Goodnight 

and great love to you.

 We see the same stars.

LAAT VOORAL JEZELF 

NIET IN DE STEEK 

A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself.

By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great… absorb, absorb, absorb.

That is the secret of the tree.

- Deng Ming-Dao -

Hé frisse wind.

Ga je mee een tochtje maken?

- Loesje - 

Drie bevrijdende inzichten

Ten eerste zijn de mensen niet zo in mij geïnteresseerd als ik altijd heb geloofd. We denken wel aan anderen maar zelden langer dan een paar minuten. Waarom zouden we ons zo veel uren van ons leven zorgen maken over hoe we op anderen overkomen? 

Ten tweede: niet iedereen hoeft me aardig te vinden. Ik vind vind immers ook niet iedereen aardig. Waarom zou iedereen mij dan leuk moeten vinden? Je kunt niet bepalen hoe anderen over je denken. 

Ten derde: als we heel eerlijk zijn tegenover onszelf, doen we de dingen die we voor anderen doen eigenlijk voor onszelf. We bidden voor het welzijn van onze familieleden omdat we ze nodig hebben. 

- Haemin Sunim - 

I'm still waiting patiently

for the wisdom that supposedly

comes with old age.

Anyone else? 

When I am silent,

 

 I fall into the place

 

 where everything is music.

 

- Rumi -

Life isn’t something that you possess,

 

 it’s something that you take part in,

 

 and you witness.

 

 

 

Laughter

 is a very underrated tool

 for healing.

- Bronnie Ware -

Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person.

We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self.

 It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with

 as we want to leave the person we have become.

-Esther Perel-

 

 

People will 

hate you,

rate you,

break you

and shake you.  

How strong you stand

is what makes you. 

What’s yours 

 

will find you.

 

 

- Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib -

“People play the victim forever,” she continued. 

“But who are they kidding?

 They are only robbing themselves.

 Life doesn’t owe you anything.

 Neither does anyone else. 

Only you owe yourself.

 So the best way to make the most out of life

is to appreciate the gift of it,

 and choose not to be a victim.” 

- Bronnie Ware -

We must not be attached to a view or a doctrine, even a Buddhist one. .. . The Buddha said that if in a certain moment or place you adopt something as the absolute truth, and you attach to that, then you will no longer have any chance to reach the truth. Even when the truth comes and knocks on your door, and asks you to open the door, you won’t recognize it. So you must not be too attached to dogma – to what you believe, and to what you perceive."

 

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Sufi Story

~ A monk decided to meditate alone, away from his monastery. He took his boat out to the middle of the lake, moored it there, closed his eyes and began meditating. After a few hours of undisturbed silence, he suddenly felt the bump of another boat colliding with his own.
With his eyes still closed, he felt his anger rising, and by the time he opened his eyes, he was ready to scream at the boatman who had so carelessly disturbed his meditation. But when he opened his eyes, he was surprised to find that it was an empty boat that had struck his own. It had probably gotten untethered and floated to the middle of the lake.
At that moment, the monk had a great realization. He understood that the anger was within him; it merely needed the bump of an external object to provoke it out of him. From then on, whenever he came across someone who irritated him or provoked him to anger, he would remind himself, that the other person was merely an empty boat, the anger was within him.

 - Zen Flash  -

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. 

 Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness.

 I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. 

But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

 Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

- Søren Kierkegaard -

To walk in nature

 is to witness

 a thousand miracles.

 - Mary Davis -

Recovery is a process.

 It takes time.

 It takes patience.

 It takes everything you’ve got.

- Unknown -

Detach yourself

 from all that makes your mind restless.

 

 Renounce

 all that disturbs its peace.

 

 If you want peace,

 deserve it.

 

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj -

Sometimes

 

 our thoughts are backed by so much insecurity, 

that they create lies 

we believe.

Usually when someone is angry

 we hear their angry words.

 Instead,

 try hearing the unspoken,

 I am scared,

 I am frustrated,

 I am insecure,

 I am vulnerable,

  I am threatened.

- Charles F. Glassman -

How lucky I am

 

 to have something

 

 that makes saying goodbye

 

 so hard. 

 

- Winnie-the-Pooh - 

 

 

 

Een mens schreeuwt

 

 om zo

 

 de ander niet te hoeven horen

- Miguel de Unanmuno -

 

 

 

Life is a reflection of choices you have made.

If you want a different result,

make a different choice.

Ce n'est pas ce que je vous dis qui vous blesse: 

ce sont vos propres plaies intérieures

qui réagissent lorsqu'elles sont touchées

par mes propos.

- Don Miguel Ruiz - 

“La Conversación”

 by the French sculptor, Etienne.

Close your eyes and spend some time just learning to relax yourself, just to relax your body. Just to feel comfortable with yourself. Spend some time feeling happy that you are meditating now. Feeling good about what you are trying to learn. Just know from moment-to-moment what you are hearing, the thoughts that you are having, the sensations you are experiencing in the body.

- Godwin Samararatne -

Every sensation is merely a tourist.

When you know that, even the sense of ‘letting go’ has already happened.

Thoughts lose their magnetism, their attractiveness because the ‘person’, the needy one, is absent.

- Mooji -

- Steeds Dichter - 

Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface.

And that becomes the moment of truth.

Your have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.

- Pema Chödrön -

It’s like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

I have the simplest tastes.

 

 I am always satisfied with the best.

 

-  Oscar Wilde -

 

NITCH

 

 5 dingen die mentaal sterke ouders niet doen 

Als je alles zou kunnen bekijken met andere ogen, 

 

 

zou je zien dat je steeds ziende blind bent geweest. 

 

- Ga in mijn schoenen staan - de Dijk - 

There’s nothing like an illness to set things in perspective. The ordinary business of life ceases and suddenly we’re back to basics. We say goodbye to people we love, or prepare ourselves to depart. We think of what we might have done in life, things we should have said, or the opposite – what we should have ignored and omitted. Then to have a second chance! How marvelous this fragile valley becomes. 

 

 

 

We're The Superhumans | Rio Paralympics 2016

...

Merci Frieda!

In het midden van chaos en beweging,

 

 behoudt de rust en kalmte in jezelf.

 

-Deepak Chopra - 

 

 

 

Having compassion

 starts and ends with having compassion

 for all those unwanted parts of ourselves,

 all those imperfections

 that we don’t even want to look at. 

 

- Pema Chodron -

That’s how you live: 

you cry, you ache, you hurt, you can’t breathe.

 That’s how you move forward,

 by feeling it all.

- Kayil York -

Fact of the matter is, My Dear,

everything is a non-issue,

until someone decides otherwise.

Which means you can now officially chill.

Blue, The Universe

Stop trying to be happy.

You will be much happier.

- Adyashanti -

John Berger / Ways of Seeing 

 

Merci Nadine!

 

If you can see a thing whole...it seems that it's always beautiful.

 

 Planets, lives... But up close, a world's all dirt and rocks. 

 

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance... 

 

The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. 

 

The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

 

-  Ursula K. Le Guin -

 

NITCH

 

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What you give away 

remains yours forever.

- St. Franciscus - 

Most people treat the present moment

as if it were an obstacle to overcome

so as to achieve a better future.

What an insane way to live.

- E. Tolle -

Ólafur Arnalds - Only The Winds