People will do anything,

no matter how absurd,

in order to avoid facing their own souls.

- Carl Jung -

If you wish to see the truth
then hold no opinion for or against.

The struggle of what one likes
And what one dislikes
Is the disease of the mind…

- Sosan -

As long as there is wanting in you, 

especially for someone or something to make you happy, 

paradoxically, 

this is a sure way to make yourself feel lacking

and therefore miserable.

- Mooji -

When someone is going through a storm,

 

 your silent presence is more powerful 

 

than a million empty words.

- Thelma Davis -

I don’t have to be anything at all.

 I don’t even have to be myself, 

because there is no such thing

 as not being myself.

 I am inescapably myself.

- Mooji -

The more you know who you are, 

and what you want, 

the less you let things upset you.

 

- Stephanie Perkins -

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

- Albert Einstein -

Life is simple.

Believing our thoughts

is the only complication.

- Byron Katie -

How Society Crush Dreams & Kill Creativity

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; 

 

you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

The soul usually knows what to do to heal itself. 

The challenge is to silence the mind.

- Caroline Myss -

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity

 cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, 

no matter how much effort you make.

 

- Eckhart Tolle -

What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. 

 

To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. 

 

We must remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

 

-  T.S. Eliot -

 

NITCH

 

People don’t want to solve their problems or their dramas.

 

 Because they are also their distractions.

 

 If you fix all your mess all you have left is the big, scary unknown.

- Chuck Palahniuk -

There’s no need to feel out of place, for your place is everywhere.

 

 Your home is not in one place or another, but is instead within you.

 

 It goes where you go, it is a part of you, and you are an irreplaceable part of this universe. 

 

- Nicole Addison - 

 

 

 

The best years of your life

 are the ones in which you decide

 your problems are your own.

 You do not blame them

 on your mother, the ecology, or the president.

 You realize that you control

 your own destiny. 

- Albert Ellis -

Zoek geen geluk, want je zoekt je een ongeluk.

Taco Sjoerd Bijlsma

Stress, anxiety and depression

 are caused

 when we live to please others.

- Paulo Coelho -

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

 

 "My mother didn't love me." So what... 

 

"I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.

 

 I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. 

 

It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

 

- Andy Warhol - 

 

NITCH 

 

Nobody realizes

that some people expend tremendous energy

merely to be normal.

- Albert Camus -

De spiegel zelf ziet niets -

ze reflecteert alleen.

- Auteur onbekend - 

Het grootste risico 

is de gemiste kans. 

- J.L.M. Konter - 

Herman van Veen - Later

... Later

Later gaan wij naast elkaar wandelen op de overtoom
Drinken zoete melk met room, strijken door ons grijze haar
Zie je ons daar samen lopen, naast elkaar zo diep bedaard
Jij een lieve ouwe taart, ik nog kras dat is te hopen

Maar al worden we ook wrakken, al dat vreselijke snoeven
Zal tenminste niet meer hoeven gaar of muf we zijn gebakken
En we zeggen kijk de tram of hoor jij die vogel zingen?
Al die nutteloze dingen want het hoeft niet meer ad rem

En het hoeft niet meer zo rap, want we moeten nergens heen
Och we wonen toch alleen in zo'n rothuis met een trap
Ik beloof je dat ik dan het attent zijn aan zal leren
En ik zal ook vaak proberen of jij nog wel lachen kan
Lachen als een oude dame, die haar zegje heeft gezegd
Die als zij wordt afgelegd zich voor niemand hoeft te schamen

Wel, wel, wel, zo zal dat gaan en we sterven heel bedaard
Op een donderdag in maart, tegelijk daar hecht ik aan
En als onze aardse last met de wereld gaat vergroeien
Zal uit jou een bloempje bloeien, een viooltje dat staat vast

Tekst: Simon Carmiggelt, muziek: Herman van Veen

You only have to forgive once.

 To resent,

 you have to do it all day,

 every day.

- M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans -

Learn to be silent when everything else is an uproar. 

 

Be the stillness within the constant motion. 

 

- Nicole Addison - 

 

 

 

Arvo Part - Berliner Messe

In elke wonde 

zit een stukje wijsheid.

Silence

 

 is so accurate.

 
- Mark Rothko -

Weakness is a great thing...strength is nothing. 

When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. 

When he dies, he is hard and insensitive.

 When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. 

 But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

 Hardness and strength are death's companions.

 Pliancy and weakness are expressions

 of the freshness of being...

what has hardened will never win.

 

-  Andrei Tarkovsky - 

 

NITCH

 

You cannot live when you are untouchable.

Life is vulnerability.

- Édouard Boubat -

Life is way too short

 to spend another day at war with yourself.

- Ritu Ghatourey -

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it.

As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

- Shunryu Suzuki -

Let me fall if I must. 

 

The one I will become

 

 will catch me.

 

- Baal Shem Tov -

L'art,

c'est la plus sublime mission de l'homme,

puisque c'est l'exercice de la pensée

qui cherche à comprendre le monde

et à le faire comprendre.

- Auguste Rodin -

 So what can we do if our story is working against us? 

 

 Change the damn story.

 

 Create a song to sing about yourself at the epic hero of your dreams. Sing this song daily, and be proud of it. Go after the dream, fight the forces of distraction and dullness and self-doubt, rise up to be your best self.

 

 You are the writer of your story, the composer of your song, and every moment is a chance to rewrite it, a new draft ready to be crafted into something better.

 

 - Leo Babauta -

There is nothing to practice.

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-

 

When we get angry, we suffer. If you really understand that, you also will be able to understand that when the other person is angry, it means that she is suffering. When someone insults you or behaves violently towards you, you have to be intelligent enough to see that the person suffers from his own violence and anger.

 But we tend to forget. We think that we are the only one that suffers, and the other person is our oppressor. This is enough to make anger arise, and to strengthen our desire to punish. We want to punish the other person because we suffer. Then, we have anger in us; we have violence in us, just as they do. 

When we see that our suffering and anger are no different from their suffering and anger, we will behave more compassionately. So understanding the other is understanding yourself, and understanding yourself is understanding the other person. Everything must begin with you.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Emoties 

zijn antwoorden 

op vragen 

waarvan je niet wist 

dat je ze stelde. 

 

- Vera Helleman - 

 

www.dagelijksegedachte.net 

Of course I’ll hurt you.

Of course you’ll hurt me.

Of course we will hurt each other.

But this is the very condition of existence.

To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter.

To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

  - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon, Ballerina -

Great Horned Owl Family Portrait. by: Daniel Cadieux

SLOWLY

BUT 

SURELY 

Home

 

 is not where you were born.

 

 Home

 

 is where all your attempts to escape cease.

- Naguib Mahfouz -

- Pema Chödron - 

A library 

is a hospital for the mind. 

 

 

 

bol.com

Life is not about becoming attached to things, places, or possessions.

Instead, life is about finding unity with oneself, and all that you are.

- Nicole Addison -

The main thing

 is to be moved,

 to love,

 to hope,

 to tremble,

 to live.

- Auguste Rodin -

Courage is fear

 

 that has said its prayers

 

 and decided

 

 to go forward anyway.

 

- Joyce Meyer - 

 

 

 

Any world is a valid world if it’s alive.

 

 The thing to do is to bring life to it, 

 

and the only way to do that

 

 is to find in your own case

 

 where the life is

 

 and become alive yourself.

 

 

- Joseph Campbell -

Paths

 are made

 by walking.

- Franz Kafka -

Some of us think holding

on makes us strong;

but sometimes it is letting go.

- Hermann Hesse -

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 -

For everything fought against grows.

 Everything denied or disowned becomes more powerful.
Everything hidden will reveal itself in darker ways.
And all that is embraced is liberated.

 

- Blessed Are the Weird: A Manifesto for Creatives’ Jacob Nordby

Anxiety

 is nothing but repeatedly

 re-experiencing

 failure in advance.

 What a waste.

- Seth Godin -

Je viens avec vous Frieda! 

Merci!

Dit is de wonderlijke waarheid:

 tijd kun je alleen maar némen.

 Als je hem neemt,

 héb je hem ook meteen. 

Alles wat je gedaan wilt hebben,

 is de moeite waard om de tijd voor te nemen. 

- Lisette Thooft - Happinez -