Marius said that the most important thing to him was feeling happy, or, since we talked in German, I would also translate it as “blissful”. Because he explained to me that as a teenager, the main thing for him was to feel “happy”, he used the English word to describe it, and it seemed to be a bit of the young version of the deep bliss that he came to explore along his life.

“I believe in feeling happy/blissful, and living my life to the fullest. You need to be with yourself in yourself. This is where you get the good energy from.

Being in yourself, and you can get there through meditation, or a simple cup of coffee, doing creative stuff, but this presence, this bliss, is what I believe in. This is the essence. No matter what happens. Be right here. Present. This is where you find the bliss. And yes, I would describe this feeling as being ‘high’. You’re on a high.” He told me that he once attended a masterclass by Bobby McFerrin, and that during this masterclass, the essence that he got from the famous singer was just this: the bliss, the presence, the high. “It is encapsulated in his song ‘Don’t worry, be happy’”, Marius said. “This is probably the best description of the feeling that I mean.”

Marius’ smallest is bright, yellow, white, like the sun. High like the sun. It has a lightweight golden particle in the centre, symbolising the self centred in the self, radiating. It is a simple composition, and the message “Don’t worry, be happy” comes over as simply as well. But we all know it can be tremendously difficult! This smallest is a small reminder of the power of simplicity, the power of centering, and the power of light and lightness.