zaterdag 10 augustus 2019

Duke's Nose Point, India

I can't think in terms of boundaries.

Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies.

I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul.

Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.

- Kurt Vonnegut -

NITCH

Het is moeilijk

om het geluk dat je niet hebt,

niet te overschatten.

- Stendhal -

vrijdag 9 augustus 2019

[…] een gevoel van eigenwaarde

is niet gegeven;

het is aangeleerd.

-Nathaniel Branden-

Ik hou van u / Je t'aime tu sais - Monza & Marie Daulne

SOUVENIRS.

Je n’ai pas le souvenir qu’on nous ait appris, enfants, à parler ;

en revanche, je me rappelle très bien qu’on nous apprit à nous taire.

(Les Perroquets de la place d'Arezzo - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt)

Er zijn ouders die niet weten hoe hun kinderen anders aan te pakken dan door tegen hen te schreeuwen. Het verheffen van je stem zonder een gerechtvaardigde reden veroorzaakt een toestand van voortdurende spanning en agitatie bij kinderen. Ze weten niet wat ze kunnen verwachten en ze weten niet wanneer ze iets goeds of iets slechts doen. Continu schreeuwen schrikt kinderen af en is schadelijk voor ze, want er is geen gesprek, alleen bevelen en verwijten.

Er moet zorgvuldig worden omgegaan met deze fundamentele aspecten. Niet luisteren, niet praten, het niet tonen van openheid of begrip of het verkiezen van bestraffing boven gesprek zijn manieren om kinderen beetje bij beetje van ons af te duwen. Ze zullen ons zien als vijanden waar ze zich tegen moeten verdedigen en we zullen onze emotionele band met hen verbreken.

Ouderschap is een avontuur dat een leven lang duurt, waarin niemand een echte expert is. Het is echter makkelijker als je kunt vertrouwen op pilaren van begrip, genegenheid en een gezonde band die volwassenheid en veiligheid bevordert in de persoon die op zijn beurt een deel van jou is.

- www.verkenjegeest.com -

Children run after the priest of the local Anglican church,

East End, UK, the 1940s

- by Bert Hardy (1913 - 1995), UK

Have you ever started a path?

No one seems willing to do this.

We don't mind using existing paths,

but we rarely start new ones.

Do it today.

Start a path.

Even if it doesn't lead anywhere.

- George Carlin -

Gaan we doen hé Frieda :)

LACHEN

IS INNERLIJK JOGGEN

- Mary Burmeister -

We want to be free.

Deep down we know this is true.

When I was 8-years-old, on an especially bitter windy winter day, my brothers and I dressed in jackets and scarves and gloves and went out to play in the snow.

I was skinny as a rail and shivering with cold.

My twin brother, Irv, stronger, wilder, and more robust, looked at me, contracted and fearful, and laughed.

Then he began to remove layers of clothing, first the gloves, his coat, then a sweater, his shirt, undershirt, all the while laughing.

He danced and paraded around half-naked in the snow, the icy wind whipping around us.

We were all wide-eyed, laughing hysterically.

In that moment, my brother taught me about choosing freedom, manifesting a spirit that to this day I still remember.

Whether we’re in a wildly blowing snowstorm or feeling the cold wind of loss, blame, or of our collective insecurity, we want to be free.

We want to be released from fear and worry, not confined by judgments.

We want to allow ourselves to trust, love, express ourselves, and be happy.

- Jack Kornfield -

You're not too sensitive.

You're not overreacting.

If it hurts you, it hurts you.

- Tiny Buddha -

All the wonders of life are available in the present moment

- the sunshine, the fresh air, the trees,

the multitude of colors and forms all around us.

The essential thing is to be aware.

If we open our eyes, we will see.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

donderdag 8 augustus 2019

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.

We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities,

we are eaten up by nothing.

- Charles Bukowski -

NITCH

Let your breath

soften the places

that hurt.

I consider every single day

to be the single most important day

in the history of forever, My Dear.

So far.

You, too?!

- The Universe -

I try to contain my crazy

but the lid keeps popping off.

Unknown

Nothing

Strengthens Authority So Much

As Silence.

- Leonardo da Vinci -

Can you?

Have you ever tried?

Try to remain with a feeling, and see what happens.

You will find it amazingly difficult.

Your mind will not leave the feeling alone; it comes rushing in with its remembrances, its associations, its do’s and don’ts, its everlasting chatter.

Pick up a piece of shell.

Can you look at it, wonder at its delicate beauty, without saying how pretty it is, or what animal made it?

Can you look without the movement of the mind?

Can you live with the feeling behind the word, without the feeling that the word builds up?

If you can, then you will discover an extraordinary thing, a movement beyond the measure of time, a spring that knows no summer.

- Jiddu krishnamurti-

We can stop struggling with what occurs

and see its true face

without calling it the enemy.

- Pema Chödron -

One of the most healing things you can do

is recognize where in your life

you are your own poison.

- Steve Maraboli -

All negativity

is caused by an accumulation of psychological time

and denial of the present.

- Eckhart Tolle -

Meeting of the Day

Eerlijkheid

is de beste manier

om te voorkomen

dat een foutje

een fiasco wordt.

- James Altucher -

woensdag 7 augustus 2019

Patrick (7):

Ik ben wel geduldig,
maar niet zo lang.

- Omdenken door kinderen -

We boil

at different degrees.

- Clint Eastwood-

My goal

is to build a life

I don't need a vacation from.

- Rob Hill Sr. -

You only have so much emotional energy each day.

Don’t fight battles that don’t matter.

- Joel Osteen -

Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves.

Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that’s not the point.

It’s developing a friendly attitude to ourselves,

accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

Chogyam Trungpa

Je bouwt je depressie grotendeels zelf op.

Het is niet aan je gegeven.

Daardoor kun je het ook afbreken.

-Albert Ellis-

It can be surprising when you realise that everything your mind is trying to attain, the peace, the stillness, the presence, everything the mind, the meditator is trying to get to is actually already here, naturally occurring.

Needing no maintenance at all.

- Adyashanti -

When you sit in quiet with yourself you are giving your mind and body a rest.
.
There is no where to go, nothing to do, just be.

You're actually cultivating a loving, strong friendship with yourself.

You are becoming aware of who you are, what you want for your life, and what thoughts and obstacles are keeping you from the life of your dreams.