PRENTAL LAMENT

My boy is sleeping safe in bed
Without a tumour in his head.

No hepatitis, septicaemia.
No lymphoma, no leukaemia.

His heart is strong, his breathing sure.
The marrow in his bones is pure.

No ADD, MS, ME,
CF, MD or HIV.

We drove him safely to his school,
And back again. He swam the pool

Untroubled, laughing, loving it.
No seizure, stroke or fatal fit.

No aircraft engine yet has failed.
No train come lethally derailed.

He moves from trampoline to tree
To bicycle, to skate and ski,

Unharmed, unruffled, innocent.
No injury. No accident.

He sleeps. We sleep. Another day
Is passed in ease. We made more hay.

No horror here, no sudden shark.
No plunge into the depthless dark.

No slip from sunshine into sorrow.
But there’s always tomorrow.
Always tomorrow

 Mike Reed for Dog Ear Magazine

 http://dogear.co.uk/

http://www.selfhelpdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Peace.png

“It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.” 

 

- Kenich Ohmae -

http://www.selfhelpdaily.com/quotes-about-habit/

The Cello Song - (Bach is back with 7 more cellos) - ThePianoGuys

Zopas een leuk stukje gelezen over denken en kapotdenken op  

Ga op wereldreis binnenin jezelf!

Denkkracht ontkracht

Lees meer: http://zebedelia.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/denkkracht-ontkracht/

We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us.
We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts,
and we mistake those mental objects for reality.
We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream
that reality flows by unnoticed.
We spend our time engrossed in activity,
caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness.
We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better,
trying to bury our fears.
We are endlessly seeking security.
Meanwhile,
the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted.

- Henepola Gunaratana - Mindfulness In Plain English -

 http://www.quoty.org/quote/3848

http://everydaypeoplecartoons.com/cartoon/567/Relax-Cartoon

Ik ben wat ik zoek

Precies zoals ik ben

 

Niemand kan het mij leren

 

Ik heb het altijd geweten

- Ann -

http://lukestorms.com/2009/05/07/speak-the-truth/

We would worry less

If we praised more

- Harry A. Ironside -

Bankei kreeg bezoek van een zenleerling die klaagde: 'Meester, ik heb onbeheersbare woedeaanvallen en dan haat ik mezelf en iedereen om me heen. Hoe kan ik ervan afkomen?'

'Dat is een zeer vreemde kwaal,' antwoordde Bankei. 'Laat eens zien.'

'Op dit moment kan ik het u niet laten zien,' antwoordde de leerling.

'Wanneer kun je het me dan laten zien?' vroeg Bankei.

'Het komt onverwacht op,' antwoordde de leerling.

'Dan,' concludeerde Bankei, 'kan het niet je eigen aard zijn. Als dat wel zo was, zou je het op ieder willekeurig moment kunnen laten zien.'

- ZENVERHAAL -

Erik SATIE: Gnossienne No. 4

‘Het moment dat je een ander wantrouwt,

betwijfel je jezelf.'

- Marcel Derkse -

www.denieuwevoorde.nl

http://allengrow.com/category/online-marketing/

Een paar jongetjes vatten het plan op om de schoenen van Nasroedin te stelen.
Ze riepen hem en wezen naar een boom.
 'Niemand kan in die boom klimmen', zeiden ze.
'Iedereen kan dat', zei Nasroedin, 'en ik zal laten zien hoe het moet.'
Hij trok zijn schoenen uit, duwde ze onder zijn riem en klom omhoog.
'Nasroedin,' riepen ze, 'die schoenen heb je toch niet nodig in een boom.'
'Waarom niet?' vroeg Nasroedin.
'Ik zeg altijd dat je overal op voorbereid moet zijn. Wie weet kom ik daarboven wel een weg tegen.'

- Idries Shah - Soefiverhalen -

It is strange, the desire to show off or to be somebody. 

It seems so impossibly difficult to be simple, 

to be what you are, and not pretend. 

To be what you are is in itself very arduous 

without trying to become something, which is not difficult. 

You can always pretend, put on a mask, 

but to be what you are is an extremely complex affair; 

because you are always changing; 

you are never the same and each moment reveals a new facet, 

a new depth, a new surface. 

You can’t be all this at one moment for each moment brings its own change. 

So if you are intelligent, you give up being anything.

- J. Krishnamurti -

http://blog.officedivvy.com/2011/01/somebody-isnt-thinking-patton-photo.html

Oh, the coming-out-of-nowhere moment
when, nothing happens
no what-have-I-to-do-today-list
maybe half a moment
the rush of traffic stops.
The whir of I should be, I should be, I should be
slows to silence,
the white cotton curtains hanging still.

- Marie Howe -  

That’s the big question,
the one the world throws at you every morning.

“Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”

- Mary Oliver - 

Dustin O'Halloran — We Move Lightly

http://vi.sualize.us/tumblr_mdymg6k2qq1rvup6qo1_500_large_picture_CqPm.html

http://germar-camus.blogspot.be/2012/06/integriteit.html

Integer ben je 

wanneer je eerlijk en oprecht bent

wanneer je niet altijd je klak naar de wind zet

wanneer je je niet laat raken door de storm om je heen

wanneer je je niet van je stuk laat brengen door opmerkingen

wanneer je verbonden bent met je eigen kracht 

met je eigen wortels ... jezelf.

- Ann -

Gradually, as you remain open and mindful, and use a technique to focus your mind more and more, your negativity will slowly be defused; you begin to feel well in your own skin, or, as the French say, être bien dans sa peau (“well in your own skin”). From this comes release and a profound ease. I think of this practice as the most effective form of therapy and self-healing.

- Rigpa Glimpse of the day -

Vaak beginnen we pas naar het leven te luisteren als we leed ervaren.

En op de een of andere manier worden we allen voorzien

van de exacte hoeveelheid leed die we nodig hebben om te zien wie we werkelijk zijn.

  -Jeff Foster-

www.inzicht-nu.nl

 

R.I.P. Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad?

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve — the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.
 

- Oscar Niemeyer - 

http://www.nisimazine.eu/Oscar-Niemeyer.html

R.I.P. Jeroen Willems (Zingt Madeleine van Jacques Brel)

http://rishikajain.com/2012/10/12/love-quotei-am-a-strong-person-but/

Dustin O'Halloran - We move Lightly (video by Chrisitna Vantzou)

Nils Frahm - Said And Done

We did not come to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
The trees that are broken
And start again, drawing up on great roots.

- Robert Bly - A Home in Dark Grass -

Angel-A - Je t'aime - met dank aan Frieda!

It is important to reflect calmly, again and again, that death is real and comes without warning.

Don’t be like the pigeon in the Tibetan proverb: He spends all night fussing about, making his bed, and dawn comes up before he has even had time to go to sleep.

- Rigpa Glimpse of the day - 

Ray LaMontagne - Within You

With every rising of the sun, 

Think of your life as just begun. 

The past has shrived and buried deep 

All yesterdays there let them sleep. 

Concern yourself with but today.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox - 

http://aliedwards.com/2010/02/paying-attention.html

Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.

- Henry David Thoreau -

http://rishikajain.com/

Eerste Sneeuw Jan De Wilde

Fresh

To move
Cleanly.
Needing to be
Nowhere else.
Wanting nothing
From any store.
To lift something
You already had
And set it down in
A new place.
Awakened eye
Seeing freshly.
What does that do to
The old blood moving through
Its channels?

~ Naomi Shihab Nye ~

http://naturenewssf.blogspot.be/

Praat niet alleen maar uit ervaring, 

zwijg ook al eens uit ervaring.

R. Hildebrand

 http://kexx.net/citaten/simpleview.php?id=4094