Excerpt from Foreword by Narayana Moorty Ph.D

I have always thought that Ulla has the uncanny ability to stay above the mundane. She is composed, brief in speech, definite, precise, yet supple in movement, taking nourishment from nature, skilled in the arts and, above all, abundant in love. If you have known her for any length of time, you could see how her poems reflect her presence. They radiate serenity just as she does. No wonder they have that feel of spontaneity and inevitability about them, as though they just came out of her without her actually sitting there and composing them.

The book could be called not just Beyond Poetry, but Beyond Philosophy, Religion and Spirituality as well. The work is an exercise in the transcendence of duality. The poems in the book are a reminder to each of us that we are all an expression of One Being and that all our struggles of existence are a result of losing sight of that fact. They call us back to our primary existence where we live and act as one being, instead of being torn apart and asunder by thought-created structures and values.

Consciousness or Being expresses itself through thought as the multifarious world, and with thought the self is born. The self divides itself from the world and from others and strives for fulfillment. But if thoughts are not owned, if they merely watched and let go, they lose the ability to divide, and then we are back to what we were in the first place, namely, a Nothing which is also Being.

There are no struggles in this primary existence. Nor is there any need for fulfillment or enlightenment. We are already fulfilled, even if we may never know that. But this requires that we give up all effort and hope, that we cease from any attempt to change a given situation or ourselves as we are, and fully accept what is. Then our thoughts, i.e., our past, will simmer down on their own. It is still possible that discrete elements from our past may show themselves up from time to time, and perhaps even frequently. It may even seem as if the wheel of the past would never stop rolling into our consciousness. But it is our acceptance of what is and indifference to it, and not our attempt to change it into something better or be carried away by it, that enables us to remain in the present and watch the appearance and disappearance of the past as a show. That way, we can have a glimpse of the Unity of Being.

Above was a partial excerpt from forword......