I made myself a snowball
As perfect as can be.
I thought I’d keep it as a pet,
And let it sleep with me.
I made it some pajamas
And a pillow for it’s head.
Then last night it ran away,
But first - It wet the bed. 

- Shel Silverstein -

http://cleverwordsandotherstuffilike.tumblr.com/day/2016/12/16/

Dit is de fase 

waarin je leert om te gaan 

met instabiliteit.

If you are tense, let the tenseness be tense.

Then tenseness has no substance;

it becomes relaxation.

- Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche -

Treat every moment as your last.

It is not preparation for something else. 

 

- Shunryu Suzuki -

http://thebuddhistspoonie.tumblr.com/post/154520174383/sciencealert-taken-at-baton-rouge-zoo-this

Illness, or a trauma, is not a reflection of an inner shortcoming or failure. It is not a cause to find fault, not with our bodies or ourselves. Illness is another experience, illness is a part of life. It is okay to be unwell. Be gently curious about the experience, pour your love into the places where you are hurting, and see what new awareness blossoms. Every experience offers a gift of deeper understanding and inspiration.

 Quiet Lotus

 

If you were far out in space, you would see that the sun neither rises nor sets, but that it shines continuously.

And yet, even after realizing that, we can continue to speak of the sunrise or sunset, still see its beauty, paint it, write poems about it, even though we now know that it is a relative rather than an absolute truth.

- E. Tolle -

Hoe ouder ik word,

 hoe meer ik begrijp

 dat het OK is 

om een leven te leiden 

dat anderen niet begrijpen.

When you lose touch 

 

with inner stillness,

 

 you lose touch 

 

with yourself.

De natuur 

is voedsel voor de ziel.

 

 

ERVARING

 

 IS WAT JE KRIJGT

 

ALS JE NIET KRIJGT 

 

WAT JE WILT 

 

- Aldous Huxley -

You are going to want to give up. 

Don’t.

 

- Unknown -

They caused the first wound, but you are causing the rest; this is what not forgiving does. 

 

They got it started but you keep it going. 

 

Forgive and let it go, or it will eat you alive. 

 

You think they made you feel this way, but when you won’t forgive, you are the one inflicting the pain on yourself.

 

- Bryant McGill -

Don’t run from a challenge.

 Instead run toward it

 because the only way to escape fear 

is to trample it beneath your feet.

 

- Nadia Comaneci -

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/

You are me, and I am you.
Isn’t it obvious that we “inter-are”?

You cultivate the flower in yourself,
so that I will be beautiful.

I transform the garbage in myself,
so that you will not have to suffer.

I support you;
you support me.

I am in this world to offer you peace;
you are in this world to bring me joy.



– Thich Nhat Hanh -

If you’re hurt by how others deal with you, 

seek to change yourself not them.

 

 If you do, 

you will see that all the pain

 is turning into pleasure and gain.

 

 

- Shaykh Dr. Muhammad bin Yahya al-Husayni al-Ninowy -

 

 

 

The way we talk to our children

 

 becomes their inner voice.

 

 

- Peggy O’Mara -

When you don't want to be interesting

you are free.

- Mooji -

Ik ontdek steeds meer

 dat het niet gaat om leren van je fouten, 

maar accepteren dat je ze maakt. 

- Stephan Ledder-

 

IT HURTS 

BECAUSE IT MATTERS 

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you,

 instead of trying to defend yourself you should say:

 “He obviously does not know me very well, 

since there are so many other faults 

he could have mentioned”

 

 - Epictetus -

I haven’t lost any friends;

 I’ve just discovered 

who my true friends are.

 

- Unknown -

There are two ways to be.

 

 One is at war with reality

 

 and the other one is at peace.

 

 

- Byron Katie -

All religions, all this singing, one song.

 The differences are just illusion and vanity.

 Sunlight looks a little different

 on this wall than it does on that wall

 and a lot different on this other one, 

but it is still one light.  

- Rumi -

'Zal het me ooit lukken alles goed te doen?'

'Neen'

'Maar je zult eraan wennen dat je niet volmaakt kunt zijn.'

- Uit Verhalen van Levenskunst - Stephan de Jong - 

The wheel of change moves on,

 and those who were down go up

 and those who were up go down.

 

- J. Nehru - 

 

 

 

The bad things in life 

open your eyes 

to see the good things 

we weren’t paying attention to before.

   

Nature

 

is not a place to visit. 

 

It is home.  

 

-  Gary Snyder -

A man can fail many times,

 but he isn’t a failure

 until he begins to blame somebody else.  

 

- John Burroughs -

To know

that we know what we know,

and to know

that we do not know what we do not know,

that is true knowledge.

- Nicolaus Copernicus-

 

 

 

Mediteren gaat niet over onszelf wegsmijten en beter worden.

Het is bevriend worden met wie we al zijn.

- Pema Chodron-