"Negative" emotions aren't the problem. 

 

They're the symptom. 

 

You don't have to fight them or resist them. 

 

You just have to listen to them. 

 

- Tiny Buddha - 

 

 

UNE DOUBLE NAISSANCE.

  Quand un enfant vient au monde,

 une mère aussi vient au monde.

 Chaque naissance

 est une double naissance.

- Journal d'un amour perdu - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt  -

So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy.

 A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is.

That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is.

It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.

- Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? -

I always thought my days spent in darkness as a child gave me a very special sensitivity. 

Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, 

I'd close my eyes.

 And when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.

- Edith Piaff - 

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Your partner needs your attention

 and your watering of his or her positive seeds. 

Without that attention,

 your relationship will wither.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

Painting: © Anna Silivonchik

 

I will take care of me for you, 

 

if you will take care of you for me.

 

- Jim Rohn - 

 

 

Prejudice of any kind

 implies that you are identified

 with the thinking mind.

 It means 

you don’t see the other human being anymore, 

but only your own concept of that human being. 

To reduce the aliveness of another human being

 to a concept 

is already a form of violence.

 

- Eckhart Tolle -

Het najagen van perfectie 

 

 is een vermomming

 

 van onzekerheid 

 

- Paulo Coelho -

 

 

Jij en je zussen 

I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. 

And I have trained myself to love it. 

Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. 

And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to.

 But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. 

You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.

C. JoyBell C.

Photography Le Mont-Saint-Michel 

www.teallach.com

De rol van de geest 

bij auto-immuunziekten 

Like a sandcastle, all is temporary.

 

 Build it, tend it, enjoy it. 

 

And when the time comes, 

 

let it go.

 

 

To free us from the expectations of others, 

 

to give us back to ourselves...

 

there lies the great, singular power

 

 of self-respect.

 

-  Joan Didion -

 

 

We were searching for ourselves

 in each other.

- Sergei Parajanov -

Just sit, breathe and pay attention to what it’s like to be you.

 

 No judgment. 

 

No rules.

 

 No wrong or right.

 

 Whatever thoughts are here is fine. 

 

Body sensations are ok too. 

 

Fears, worries and sadness are welcome here as well.

 

 Sit and breathe amidst it all. 

 

What’s it like to be you?

 

- Jason Garner - 

Heb je een slecht humeur?

Ga wandelen.

Heb je nog steeds een slecht humeur?

Ga weer wandelen. 

- Hippocrates - 

If you are miserable you are miserable; that is the reality, that is what is happening, so confront that. 

 

Look it square in the eye without flinching. 

 

When you are having a bad time, examine that experience, observe it mindfully, study the phenomenon and learn its mechanics. 

 

The way out of a trap is to study the trap itself, learn how it is built.

 

 You do this by taking the thing apart piece by piece. 

 

The trap can’t trap you if it has been taken to pieces.

 

 The result is freedom.

 

- Henepola Gunaratana -

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends…
We thank thee.

- Prayer of Thanks by Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Every time rage, sadness, or hurt appeared, it was clear.

She needed only to be internally spacious and quiet to revert into her original form.... serenity.

Serenity only became Rage, Sadness, or Hurt whenever she let Ego in.

As long as you can laugh at yourself 

 

you will never cease to be amused.

 

The problem is...

you think you have time 

I wonder what life would be like 

in any possible way 

if I didn't overthink.

L'ESPRIT D'ENFANCE.

  L'esprit d'enfance équilibre l'âge mûr. 

Le bon adulte n'a pas tué l'enfant en lui

 il respecte cet enfant

 en l'enrichissant.

- Plus tard, je serai un enfant - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt -

I have no control

 over what people think of me

 but I have one-hundred percent control 

of what I think of myself.

- Beth Ditto -

Make friends with this moment. 

 

 Say yes to it. 

 

Allow it. 

 

Be with it.

Everything changes. 

 

There is nothing to stick to. 

 

 

- Fernando Pessoa -

What if...

everything you are going through

is preparing you 

for what you asked for?

When the choice is 

 

to be right or to be kind, 

 

always make the choice

 

 that brings peace.

 

- Wayne Dyer -

 

 

Most people want to live long

 

 but don't want to age.

 

 I see a problem here. 

 

- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche -

I think of myself as somebody not at home, I suppose. 

 

Not at home anywhere, not at home ever...not comfortable in themselves in their supposed lives, in their nation, in their bodies, in everything. 

 

There are lots of people who feel very certain about themselves, where they're born, what it means.

 

 I never felt that way... 

 

I don't think of that as a negative feeling. 

 

To me, it's creative. 

 

It's the people who feel that they belong very strongly who put the fear of God into me, to be honest.

 

-  Zadie Smith -

 

NITCH

 

 

Jaecheol Park

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.

 

 We grow sometimes in one dimension and not another…unevenly. 

 

We grow partially. 

 

We are relative. 

 

We mature in one realm, childish in another. 

 

The past, present and future mingle and pull us backward, forward or fix us in the present. 

 

We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

 - Anais Nin -

A Sufi mystic was entering a village and he came across a small boy who was carrying a lit candle.The boy was going to the mosque. The night was coming and the boy was going to the mosque to put the candle there – as an act of worship.

The mystic saw the boy, the innocent boy, his face lit by the light of the candle. The mystic asked the boy, ’Have you yourself lighted the candle?’ And the boy said, ’Yes, sir.’

The mystic jokingly asked, ’Then you must have seen from where the flame comes. Can you tell me from where the flame comes?’

The boy laughed and blew out the candle and said, ’Now you have seen it going. Can you tell me where it has gone?’

Be a watcher. 

Pleasure comes – watch. 

 

Pain comes – watch. 

 

Neither be disturbed by pleasure nor be disturbed by pain. 

 

Let your calm remain unperturbed. 

 

Let your silence, your tranquillity, remain undisturbed.

 

 Pain will come and go and pleasure will come and go.

 

 Success will come and go and failure will come and go. 

 

And soon you will come to understand the point that it is only you who remains.

 

- Osho -

Leave everything undefined, including yourself.

 

 Befriend uncertainty.

 

 Fall in love with mystery.

 

 Kneel at the altar of not knowing.

 

 Give your questions time to breathe. 

 

The answers will find you.

 

- Jeff Foster -

Some situations are stressful, it is their nature. 

 

That’s okay. 

 

We don’t have to try to make stress go away. 

 

That only creates more stress.

 

 Instead we simply recognize “this is stressful” and be with that - not arguing with reality.

 

 It’s okay. 

 

You’re okay.

 

 Breathe and carry on.

 

- Jason Garner - 

 

 

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important... 

You can describe all the externals of a performance...everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. 

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

-  Edward Gorey -

NITCH

 

LE BONHEUR D'EXISTER.

  Je ressentais une émotion longue, bouleversante, violente, entre la stupeur et l’émerveillement : j'éprouvais le bonheur d'exister.

 La joie simple de me trouver au milieu d'un monde si beau.

 N'être pas grand chose et beaucoup à la fois: une fenêtre ouverte sur l'univers qui me dépasse, le cadre dans lequel l'espace devient un tableau, une goutte dans un océan, une goutte lucide qui se rend compte qu'elle existe et que, par elle, l'océan existe. 

Minuscule et grande.

 Intense et misérable.

- Lorsque j'étais une oeuvre d'art - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt -

 L’attente est une fleur simple, elle pousse au bord du temps, c’est une fleur pauvre qui guérit tous les maux.

Le temps d’attendre est un temps de délivrance, cette délivrance opère en nous à notre insu.
Elle ne nous demande rien que de la laisser faire, le temps qu’il faut, les nuits qu’elle doit.

Sans doute l’avez-vous remarqué : notre attente d’un amour, d’un printemps, d’un repos, est toujours comblée par surprise. 

Comme si ce que nous espérions était toujours inespéré, comme si la vraie formule d’attendre était celle-ci : Ne rien prévoir, sinon l’imprévisible. 

Ne rien attendre, sinon l’inattendu. 

Ce savoir là me vient de loin. 

Ce savoir qui n'est pas un savoir, mais une confiance, un murmure, une chanson....

- Christian Bobin, Éloge du rien -

My whole life I’ve been telling myself, ‘don’t be afraid’.

 And it is only now that I’m realizing how stupid that is. 

Don’t be afraid. 

Like saying, ‘don’t move out of the way when someone tries to punch you’ or ‘don’t flinch at the heat of fire’ or ‘don’t blink’. 

Don’t be human.

 I’m afraid and you’re afraid and we’re all always going to be afraid, because that’s the point. 

What I should be telling myself is ‘be afraid, but do it anyway’. 

Live anyway.

- Unknown -

Sometimes, 

 

the best way to solve a problem

 

 is to just stop caring.

-Jon Mead-

 

 

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'... 

He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

 This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. 

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature... 

Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

-  Albert Einstein -

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