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Every human enters this life and begins a journey. The path traveled is unique to each individual, and for some, the main streets and popular thoroughfares provide all thats needed to nourish a life well livedfood, fuel, friendship, family. For others, though, there is a desirein fact, a needfor something more.
In the form of a wandering, lyrical, autobiographical narrative, world-renowned horseman Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling exposes the inner turmoil, the burning questions, the fear, the doubt, and the darkness that pushed him off the roads most traveled in search of answers. In search of meaning. As he reflects on cultures past and his present surroundings, his words linger on visual, sensual, and inspirational clues, bringing his personal experiences alive on the page in emotional detail. His thoughts string together like clicking beads, brilliantly illustrating the passage of time and the interconnectivity of all beings. And ultimately, Hempfling comes to a truth, which for him brings heaven and earth into sharp focus. It is the horses that show him the way.
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THE MESSAGE
FROM THE HORSE
ALSO BY
Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling
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BOOKS
Dancing with Horses
What Horses Reveal
The Horse Seeks Me
DVDs
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THE MESSAGE
FROM THE HORSE
Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling
Translated by David Walser
First published in the English language in 2015 by
Trafalgar Square Books
North Pomfret, Vermont 05053
Originally published in the German language as Die Botschaft der Pferde by Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co., Stuttgart
Copyright 1995, 2015 Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling
English translation 2015 Trafalgar Square Books
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, by any means, without written permission of the publisher, except by a reviewer quoting brief excerpts for a review in a magazine, newspaper, or website.
Disclaimer of Liability
The author and publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book. While the book is as accurate as the author can make it, there may be errors, omissions, and inaccuracies.
Trafalgar Square Books encourages the use of approved safety helmets in all equestrian sports.
ISBN: 978-1-57076-748-7
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015948722
Book design by Lauryl Eddlemon
Cover design by RM Didier
Cover photos courtesy of Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling
Typeface: Electra
Printed in Canada
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It is not the truth that a person feels he
possesses but the quality of the effort he
has made to get behind the truth.
That is what measures a mans worth.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Part I
The Silent Ones Message
Part II
The Soft Breeze Wafted Over the Lake
Part III
The Sun Follows Its Course and the Scents of Nature Respond to Its Passage
Part IV
He Is Not There to Carry Mans Grief
Part V
They Called It The Other World
THE SULTRY AIR HUNG above us like a sponge about to be squeezed. The animals and the rest of us waited, as if we all shared the same thought: when might a deafening thunderclap bring it to an end? My breath was short and fast; a cold sweat ran down my spine.
The old monk sat facing me in his armchair, his gaze fixed on the infinite. Barely perceptibly, his lips began to move.
You have come to learn from me. That is good. But you are expecting explanations. That is not good. How does it help to smother everything in words? Of course, people feel at home when you do so: it is the disease of our times.
What you and others are looking for cannot be reached by words alone. It is alien and new, as unique as every individual is in this world.
To reach a true understanding with the tools we are given is almost impossible. We have to venture into the unknown and this requires courage, strength, and an open, watchful spirit. Fear of the boundaries of this new land is the chief enemy. The truth you seek recognizes no frontiers. You must be willing to go in any direction.
The old mans breathing was as regular and calm as his speech. His gaze appeared to be concentrated on something invisible to my eyes. After a long pause he continued.
And how do you recognize the truth? Truth is life itself. That is why it is powerful and dangerous: where the day is, there can be no night. Truth leads you back to yourself and to all that is natural. It cures your dependency and drives away the dark fruit of your fears.
How do you set out on this quest for the truth? You must first abandon the little room that gives you your feeling of security but imprisons you. You will begin to understand the truth when you seek it with all your senses, with your entire being
He turned his level gaze on me as he went on, My words alone can never explain it all to you. They can only scratch the surface of all the wisdom spoken by the sages of old. Their true worth stays hidden.
And where is it hidden? Where can I find it? I asked impatiently.
Where can you find it? he murmured as his gaze once again focused on something infinitely distant. Then, almost in a whisper, he continued, Everything, however far apart, is connected.
And how does this answer what I am looking for?
You asked me where you would find the truth. You are finding it this very instant. You will find it in what people flippantly call nothingness.
After a while I rose to my feet and left. The monk sat silent and motionless.
The Silent Ones Message
IT IS EARLY EVENING and thoughts are forming in my mind without leading in any particular direction. It is not so that in this world all our thoughts are somehow part of a planned design and lead to an expected conclusion. No, they often come on silent footsteps, leading us in directions we had not planned or foreseen. They come as quietly as my horses gentle breathing and sometimes last no longer than a single breath.
My horse is white, with a black mane. He is still a young stallion, but I see time creeping up on him as his mane pales a little more each year. As I feel him beneath me and think about him, life and death no longer hold any terrors. I am part of this horse and we experience life together: not life as perhaps I should see it but, dare I say it, life as it really is.
I live in this magic environment: the fire-red stones, the precipitous cliffs, the desiccated vegetation, the tortuous channels gouged out by winter streams that for a short time spring into life; the golden sands that light up and glitter with the low autumnal sun lying on the horizon; the iron-rich rocks that seem to have split or exploded and demonstrate a degree of hidden strength that one cannot ignoreindeed, a force that I take in with every breath.
This is where I live, in the valley of the ravens. On the horizon, gigantic rock formations reach into the sky as if being drawn upward to share in the might of the heavens. The landscape is peppered with ancient ruins, half-collapsed walls of old forts and dwellings, all woven together by the magicians of past centuriesfragmentary quotations that describe the passing of time but still radiate strength, life, and beauty.
I feel blessed to live here in this land called Catalonia, which reaches from the Spanish foothills of the Pyrenees, up over the precipitous mountains and down into the French plains.
On evenings like this I while away the hours in my horses company on the little terrace in front of the old house, breathing in the unparalleled beauty of this corner of the world. I know my horse also feels the energy these moments give us, and the resulting calm that settles on us. I allow my gaze to wander, taking in every new detail of a landscape that is picking itself up after the energy-crushing dryness and heat of the endless summer months. Here and there, flashes of green announce the imminent arrival of the wet period, the fleeting springtime before the crushing heat of the sun returns for another year.
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