights I run around on street-work, taking along my self-written, self-published, self-produced newspapers plus those of friends and their flyers, to inform people about our work, so that they know why they put coins into my fund-raising box;

 

and how much I always pay with my own money, rents and cars and everything that is required, the flowers on the windows and so on, the fuel to drive homeless people to hospitals and visit them there and watch over the treatment they get, and motivate them to get out of addiction and care for themselves;

 

and anybody who ever talked to me knows how much I research and find ways to solve problems with scientific knowledge, and with knowledge from all kinds of traditions, from all religions and engaged organizations I ever met, and I met many because I was always busy around and interested in those people who came accross my way, and I liked to listen to them, to study their publications, to join their meetings;

 

and so, I accumulated a lot of experiences and knowledge, and when someone presents his problem to me, I often have a surprising solution, and it often works.

 

And continuously, I work on my own development, I take time for meditation and prayer, for physical, mental, psychological and spiritual hygiene, besides also helping others to get along with their mess.

 

And I do not take a dominant attitude towards anyone, I let people be themselves, or encourage them to start being themselves, to move and grow by their own motivation. I do not judge about anyone. We all do mistakes, did mistakes in the past. Anything that happens to someone might have happened to ourselves. Even if not in this life, then perhaps in other lives. All beings that exist are just other forms of ourselves, because we are all one.

 

So I do not carry the title "Fürstin" because I would like to boast. I want to help people get oriented about me. There was too much of "Judas syndrome" over years and years, my family, my friends, those whom I helped, who lived in my community houses, doubted about me, felt ashamed for me, although they loved me, but they believed others who looked more important should be considered more than me.

 

I am what I am. I know what I am. It is a matter of physical facts, not that I try to show off or to do great efforts to win something. I have already won. It was very clear at the time of my call in 1984. It just passes to materialisation and I watch a bit over it because I know the rules, I watch over it like over children that I grow and that I love.

 

I will leave this world one day, and the game will continue without my presence. And then what? Try to learn now whatever you can, because you have your part of responsibility, and the result of your life will be the fruit you eat yourself. I hope you will dare to look into the mirror that will show your reality in the end. Or if you feel you are afraid, start changing now. It's up to you to become what you will like to be.

 

Everyone is the king of his life! Love yourself, believe in yourself! And love the others, believe in the others! Love and respect life in itself! What is God? Your life is one day in the life of God. Then you will have other days. You are not separated from God. Become healthy and happy by knowing who you are and who you can be!

 

I love you!

Marianne