Getting rid of everything that doesn't matter

 

 allows you to remember who you are.

 

 Simplicity doesn't change who you are,

 

 it brings you back to who you are.

 

- Courtney Carver -

At Eternity's Gate

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Do you know why we have the sunflowers? 

It’s not because Vincent van
Gogh suffered. 

It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved
him. 

Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. 

And that is the focus of the story we need – connection.

- Hannah Gadsby -

Intimiteit 

is zowel de ziekte 

als het medicijn 

- Esther Perel - 

MOGEN herbeginnen 

is een luxe 

What's on your mind 

when you're lost in time ? 

I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried...

tried to be part of his times, 

tried to help people communicate with one another,

 tried to find some decency in his own life, 

tried to extend himself as a human being.

 Someone who isn't complacent, 

who doesn't cop out.

-  Paul Newman -

NITCH

 

Deepak Chopra

i want my soul to feel 

 

like a calm blue sea 

 

 

Bedankt Lut!

I interviewed a woman who is terminally ill. 

 

‘So,’ I tried to delicately ask, 

 

‘What is it like to wake up every morning and know that you are dying?’ 

 

‘Well,’ she responded,

 

 ‘What is it like to wake up every morning

 

 and pretend that you are not?’

 

- Unknown -

Regardless if the consequences are in one day, 

one year, or one decade from now;

 if an action is bringing negativity your way, 

then you must try your very best to avoid continuing it.

 - Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin -

I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. 

 

Funny thing about that, though. 

 

You tweak yourself, looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy.

 

 You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. 

 

In some sense, the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for...a return to the easygoing guy I was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

- Bill Withers -

NITCH

 

Diep van binnen, was dat niet geluk? 

Een pauze waarin, 

zonder aan het verleden of de toekomst te denken,

je uit jezelf kunt ontsnappen?

- Douglas Kennedy -

Etty Hillesum,

- An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 & Letters from Westerbork -

MINUTE BY MINUTE 

&

DAY BY DAY 

You cannot change your FUTURE,

 

 you can change your HABITS. 

 

And surely 

 

your HABITS 

 

will change your FUTURE

 

- Dr. Abdul Kalam -

You can't heals your wounds 

if you're too busy 

hiding them 

- Rachel Wolchin -

At the end of the day 

we can endure much more 

than we think 

Rommel

 is niets meer dan een woord in je hoofd, 

dat spullen beschrijft 

die op een onverwachte plek liggen.

Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts is Mother Nature | Conservation Inter...

The sky is not the limit.

Your mind is.

 

Remember that happiness comes from within,

 

 it’s a state of mind that we can control

 

 regardless of our circumstances or environment. 

 

We are all in this together 

 

and will become a stronger and more united planet! 

 

 

Mountains do not rise 

without earthquakes.

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. 

 

That is eternal. 

 

This witnessing is eternal.

 

- Osho -

 There is a sense of freedom 

 

when we accept 

 

we’re not in control.

 

-  Pema Chodron -

 

 

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. 

The landmine is me.

After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

- Ray Bradbury -

Paul Verhaeghe: "Een gigantisch experiment met onzekere afloop"| #corona...

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there 

that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, 

as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, 

or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.”

- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse -

Don't worry if you feel

you can only do one tiny good thing

in one small corner of the cosmos.

Just be a Buddha body in that one place.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

RISE 

BY LIFTING 

OTHERS 

 - Charles Juliet -

A quiet mind

 

 cureth all.

 

- Robert Burton -

Together we have stepped into history and are now living inside an event unprecedented in our lifetime. Every day the news provides us with dizzying information that a few weeks before would have been unthinkable. What deranged and divided us a month ago seems, at best, an embarrassment from an idle and privileged time. We have become eyewitnesses to a catastrophe that we are seeing unfold from the inside out. We are forced to isolate — to be vigilant, to be quiet, to watch and contemplate the possible implosion of our civilisation in real time. When we eventually step clear of this moment we will have discovered things about our leaders, our societal systems, our friends, our enemies and most of all, ourselves. We will know something of our resilience, our capacity for forgiveness, and our mutual vulnerability. Perhaps, it is a time to pay attention, to be mindful, to be observant.

As an artist, it feels inapt to miss this extraordinary moment. Suddenly, the acts of writing a novel, or a screenplay or a series of songs seem like indulgences from a bygone era. For me, this is not a time to be buried in the business of creating. It is a time to take a backseat and use this opportunity to reflect on exactly what our function is — what we, as artists, are for.

Saskia, there are other forms of engagement, open to us all. An email to a distant friend, a phone call to a parent or sibling, a kind word to a neighbour, a prayer for those working on the front lines. These simple gestures can bind the world together — throwing threads of love here and there, ultimately connecting us all — so that when we do emerge from this moment we are unified by compassion, humility and a greater dignity. Perhaps, we will also see the world through different eyes, with an awakened reverence for the wondrous thing that it is. This could, indeed, be the truest creative work of all.

Love, Nick x

- Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - 

 

 

As Pema Chödrön says, 

 

“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. 

 

They come together and they fall apart. 

 

 Then they come together again and fall apart again. 

 

It's just like that. 

 

The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” 

 

 

Stop apologizing. 

 

You don’t have to say sorry for how you laugh, how you dress, how you make your hair, how you do your makeup, how you speak. 

 

You don’t have to be sorry for being yourself. 

 

Do it fearlessly.

 

 It’s time to accept: this is you, and you gotta spend the rest of your life with you. 

 

So start loving your sarcasm, your awkwardness, your weirdness, your peculiar habits, your unique sense of humor, your voice, your talents, your everything. 

 

It will make your life so much easier to simply be yourself.

 

 

Don't expect different people

 

 to handle the same situations

 

 in the same way

 

 

De drang 

om greep te krijgen op je leven 

heeft jou in zijn greep. 

- Erik van Zuydam - 

www.inzicht-nu.nl 

De verleiding om op te geven 

is het sterkst 

vlak voor de overwinning.

- Zen - 

There is a peace that does not go.

 It does not want to go.

 It does not want to stay.

 It has no place to go. 

It simply is. 

It has no appointments to be somewhere else.

 Allow yourself to fall away from the shape of your mind.

 And don’t ask how. 

- Mooji -

Walter Mertens 

Petite âme un peu fragile,
recherche comment se protéger,
elle erre doucement sur sol d'argile,
souhaitant à le consolider,

elle s'est forgée une carapace,
pour éviter coups et blessures,
son cœur est devenu de glace,
marqué de quelques égratignures,
elle décide de prendre le temps,
de regarder son intérieur,
d'y introduire l'apaisement,
et de le repeindre en couleur,
elle se parfume de confiance,
et prend la vie avec amour,
se prépare à saisir la chance,
de repartir sur le parcours,
la carapace n'est pas tombée,
mais elle est de plus en plus légère,
et le soleil peut y entrer,
pour l'éclairer de sa lumière.


- Alexandra Julien -

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

 

 We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. 

 

They come together and they fall apart.

 

 Then they come together again and fall apart again. 

 

 It’s just like that. 

 

The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

- Pema Chödron -

LA CONFIANCE.

  La confiance est une petite flamme

qui n'éclaire rien

 mais qui tient chaud.


- Hôtel des deux mondes - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt -

 

 

  I feel in this time...it is a necessity to have a plan, a manifesto, an alternative. 

It’s a question of life and death for our species...after tragedies one has to invent a new world, knit it or embroider, make it up. 

It’s not gonna be given to you because you deserve it, it doesn’t work that way. 

You have to imagine something that doesn’t exist and dig a cave into the future and demand space. 

It’s a territorial hope affair...in the future it will become your reality.

- Björk -

Thought by itself has no power...

 

 It is only your belief in a thought

 

 that gives it life .

-Mooji-