zaterdag 14 juli 2012

I suppose that all of us have a primitive prompter or commentator within, who from earliest years has been advising us, telling us what the real world is. There is such a commentator in me. I have to prepare the ground for him. From this source come words, phrases, syllables; sometimes only sounds, which I try to interpret, sometimes whole paragraphs, fully punctuated.

When E. M. Forster said, “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” he was perhaps referring to his own prompter. There is that observing instrument in us—in childhood at any rate. At the sight of a man’s face, his shoes, the color of light, a woman’s mouth or perhaps her ear, one receives a word, a phrase, at times nothing but a nonsense syllable from the primitive commentator.

- Saul Bellow, The Art of Fiction No. 37 -

Heel Goed Nieuws - SPINVIS

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say,

So what.

That's one of my favorite things to say.

So what.

- Andy Warhol -

http://parkstepp.tumblr.com/page/9

Picture : So What by Roy Lichtenstein

http://w5ran.com/2012/07/resistance-is-futile/

Waarom zou je hengelen naar de goedkeuring van je omgeving.

Het maakt je niet waardevoller dan je al bent en voegt in feite niets wezenlijks toe.

Eventuele afkeuring van anderen neemt ook niets weg van de waardevolle persoon die je bent,

tenzij je dat zélf toestaat.

Het is dus niet iets waar je hoeft mee bezig te zijn en het bespaart je veel energie en tijd.

- Ann -

"Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness.

Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union.

Loneliness is small, solitude is large.

Loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite.

Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody answers; solitude has its roots in the great silence of eternity."

- Kent Nurburn -

http://kentnerburn.com/

proberen niets te proberen

begrijpen niets te begrijpen

dromen niets te dromen

willen niets te willen

verwachten niets te verwachten

denken niets te denken

weten niets te weten

- Ann -

Foto: http://philipdinneweth.wordpress.com/

vrijdag 13 juli 2012

http://nevahsaygood-bye.tumblr.com/post/19529976848/story-of-our-life

- The Aliens - Charles Bukowski -

http://larmoyante.tumblr.com/

“If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to “explain,” which usually implies that the explanation be “understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.”

- Erich Fromm, The Art of Being -

http://echo-of-words.tumblr.com/

http://pinaquote.com/quote/once-in-a-while-it-really-hits-people-that-they-3/

Stevig met je voeten in jezelf staan.

Goed geworteld zijn in jezelf

geeft je de vrijheid om mee te bewegen

met alles wat er om je heen gebeurt

zonder je evenwicht te verliezen of uit balans te raken.

- Ann -

Foto: http://philipdinneweth.wordpress.com/

Toujours Maintenant

Sempre Ora

Always Now

Siempre Ahora

Immer Jetzt

πάντα τώρα

Altijd Nu

- Ann -

Picture: http://undertheapricottree.wordpress.com/2011/10/

http://solitude-sweetsolitude.blogspot.be/

If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things,
then I should have said, "God, why me?"
about the good things that happened in my life.

- Arthur Ashe -

http://www.brainyquote.com

Vergelijk je jezelf wel eens met anderen?

Dat betekent dat je gelooft in een bepaald beeld van jezelf,

en dat je je eigenwaarde aan dat denkbeeld ontleent.

Maar zolang je jezelf ziet als een denkbeeld,

zie je niet wie je werkelijk bent.

- Nin Sheng -

www.inzicht-nu.nl

Stilte plaatst alles om je heen in perspectief.
Stilte is alles wat er is.

http://philipdinneweth.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/img_2802.jpg

donderdag 12 juli 2012

For all those years you’ve protected the seed.

It’s time to become the beautiful flower.

- Stephen C. Paul -

http://dendroica.tumblr.com/

We are so addicted to looking outside ourselves that we have lost access to our inner being almost completely. We are terrified to look inward, because our culture has given us no idea of what we will find. We may even think that if we do, we will be in danger of madness. This is one of the last and most resourceful ploys of ego to prevent us from discovering our real nature.

So we make our lives so hectic that we eliminate the slightest risk of looking into ourselves. Even the idea of meditation can scare people. When they hear the words egoless or emptiness, they think that experiencing those states will be like being thrown out the door of a spaceship to float forever in a dark, chilling void. Nothing could be further from the truth. But in a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nature of our mind is the last thing we would dare to do.

- Rigpa Glimpse of the day -

Planet Earth (Planeta Tierra)

Vanuit de ruimte gezien,

zijn we allen even groot.

- Multatuli -

http://www.citatenverzameling.com/auteurs-453-multatuli.html

Som Sabadell flashmob - Bedankt Anita!

woensdag 11 juli 2012

This is it??

The mind is always telling you

that you need something else to be happy.

This is not the truth.

You need nothing to be happy.

Happiness is your nature.

When you are just in this moment,

you see that nothing is missing.

You have it all.

- Samarpan -

http://philipdinneweth.wordpress.com/

Love comes with a knife,
not with some shy question
and not with fears for its reputation.

- Rumi -

There is nothing to practise.

To know yourself, be yourself.

To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that.

Just be.

Let your true nature emerge.

Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj -

and I am living mine ...

http://www.etsy.com/listing/99761858/you-are-living-your-story-hand-painted

dinsdag 10 juli 2012

If I say Lumos

will he light up?

Picture: http://philipdinneweth.wordpress.com/

Als woorden uit het hart komen, zullen ze het hart binnengaan,

als ze van de tong komen, zullen ze niet verder komen dan de oren.

- Al Suhrawardi -

Er was eens een man die naar Afrika ging.

Hij kwam terecht bij een gezin waar hij hartelijk verwelkomd werd.
Urenlang vertelden ze elkaar over hun leven.
'Ziezo' zei de man, 'nu hebben we elkaar wel goed leren kennen'

'Neen', antwoordde de gastheer uit Afrika, 'helemaal niet, want we zijn nog niet stil geweest met elkaar'.

- vrij naar D. Dewulf in Mindfulness in je relatie -

http://jogis.tumblr.com/page/2

De meeste mensen plannen hun leven minder goed

dan een vakantie van veertien dagen.

- Alexander Christiani -

http://www.rivendellvillage.org/spreuken.htm

maandag 9 juli 2012

Books are mirrors:

you only see in them what you already have inside you.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind -

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.
It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”

- Ray Bradbury -Fahrenheit 451 -

http://robearishere.tumblr.com/post/22001424801

"I not only use all the brains that I have,

but all that I can borrow."

- Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States -

Piekeren is rente betalen over problemen,
nog voor de termijn verstreken is.

William Ralph Inge

http://www.dagelijksegedachte.net/

Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that.
One could even say that the word is never a more magnificent mystery than when, within a man, it travels from his thought to his conscience and returns from his conscience to his thought.
We say to ourselves, we speak to ourselves, we exclaim within ourselves, without breaking the external silence. There is great tumult within; everything within us speaks, except the tongue.
The realities of the soul, though not visible and palpable, are nonetheless realities.

- Victor Hugo -