Precariously perched on a rock pillar

 in the Westman Islands of Iceland,

 the Prídrangaviti Lighthouse

 is arguably the most isolated lighthouse in the world.

 

 

With fear, you cannot see.

With hatred you cannot hear.

With anger you cannot be compassionate.

 

- Michael Kewley - 

 

 

 

Weinig observatie en veel redeneren

 leidt tot fouten;

vele observaties en weinig redeneren

 tot de waarheid.

  -Alexis Carrel-

Before I go

I’m supposed to get a last wish:

Generous reader

burn this book

It’s not at all what I wanted to say

Though it was written in blood

It’s not what I wanted to say.

No lot could be sadder than mine

I was defeated by my own shadow:

My words took vengeance on me.

Forgive me, reader, good reader

If I cannot leave you

With a warm embrace, I leave you

With a forced and sad smile.

Maybe that’s all I am

But listen to my last word:

I take back everything I’ve said.

With the greatest bitterness in the world

I take back everything I’ve said.


— translated by Miller Williams

Nicanor Parra

 

 

 

Drama usually comes from my reaction

 

 to other people’s actions. 

 

I stop to think: 

 

Does this really matter in the long run, 

 

or am I just trying to be right? 

 

- Anita Grimm-Hohl -

I zoom out in my mind to a point far enough away and above 

 

so that I can see things in my life for what they are. 

 

By doing this,

 

 I can see from a distance

 

 how small and unimportant the situation is

 

 in the big scope of the universe. 

 

 

- Larry Stilts -

I minimize drama within myself.

 

 When I’m focused and calm,

 

 so is the world around me. 

 

- Cynthia Ruprecht Hunt -

Whoever debases others

is debasing himself.

- James Baldwin -

Whether we like it or not,
We have only three choices:
Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

And not even three
Because as the philosopher says
Yesterday is yesterday
It belongs to us only in memory:
From the rose already plucked
No more petals can be drawn.

The cards to play
Are only two:
The present and the future.

And there aren't even two
Because it's a known fact
The present doesn't exist
Except as it edges past
And is consumed...,
like youth.

In the end
We are only left with tomorrow.
I raise my glass
To the day that never arrives.

But that is all
we have at our disposal.

Nicanor Parra

 

 

Noch te pienter noch volledig dom,

 ik was wat ik was: een mengsel.

 Van azijn en olijfolie. 

-Nicanor Parra-

by john & tina reid

At present, our body is undoubtedly the center of our whole universe. We associate it, without thinking, with our self and our ego, and this thoughtless and false association continually reinforces our illusion of their inseparable, concrete existence. Because our body seems so convincingly to exist, our “I” seems to exist, and “you” seem to exist, and the entire illusory, dualistic world we never stop projecting around us looks ultimately solid and real.

When we die, this whole compound construction falls dramatically to pieces.

- Sogyal Rinpoche -  

 Er zijn twee stukken brood.

 Jij eet er twee.

 Ik eet er geen.

 Gemiddeld verbruik: één brood per persoon.

 - Nicanor Parra -

( tot zover het nut van statistieken )

Volledig eerlijk zijn tegen jezelf

 is een goede oefening.

 -Sigmund Freud-

3 redenen om perfectionisme los te laten 

One is never afraid of the unknown;

 

 one is afraid 

 

of the known coming to an end. 

 

- Jiddu Krishnamurti -

Find joy in the life you are living

 

 

 

all tied up 

If your sense of self worth 

 

relies on external rewards or possessions,

 

 it can be taken away from you at any time.

 

 

 

Find the time to read,

 to smell the flowers, 

to paint your dreams,

 to have coffee with a friend, 

to learn a new craft, 

to write a letter,

 to bake a surprise cake,

 to go somewhere special,

 to really be with the person you love, 

or even do nothing for a while…⠀

- Tiny Buddha - 

 ⠀

The place in which I'll fit

 will not exist

 until I make it.

-  James Baldwin -

NITCH

 

Depression is such a cruel punishment. 

 There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern - just the slow erosion of self as insidious as cancer. and like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience; a room in hell with only your name on the door.

- Martha Manning -

Pain and suffering 

are a kind of currency 

passed from hand to hand

 until they reach someone who receives them

 but does not pass them on.

-  Simone Weil -

Tuck yourself into bed,

 

 reflect back on your day 

 

and learn the teachings it has for you, 

 

now leave it all here, 

 

in this day, 

 

and fall asleep

 

 with a mind that is clear and content.
•
Tomorrow is a new day full of possibilities.

 

 

 

We must not allow 

 

other people's limited perceptions

 

 to define us. 

 

- Virginia Satir -

Keuzestress 

Always find time to play

 

 

 

Doorstrepen wat niet van toepassing is

Wat je stem zo vlak maakt

zo ijl en zo blikkerig

dat is de angst

om iets verkeerds te zeggen

of altijd hetzelfde

of te zeggen wat iedereen zegt

of iets onbelangrijks

of kwetsbaars

of iets dat verkeerd begrepen zou kunnen worden

of de verkeerde mensen zou behagen

of iets reactionairs

of iets kitscherigs

of iets doms

iets dat uit de tijd is

iets ouds

Ben je het dan niet beu

om van louter angst

om van louter angst voor de angst

iets verkeerds te zeggen

altijd het verkeerde te zeggen?

- Hans Magnus Enzensberger -

Meestal is het probleem niet 

 

dat we niet weten wat we willen.

 

 Het probleem is juist

 

 dat we dat meestal heel goed weten.

 

- Omdenken.nl - 

 

 

The fact of the matter is that only your own understanding is any good to you.

Because it’s you that you’re going to live with and it’s you that you’re going to die with.

As the song says, the last dance, you dance alone.

- Terence McKenna -

Your life

 isn’t yours

 if you constantly care

 about what others think.

- Unknown -

Don't be afraid to move on and start a new chapter. 

 

Or, be afraid but do it anyway,

 

 knowing it's better to feel temporarily scared 

 

than to feel indefinitely stuck and unfulfilled.

 

 

 

Anybody can play. 

The note is only 20 percent. 

The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it

 is 80 percent.

-  Miles Davis -

NITCH

 

Why is it

 that when the story ends 

we begin to feel all of it? 

- Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers -

 

No amount of anxiety 

makes any difference 

to anything that is going to happen.

- Alan Watts - 

... because others 

are nothing but a mirror.

Ouders leren kinderen spreken.

Kinderen leren ouders zwijgen. 

- auteur onbekend - 

Doubt is good.

It means you are searching for truth.

Suspicion is sickness - 

it means you already made a negative conclusion. 

- The MindsJournal/ Sdadhguru - 

It's not that people can't love you if you don't love yourself.

 It's that you won't feel it 

because it will always seem like you don't deserve it.⠀

 - Tiny Buddha -

Een slim iemand weet hoe een leugen te brengen;  een wijs iemand weet hoe haar te vermijden.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Talking to someone with an open mind 

 

 is seriously one of my favorite things 

 

because there's never an end

 

 to what you can talk about and learn.⠀

 

 

 

Wat patiënten vertellen is belangrijk voor de wereld.

- Dirk De Wachter - 

David Byrne-Don't Fence Me In

Omdenkexperiment

Ga vandaag eens na: 

 

welke van mijn problemen 

 

veroorzaak ik zelf?

 

- Omdenken.nl - 

 

 

Our egos are easily hurt, 

 

and they react quickly and impulsively

 

 in anger, fear, defensiveness, exaggeration, frustration, 

 

 self-preservation, insecurity, and self-pity. 

 

But all that drama can be avoided, 

 

or at least minimized, 

 

with a little self-awareness. 

 

- Tiny Buddha - 

 

 

I am more greatly moved

 

 by people who struggle to express themselves.

 

 I prefer...

 

incoherence in the face of great feeling 

 

 to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

 

- Daniel Day-Lewis -

 

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.

 

 

 

You do not need

 

 to always conceptualize, interpret, or label 

 

everything that comes into your awareness. 

 

 - Eckhart Tolle -

 

 

 

Many of us wait till there's some kind of tragedy to assess our lives & how we're spending time. 

Till then, we push ourselves to do & be more, living busy, stressed & unfulfilled. 

Don't wait for life to shake you alive. 

Choose to focus on what matters now.

- Tiny Buddha -

Let them talk...

don't forget that opinions are easy.

 They are not in your shoes.

 Be an artist, 

don't listen, 

only answer to yourself.

-  Rinus Van de Velde -

NITCH

Sometimes I like to be alone

 

 and do absolutely nothing.

 

 I'm not antisocial.

 

 I'm not anti-social.

 

 I'm just pro-me.

 

- Karen Salmansohn -

I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to people...where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel...

 

It strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

 

 

- Joni Mitchell -

NITCH 

 

To love someone 

is to show to them their beauty,

 their worth 

and their importance.

- Jean Vanier -

Peace begins

 

 when expectations end. 

 

- Sri Chinmoy -