Tien redenen om elke dag te knuffelen.

 

 

You never realize 

how weird you are 

until you have a kid 

who acts just like you. 

No matter how long your journey appears to be,

there is never more than this:

one step,

one breath,

one moment:

Now.

- Eckhart Tolle -

Letting go gives us freedom, 

and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

 If, in our heart, 

we still cling to anything
— anger, anxiety, or possessions —

we cannot be free.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

When you love someone, 

when you care for someone, 

 you have to do it through the good and the bad.

 Not just when you’re happy and it’s easy.

- Lauren Olivier -

Pain may arise;

 

 don’t worsen it with resistance.

 

 Pleasure may arise;

 

 don’t diminish it by grasping.

 

 Allow all to be as it is.

 - Wu Hsin -

If only it were so simple. If only there were evil people somewhere else, committing evil deeds. And it were just necessary to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the lines dividing good and evil cut through every human being. And who among us is willing to destroy a piece of the own heart.

- Alexander Solgenitzen -

One of my favourite Tibetan sayings is

“Even if you’re going to die tomorrow,

you can learn something tonight".

- Sakyong Mipham -

Relationships fail 

when people take their own insecurities

 and project them

 as their partner’s flaws.

- Steve Maraboli -

If I’ve learned one lesson from all that’s happened to me, 

it’s that there’s no such thing

 as the biggest mistake of your existence.

 There’s no such thing as ruining your life. 

Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

- Sophie Kinsella -

ALS DE DAG NIET JE VRIEND WAS 

IS HIJ JE LERAAR GEWEEST 

Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. 

 

They have grown thick skins around themselves

 

 just to avoid being hurt by anybody. 

 

But it is at great cost.

 

 Nobody can hurt them, 

 

but nobody can make them happy either.

 

- Osho -

WAAR ZIJN AL DIE MOMENTEN 

PLOTS NAARTOE?

 

 

 

Detachment

is not that you should own nothing,

 but that nothing should own you. 

- Ali ibn abi Talib -

Enthusiasm

 

 is the electricity of life.

 

- Gordon Parks -

MOEDIG ZIJWAARTS 

- Middas Dekkers in Winteruur - 

Depression

 

 is your avatar telling you

 

  it's tired of being the character

 

 you're trying to play. 

 

- Jim Carrey -

ZOALS VERWACHT 

LOOPT ALLES ANDERS 

- Omdenken.nl - 

The seeds from our parents and ancestors…by Thich Nhat Hanh

When we’re still young, many of us are determined to be different from our parents. We say we’ll never make our children suffer. But when we grow up we tend to behave just like our parents, and we make others suffer because, like our ancestors, we don’t know how to handle the energies we’ve inherited. We’ve received many positive and negative seeds from our parents and ancestors. They transmitted their habit to us because they didn’t know how to transform it.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Neurologists claim

 

 that every time you resist acting on your anger,

 

 you’re actually rewiring your brain

 

 to be calmer and more loving.

 

- Unknown -

 

 

 

EMBRACE SIMPLICITY 

If you can’t beat fear, 

 

just do it scared.

- Glennon Melton -

See that big yellow thing in the sky? 

 

The world revolves around that.

 

 Not you.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/MindfulnessIreland/?tn-str=k*F

There will always be someone 

who can’t see your worth.

 Don’t let it be you. 

- Unknown -

Alleen wie het aandurft om te falen, 

krijgt de kans om te slagen. 

- John F. Kennedy - 

Dalai Lama

Compassie is het ware teken van innerlijke kracht.

- Centrum voor Mindfulness - 

When we survey our lives...we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings... 

 

We eat food that others have grown, wear clothes that others have made, live in houses that others have built. 

 

The greater part of our knowledge and beliefs has been communicated to us by other people through...language which others have created. 

 

Without language our mental capacities would be poor indeed... 

 

The individual, if left alone from birth would remain primitive and beast-like in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly conceive.

 

 The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has, not so much in virtue of his individuality, but rather as a member of a great human society.

 

-  Albert Einstein -

 

 

Alleen domme mensen 

 

hebben op alles een antwoord.

 

- Omdenken.nl - 

 

 

 

Telkens wanneer je in het contact met anderen oneerlijk bent, wanneer je probeert te verbergen hoe je je werkelijk voelt, wanneer je een beeld van jezelf probeert op te houden, wanneer je een rol speelt in plaats van eerlijk te zijn over wat er met je gebeurt, is de kans groot dat je denkt iets van hen nodig te hebben. Je wilt dat ze jou op een bepaalde manier zien. Je probeert het beeld dat ze van je hebben te manipuleren. En wat anders zou hiervoor de reden kunnen zijn dan angst? (vrij naar) Jeff Foster

- www.inzicht-nu.nl -

 

So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). 

But that’s not what I actually needed. 

What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered.

- John Green -

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

- Herman Hesse -

Fall in love with the mess of your life
the shattered dreams,
the broken promises,
the unexpected sorrows and joys,
all those hoped for tomorrows that never arrived,
those beautiful plans that never came to fruition.
Sanctify the mess of your life,
this wild, uncontrollable, unplanned,
unexpected moment of existence.
Dignify it with your loving attention,
your gratitude…

Become a Mess-iah…

- Jeff Foster -

Your relationship should be a safe haven, 

not a battlefield. 

The world is hard enough already. 

Cobh

Woorden. 

 Zo krachtig.

  Ze kunnen een hart verpletteren of genezen. 

Ze kunnen een ziel beschamen of bevrijden. 

Ze kunnen dromen vernietigen of activeren. 

 Ze kunnen een verbinding blokkeren of uitnodigen. 

 Ze kunnen verdedigingen creëren of ze versmelten.  

We moeten woorden verstandig gebruiken.

 

-Jeff Brown-

WAT ZIT JE NU ECHT DWARS?

There's a real wisdom 

to not saying a thing.

-  Willem Dafoe -

NITCH

Veel onvermogen tot luisteren manifesteert zich wanneer men anderen vertelt dat ze niet moeten voelen wat ze voelen. 

Het is frustrerend als mensen ons zeggen dat we ons geen zorgen moeten maken, niet schuldig moeten voelen of niet bang moeten zijn. 

De bedoeling mag nog zo goed zijn, maar het effect is dat ons de erkenning van onze gevoelens door de neus geboord wordt. 

De meeste pogingen om mensen hun moeilijkheden uit het hoofd te praten worden terecht ondervonden als afwijzing -

'Maak mij niet overstuur met jouw overstuur zijn.' 

- Michael P. Nichols - 

Om goed te luisteren

 

 is het noodzakelijk om hetgeen in je eigen hoofd speelt

 

 lang genoeg opzij te zetten 

 

om te horen wat er in het hoofd van de ander speelt. 

Gespeelde aandacht werkt niet. 

- Michael P. Nichols - 

Je verandert relaties niet door andere mensen te veranderen.

Je verandert relatiepatronen door je eigen houding

 

 ten opzichte van die patronen te veranderen.

- Michael P. Nichols - 

Au bout, le spectacle de l’infini…

How do you move on?

You move on when your heart finally understands

that there is no turning back.

- J.R.R. Tolkien -

You sometimes think you want to disappear, 

but all you really want is to be found.

I must also have a dark side

 

 if I am to be whole.

 

- Carl Jung -

Je mag ze hebben 

AL MIJN OORDELEN 

ik wil er vanaf zijn. 

Boy, I hurried... 

 

I hurried for a long time.

 

 I'm sorry I did.

 

 All the time you're hurrying, you're not really as aware as you should be. 

 

You're trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. 

 

You follow me?

 

-  Bob Dylan -

 

NITCH

 

We will see beauty in the outer world

when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. 

And this is the best thing we can do

for ourselves and for the universe.

- Anita Moorjani -

Tonight go to sleep 

as though your whole past

  has been dropped. 

Die to the past.

 And in the morning

wake up as a new man 

 in a new morning.

- Osho -

However vast the darkness, 

 

we must supply our own light.

 

- Stanley Kubrick - 

 

 

 

No need to climb mountains or sit in caves.

 There is no call to do any of that. 

Just be. 

And don’t go around trying to ‘be yourself’, you don’t even know what that might be, other than something you made up.

  You are neither the “outer” world of perceivables, nor the “inner” world of thinkables. 

Just be. 

- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

People become attached to their burdens

sometimes more

than the burdens are attached to them.

- George Bernard Shaw-

 

 

I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say ‘I see you.’

I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye.

I don’t push it away, I own it.

And because I own it, I let it go.

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

Do you want to feel young again?

Learn something new.

Being a student

makes your mind fresh and curious

like a kid again. 

- Haemin Sunim -