In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you.
- Deepak Chopra -
vrijdag 12 oktober 2018
Laat niemand me de rimpels van het voorhoofd wegnemen,
die daar gekomen zijn door de verwondering over de schoonheid van het
leven.
Of die rond mijn mond, die laten zien hoeveel ik heb gelachen en
hoeveel ik heb gekust.
Ook niet de wallen onder mijn ogen, daarin zit de
herinnering aan hoeveel ik heb gehuild.
Ze zijn van mij en ze zijn
mooi.
- Meryl Streep -
There is no ideal in observation.
When you have an ideal,
you cease to observe,
you are then merely
approximating the
present to the idea,
and therefore there
is duality, conflict,
and all the rest of it.
The mind has to be in the
state when it can see, observe.
The experience of the observation
is really an astonishing state.
In that there is no duality.
The mind is simply—aware.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
When you have an ideal,
you cease to observe,
you are then merely
approximating the
present to the idea,
and therefore there
is duality, conflict,
and all the rest of it.
The mind has to be in the
state when it can see, observe.
The experience of the observation
is really an astonishing state.
In that there is no duality.
The mind is simply—aware.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to
other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel
brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look
clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless
about looking into someone else’s eye.
The feelings that hurt most,
the emotions that sting
most,
are those that are absurd;
longing for impossible things,
precisely because they are impossible;
nostalgia for what never was;
the
desire for what could have been;
regret over not being someone else;
dissatisfaction with the world’s existence.
All these half-tones of the
soul’s consciousness
create in us a painful landscape,
an eternal sunset
of what we are.
Here’s my “what I know for sure” life advice:
We’re not meant to have it all together then walk our path effortlessly. Life is unpredictable, stressful, and hard. But even though it’s difficult we can begin to know what we want, make a plan, and begin by taking teeny tiny steps to get there.
Fall, get back up, dust yourself off and walk again. This is on repeat your whole life my loves.
You do your best, love and trust yourself completely, do no harm to others, lend a helping hand along the way, and above all don’t take yourself too seriously, laugh often and have infinite patience.
Barb Schmidt
LEREN LOSLATEN
Op een dag leer je het subtiele verschil kennen tussen een hand vasthouden en een ziel ketenen.
Dan leer je dat liefde niet betekent: leunen,
en dat gezelschap niet betekent: veiligheid.
Je ontdekt dat een kus geen contract is en een cadeau geen belofte.
Je begint je nederlagen te accepteren met je hoofd omhoog en je ogen open.
Je leert vertrouwen op vandaag omdat morgen te onzeker is voor plannen.
Na een poos leer je dat zelfs zonneschijn je verbrandt als je er te veel van krijgt.
Dan wordt het tijd je eigen tijd te beplanten en dan zorg je voor je eigen ziel
en wacht je niet langer op een wonder van buitenaf.
En dan weet je echt, dat je het echt kunt volhouden en dat je echt sterk bent en dat je echt waarde hebt.
En je leert en leert.
Bij ieder afscheid leer je.
- Voltaire (1694-1778 filosoof) -
Never forget how far you’ve come.
Everything you have gotten through.
All the times you have pushed on even when you felt you couldn’t.
All
the mornings you got out of bed no matter how hard it was.
All the times
you wanted to give up but you got through another day.
Never forget how
much strength you have learned and developed along the way.
donderdag 11 oktober 2018
Out of perfection nothing can be made.
Every process involves
breaking something up.
The earth must be broken to bring forth life.
If
the seed does not die there is no plant.
Bread results from the death of
wheat.
Life lives on lives.
Our own life lives on the act of other
people.
If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.
- Joseph Campbell -
I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts
was.
The best thing I could come up with was what I call the 'canary in
the coal mine theory'...
This theory says that artists are useful to
society because they are so sensitive.
They are super-sensitive.
They
keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust
types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.
- Kurt Vonnegut -
NITCH
People try to get away from it all —
to the country, to
the beach, to the mountains.
You always wish that you could too.
Which
is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like.
By going within.
Nowhere you can go is more peaceful
— more free of interruptions —
than
your own soul.
Especially if you have other things to rely on.
An
instant’s recollection and there it is: complete tranquility.
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