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“The wounds of the past have sacrificed the heart. The mind has cramped closed. The body has entrophied in hard-bellied distrust. But the feeling of loss, and being lost, eventually gets our attention and we see that no one can make us happy but us. And we begin to take responsibility. We begin to build the capacity to respond instead of react. And we focus on our resistance and recognize that relationship is work on ourselves. Taking “the whole catastrophe of relationship” into your merciful heart and investigative mind so that the next one will not be a repeat of the last one.” – Stephen and Ondrea Levine

Carta aberta a Robert Enke

"Your death to us is still omni-present. It has made us all speechless, stunned, helpless.

"We were stunned when we got the unbearable news. We were not able to put our grief into words. We were not able to play football a few days later.

"We could simply not go about business as usual. We all needed to realise this moment of calm in order to realise what has happened - to properly understand - perhaps we never will.

"We have long sat together and thought of you. We have been silent together, cried together and searched for answers together, but in fact found only more questions of 'Why could we not help you? Why did you not want to talk to us about your problems? Why is it that in our competitive society it is not possible to express fears over such illnesses?

"It is for all of us a painful thought that you felt so alone and in need, even though you were with us.

"For you there was so much more at stake than for any other of us. Your death is so bleak but we will do everything we can to carry on in your memory, play good football to be successful. And we will do our best to ensure that stigma and prejudice have no place in football."