Wanneer we, op de pijnlijke plekken waar we gekwetst zijn 

en waar we ons hebben teruggetrokken, 

niet in staat zijn te vergeven, blijven we slachtoffer van het verleden.

Alleen door liefdevol te zijn
naar zowel onze kwet­singen als onze ouders, 

kunnen we ons daad­werkelijk verzoenen met ons leven.

De kernvraag is hier:

willen wij liefdevol zijn waar de wereld niet liefdevol was?

PAULA VAN LAMMEREN & RIANNE VAN RIJSEWIJK

"I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it."

– Patti Smith -

Natuur - schoonheid - dankbaarheid

Je denkt dat dit gewoon een andere dag in je leven. 
Maar het is niet zomaar een dag. 
Het is de enige dag die wordt gegeven aan u vandaag …. 
Het is de enige die je nu hebt.  
En de enige passende reactie is dankbaarheid.

- David Steindl-Rast -

Zolang je leeft en kunt ademen

is er meer goed met je dan er mis is.

 

JON KABAT-ZINN

 

 

 

 

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/75921286070/0ce4n-g0d-hana-d

Eerlijk naar jezelf kijken, 
zonder harde oordelen te vellen 
en zonder jezelf te beschadigen...

Vrij naar Pema Chödron

De kunst van het wachten: 

 

neem de tijd.

- onbekend -

 

 

 

 

http://theonetrueself.tumblr.com/post/75999266705

When you’ve lost everything, 

you’ve got nothing to lose.

- Ken Follett -

 

 

 

And people get all fouled up 

because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… 

 

As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, 

as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. 

You are meaning.

 

- Alan Watts -

http://outcamethesun.tumblr.com/post/75890737249

And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, 

“This is important! 

And this is important!

 And this is important! 

You need to worry about this! 

And this! 

And this!”

 And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, 

put it on your heart and say,

 “No. 

This is what’s important.”

 

- Iain S. Thomas -

Letting go is the lesson. 

Letting go is always the lesson.

– Susan Gordon Lydon -

http://these-teen-quotes.tumblr.com/post/75806997174/motivational-quotes

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus. 

That alone should make us love each other, 

but it doesn’t. 

We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, 

we are eaten up by nothing.

 - Charles Bukowski -

Zware tijden 

blijven niet duren.

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/75920165889/browndresswithwhitedots-william-wegman

Understand

 

 that not everything is meant 

to be understood. 

 

 

 

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/75861673256

Ik denk me blij

Ik denk me bang

Ik denk m'n dagen

Kort of lang

Maar waar ik nooit aan heb gedacht,

heeft mij vaak geluk gebracht.

- Toon Hermans -

Angst voor het onbekende

The less I needed, 

 

the better I felt. 

- Charles Bukowski -

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/75834898048/brutal-integrity-just-gorgeous

Now and then

 it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness

and just be happy.

- Guillaume Apollinaire -

The cells of our body are dying, the neurons in our brain are decaying, 
even the expressions on our face are always changing, depending on our mood. 
What we call our basic character is only a “mindstream,” nothing more. 
Today we feel good because things are going well; 
tomorrow we feel the opposite. 
Where did that good feeling go?

What could be more unpredictable than our thoughts and emotions: 
Do you have any idea what you are going to think or feel next? 
The mind, in fact, is as empty, as impermanent, and as transient as a dream.
 Look at a thought: It comes, it stays, and it goes. 
The past is past, the future not yet risen, 
and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past.  
The only thing we really have is now.

 - Rigpa Glimpse of the day - 

Leer van de natuur; 
hoe alles gedaan wordt
en hoe het wonder van het leven 
zich ontvouwt
zonder ontevredenheid of ongelukkigheid.

- Eckhart Tolle, De kracht van het Nu -

 

http://sildiogo.tumblr.com/image/75080469211

‘I do not know’ 
is the only true statement 
the mind can make.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

Time you enjoy waisting, 

is not waisted 

- John Lennon - 

http://these-teen-quotes.tumblr.com/post/75705976040/motivational-quotes

I've been thinking about something for a long time, 

and I keep noticing that most human speech 

- if not all human speech - 

is made with the outgoing breath. 

This is the strange thing about presence and absence. 

When we breathe in, our bodies are filled with nutrients and nourishment. 

Our blood is filled with oxygen, our skin gets flush; 

our bones get harder - they get compacted. 

Our muscles get toned and we feel very present 

when we're breathing in. 

The problem is, that when we're breathing in, we can't speak. 

So presence and silence have something to do with each other.

 - Li-Young Lee -

http://teenagepics.tumblr.com/post/75779620652/if-youre-a-teen-you-must-follow-this-blog

I know that I am intelligent,

 

 

because I know that I know nothing.

 

- Socrates -

 

 

 

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/75775569511/llbwwb-hello-attitude-is-everything-by

Today,
Forget your past.
Forgive yourself.
And start again.

 http://onlinecounsellingcollege.tumblr.com/post/75373452317/today-forget-your-past-forgive-yourself-and

naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/75696543547/beautiful-wildlife-polar-wolf-by-yair-leibovich

If you aren’t amazed most of the time 

 

you aren’t paying attention.

 

- Michael Lipsey -

The sun never says to the earth:

 ‘You owe me.’ 

Look what happens with a love like that. 

It lights up the whole sky.

- Hafiz -

Herinneringen - Tobi Zausner 1981

Een goed geheugen is een straf
als je geen goede herinneringen hebt.

Ein gutes Gedächtnis ist eine Strafe, 
wenn man keine gute Erinnerungen hat.

Robert Lembke

http://moonlightriver.com/set-your-life-on-fire/

De beste dag in je leven is de dag 

waarop je besluit dat het leven van jou is. 

Geen verontschuldigingen of excuses.

Niemand meer om op te leunen,

die je aanstuurt of die je kan beschuldigen.

Het leven wordt je gegeven en is een cadeau.

Alleen jij bent verantwoordelijk voor de kwaliteit

van je leven. 

Vandaag is de dag dat je leven echt begint. 

- Bob Moawad - 

http://weheartit.com/entry/24710224

Een goede leraar werpt je terug op jezelf 

en op een gevoel van niet-weten.

Hij bewerkstelligt dat je je eigen waarheid 

gaat volgen.

- Onbekend - 

Water doet groeien ...


http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/

Everybody gets so much information all day long 

that they lose their common sense. 

- Gertrude Stein -

 

http://creatingaquietmind.tumblr.com/image/75501335452

Being brave means you are scared, 

 

really scared, 

 

badly scared, 

 

and you do the right thing anyway.

 

 

 

- Neil Gaiman -

 

 

 

 

Als we afspreken in het NU 

zijn we dan samen?

Of is jouw NU

anders dan mijn NU?

- Ann -

She is detached from all things;
that is why she is one with them.
Because she has let go of herself,
she is perfectly fulfilled.

- Tao Te Ching -

http://theonetrueself.tumblr.com/post/75492532518

The real is near, you do not have to seek it; 

and a man who seeks truth will never find it. 

Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. 

But the moment you conceive it, 

the moment you seek it, 

you begin to struggle; 

and a man who struggles cannot understand. 

That is why we have to be still, 

observant, passively aware.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti -

http://www.schenkaandacht.nu/

http://www.schenkaandacht.nu/

http://ponderation.tumblr.com/post/75462845983/wonderous-world-little-white-knight-by-rudy

Je ware zelf ...

Is je ZELF waar?

 

 

 

What you ARE

is what you HAVE BEEN

What you'll BE 

is what you do NOW 

- Boeddha - 

http://thingsthatsing.tumblr.com/image/75417319447

HOE HAAL JE HET UIT JE HOOFD?

http://sonrie-vive-coexiste.tumblr.com/post/75393244972

Don’t explain your philosophy. 

Embody it. 

- Epictetus -

http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/details.asp?c=68002

A lot of deaths feel sad. 

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s feels like a robbery.

 - James Poniewozik -

miasikowska

ik ben de moeilijkste puzzel 

die ik ooit gemaakt heb

Het vermogen tot genieten ligt in
de gave van aandacht.

- Julia Cameron -

 

 www.dagelijksegedachte.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

The less routine

the more of life.

 A B Alcott

http://wildography.tumblr.com/post/75237439103/biomorphosis-hello-to-my-new-followers-xoxo

The unreal is more powerful than the real. 

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

 Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. 

Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. 

But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, 

they can go on and on. 

If you can change the way people think, 

the way they see themselves, 

the way they see the world 

— you can change the way people live their lives. 

That’s the only lasting thing you can create. 

 

- Chuck Palahniuk, Choke -

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/26740191511737386/

We are here and it is now. 

Further than that, 

all human knowledge is moonshine.

 

- H.L. Mencken -

http://www.jacksonfineart.com/private_artist.php?id=12&imageid=263

You can’t calm the storm…

so stop trying. 

What you can do is calm yourself. 

The storm will pass.

- Timber Hawkeye -