When Red Balloons Fly | Kingston 2015

Iedere gebeurtenis herhaalt zich nooit exact.

 Elke keer is weer nieuw. 

 Elke keer opnieuw kijken, waarnemen.

 En ook elke keer is er een vrije keuze om daarin te handelen.

 

 Plak je een etiket op een mens, een gebeurtenis of serie van…., 

dan ga je naar je 'minkant' en blijf je in dat beeld hangen. 

 

Herken je dat je het doet?

 

 Kijk dan met een nieuwe blik en handel daar naar. 

Dan ga je naar je 'pluskant'.

 

 

- Jan de Dreu -

 

 

 

 

 

You don’t know why you’re exhausted? 

You’re fighting a war inside your head every single day.

 If that’s not exhausting I don’t know what is.

 

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Strong women lift each other up! 

 

 http://libbyvanderploeg.tumblr.com/post/140685137904/strong-women-lift-each-other-up-happy

Quand plusieurs routes s’offriront à toi et que tu se sauras pas laquelle choisir, n’en prends pas une au hasard, mais assieds-toi et attends. 

 

Respire profondément, avec confiance, comme le jour où tu es venue au monde, sans te laisser distraire par rien, attends encore et encore. 

 

Ne bouge pas, tais-toi et écoute ton cœur…

 

Puis, quand il te parlera, lève-toi et va où l te porte.

 

 - Susanna Tamaro -

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You yourself make the waves in your mind.

 

 If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. 

 

This mind is called big mind. 

 

- Shunryu Suzuki -

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Het maakt niet uit waar je bent, 

overal kom je jezelf tegen.

- Emile Snellen van Vollenhoven - 

Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

 

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~ 

It’s good to leave each day behind,

like flowing water, free of sadness.

Yesterday is gone and its tale told.

Today new seeds are growing.

- Rumi -

 

 

 

I realized there was no way out,

so I sat down

and made myself comfortable in the darkness.

- Jacob Holguin -

 

 

 

There’s a huge amount of freedom 

that comes to you 

when you take nothing personally.

- Don Miguel Ruiz -

Sometimes in life,

we need a few bad days

in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

- Colleen Hoover-

Tegenspoed 

 

is gymnastiek voor de ziel.

 

- auteur onbekend -

Je bent alleen bang om te vallen als je denkt dat je niet kunt vliegen.

LULLABY FOR THE SEEKER

Rest, weary one.
Lay your head down.
You have travelled far.
I have no clever words for you.
No system to teach.
No image to maintain.
You’ll find no philosophy here.
No answers to your many questions.
I offer only presence.
Sanctuary.
A bed. A meal.
A small kindness to repay yours.
I am no better than you.
My guru is life.
My lineage is love.
I do not separate
the enlightened from the unenlightened.
I teach nothing I do not live.
I quote not from books but from the cracks in the heart.
I see your fragility yet I see your immense power.
You are not broken.
Don’t let them tell you
that you are broken.
We met long ago when dust settled to form worlds.
I think I saw your courage then.
Close your eyes; I will keep watch tonight.

- ​ Jeff Foster  -



 

Through the day, different energies will dance in you.
Anger, fear, sorrow, shame.
Like smoke filling a room,
they will obscure
who you really are.
There is nothing to be done
when this dance commences.
We do not know where the fire burns.
All we see is the smoke.
When this happens,
as Mooji says,
keep only your eyes alive.
Do not wait.
Do not wait.
If you can welcome these energies
then bow deeply before them.
The smoke will clear on its own
when the fire goes out.
The room will be still again.
Relief will come.
And then may again go.
Nothing to be done.
Remember:
You are the room.
You are not the smoke.

 ashramof1:

'Het is vandaag mijn dag niet!' 

Wie dat kan zeggen heeft nog geluk: bij veel mensen duurt dit gevoel langer dan maar één dag. 

Ze moeten leven met ongelukkig-zijn; ze kiezen er niet zelf voor.

Verergerd wordt deze toestand nog door een tijd die mensen doet geloven dat ze voortdurend gelukkig moeten zijn. 

- Wilhelm Schmidt - 

Uit 'Ongelukkig zijn. Een aanmoediging'

Af en toe kruip ik in mijn schulp.

Allow

Allow

Allow yourself your sorrow.
Allow yourself your rage.
Allow yourself your shame.
Allow yourself your fear.
Allow yourself your regret.
Allow yourself your past.
Allow yourself to slump.
Allow your face to crumple.
Allow your feelings out of their cages
and let them run in your body.
Keep a mother’s eye on them.
But allow.
Don’t shackle.
It makes monsters out of mice.

 http://ashramof1.tumblr.com/post/124653881142

I’ll ride the wave

where it takes me.

- Eddie Vedder -

I don’t care how hard this is,

 I don’t care how disappointed I am,

 I’m not going to let this get the best of me.

- Joel Osteen -

Als je vertrekt van vooroordelen, van verkeerde beelden, 

ben je als een reiziger die probeert zijn weg te vinden

 

met een verkeerde landkaart.

 

 

- Manu Keirse - Zie de mens - 

 

 

 

True freedom

is understanding

that we have a choice 

in who and what we allow 

to have power over us. 


https://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/02/this-empowering-quote-by-not-meryl-streep-just-lifted-my-life-a-little/

Stop thinking your way through life,

 

 always trying to work it out before living it. 

 

Life is to be lived, not analyzed to death.

 

If you ever start taking things too seriously, 

just remember that we are talking monkeys

 on an organic spaceship

 flying through the universe. 

 

- Joe Rogan -

 

 

 

Because in our culture we overvalue the intellect, we imagine that to become enlightened demands extraordinary intelligence.

 

 In fact, many kinds of cleverness are just further obscurations. There is a Tibetan saying: “If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely.”

Patrul Rinpoche said: “The logical mind seems interesting, but it is the seed of delusion.” People can become obsessed with their own theories and miss the point of everything. 

 

In Tibet we say: “Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.”

 

   purplebuddhaproject

 

 

 

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Crossroads

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 -

I will never know 

how you see red

 and you will never know

 how I see it.

- Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red -

You build on failure. 

You use it as a stepping stone. 

Close the door on the past.

 You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it.

 You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

- Johnny Cash -

Alles is op loopafstand,

als je maar genoeg tijd hebt. 

- Steven Wright -