For last year's words belong to last year's language, 

And next year's words await another voice, 

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

 

- T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets -

 

 

I believe that we, this planet, hasn't seen its golden age. 

Everybody says it's finished...

art's finished, rock and roll is dead...

fuck that! 

This is my chance in the world. 

I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia. 

I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden.

 I wasn't there with Emperor Han. 

I'm here right now and I want now to be the golden age... 

If only every generation would realize 

that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive...

the time to flower is now.

- Patti Smith - 

NITCH

 

 

Merci Joost :)

 

Bedankt Frieda 

 

 

midwivesofthesoul

There will always be an infinity of things to do.

We can never get our life or our business or our kitchen running exactly the way we want it to run. No matter how we envision it, it can’t be that way.

Life is not predetermined to the point that we can get to some stage and then see how it all works.

What happens is that we have a better and better understanding of things, we have more and more clarity and ability to deal with things as they arise. But they keep arising, endlessly.

The empty sky is always creating new clouds.
 

- Edward Espe Brown -

 

 

 Thanks Frieda

- Valériane Leblond -

 

 

Hoop draagt een pak van veren,

 

zit in de ziel 

 

en zingt onvermoeibaar 

 

een deuntje zonder woorden; 

 

maar in de storm 

 

is zijn gezang het zachtst.

 

- Emily Dickinson -

- Elin Manon -
 

The most beautiful gift of this wintertime 

 

is ultimately something that is unspeakable;

 

 it is only livable. 

 

The winter is actually begging you

 

to just let go, and then let go of letting go. 

 

Let this natural and spontaneous returning 

 

to the root of your own existence happen. 

 

Return to that which is not definable.

 

- Adyashanti -

 

 

 

poetryofdhiman

I hope you know this: this year wasn't just about the hardships you have faced, the times you fell down or the mistakes you have made.

 

 This year was also about how much you have grown, all the progress you have made and the stronger you have become along the way.

 

 Please don't be hard on yourself just because a year from your life did not turn out exactly the way you had planned. 

 

Trust that maybe through this year of struggle, letting go and change life was teaching you how to believe, how to be strong and brave for the rest of the journey ahead.

 

 - Dhiman 🌻

 

 

 

 

 

When I get confused, annoyed, or disheartened by someone’s behavior I repeat the words of Maya Angelou as my affirmation of truth:

“When people show you who they are believe them.”🌼

Some people will burn the bridge, 

then ask why you don't visit.

-unknown-

 

We were searching for ourselves

 in each other.

- Sergei Parajanov - 

NITCH

 

 

 

Night is purer than day; 

it is better for thinking, loving, and dreaming. 

At night everything is more intense, more true. 

The echo of words

 that have been spoken during the day

 takes on a new and deeper meaning.

- Elie Wiesel -

 

 Opinions divide. Empathy connects. 

Opinions are easy. Empathy is work. 

Opinions keep us stuck. Empathy promotes growth.⁣ 

Leading through hard things with empathy is not easy.

 But I believe it’s the bigger picture of growth and healing.

 If we meet hard things with opinions,

 we have ego work to do. ⁣

 

 

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; 

any situation between people, 

when they are really human with each other, 

produces 'intelligence'.

- Susan Sontag - 

 

 

 

 Hoop heeft 2 prachtige dochters: 

woede en moed. 

Woede over hoe de dingen nu zijn

 en de moed om te geloven

 dat ze niet zullen blijven

 zoals ze nu zijn.

 - St. Augustinus -

 

 

 

NOTHING KILLS YOU 

LIKE YOUR MIND 

 

 

I think if you can take care of yourself,

 and then maybe try to take care of someone else, 

that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

- Bill Murray - 

 NITCH

 

 

We enter that strange period between Christmas and New Year, when time seems to muddle, and we find ourselves asking again and again, What day is it? What date? I always mean to work on these days, or at least to write, but this year, like every other, I find myself unable to gather up the necessary intent. 

 

I used to think that these were wasted days, but I now realise that’s the point.

 

 I am doing nothing very much, not even actively being on holiday.

 

 I clear out my cupboards, ready for another year’s onslaught of cooking and eating.

 

 I take Bert out to play with friends.

 

 I go for cold walks that make my ears ache. 

 

I am not being lazy.

 

 I’m not slacking.

 

 I’m just letting my attention shift for a while, away from the direct ambitions of the rest of my year. 

 

It’s like revving my engines.

 

- Katherine May -

 

 

 May you be surrounded by friends and family,

and if this is not your lot, 

may the blessings find you in your solitude.

- Leonard Cohen -

NITCH

 

 

Labi Siffre - Something Inside So Strong (with lyrics)

In the general uproar of gifts and unwinding of wrappers

 it was always a delight for me to step out on the porch

 or even go out on the street a ways at one o’clock in the morning

 and listen to the silent hum of heaven diamond stars,

 watch the red and green windows of homes, 

consider the trees that seemed frozen in sudden devotion,

 and think over the events of another year passed.

- Jack Kerouac -

NITCH

 

R.I.P. DESMOND TUTU

 

 Do your little bit of good where you are; 

it's those little bits of good put together

 that overwhelm the world.

 
- Desmond Tutu-

 

 

Bing Crosby & David Bowie - "The Little Drummer Boy (Peace On Earth)"

 

Let there be light in the darkness

 

Chris rea - driving home for christmas

 © The estate of Patrick De Spiegelaere

 

R.I.P. Bernard Dewulf

 

Who Am I?

Who am I to spout about life, love, happiness? 

About whether all’s right with the world, or whether it’s just a vale of tears... 

I think it’s unbelievable, fabulous, this life of ours…everything, the birds and the bees, the deer and the antelope, the spacious skies, the foggy dew, the rockabye babies… 

My wife’s embrace, a landing on the moon, space, time, eternity. 

I don’t understand one damn thing about any of it, except that it’s enough to keep me in a constant delirium of delight, surprise, enthusiasm, despair, enough to keep me roaming, stumbling, faltering, cursing, adoring, hating the destruction, the violence in myself and others.

- Ed van der Elsken -

    NITCH

 

 

 

 

 

How do you let go of attachments to things?

 Don’t even try.

 It’s impossible. 

Attachment to things drops away by itself 

when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

- Eckhart Tolle -

 

In It Together

 

Giving our children the freedom to define

 their own version of success, 

instead of what society considers "successful,"

 is one of the most empowering gifts 

we can give the next generation.

- Shelly Robinson -

 

 

 Painting by Hans Andersen Brendekilde

 

As long as we know in our hearts 

what Christmas ought to be,

 Christmas is.

- Eric Sevareid -

 

 

 

 

 https://www.instagram.com/reel/CXrtCgQPXo7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

 

 Valériane LeBlond 

 

Every so often, stop all that doing for a bit. 

There is presence in this moment 

and no worries about the future. 

There is peace, contentment, warmth, and happiness, 

just here, 

just as you are.

 

 

 

 

 Empathy has no script. 

There is no right way or wrong way to do it. 

It's simply listening, 

holding space, 

withholding judgment, 

emotionally connecting, 

 and communicating that incredibly healing message of

'you are not alone.'

 - Brené Brown -

 

 

The real difficulty

 is to overcome

 how you think about yourself.

- Maya Angelou -

 

- Valériane LeBlond - 

 

 

You aren’t treating yourself with love and respect 

when you internalize others’ dissatisfaction

and take it on

 as your own problem.

- Ilene S. Cohen -

 

 

 

 

Denying our emotions is an insult

 to the journey of what it means

 to be a human being, 

and it does nothing 

to help people feel better.

- Michael James -

 

 Psychiater Dirk De Wachter heeft zichzelf ooit een verdrietdokter genoemd. Maar wat als de dokter zelf in de problemen komt? Dan doet een goed gesprek met zijn collega Peter Adriaenssens veel deugd.

 'Mijn diagnose heeft mijn leven overhoop gehaald.'

  Hij kreeg de diagnose in het midden van de zomer, flanerend door Parijs, de stad van zijn hart. Kanker. Sinds het verdict ziet het leven van psychiater Dirk De Wachter er anders uit.

 'Mijn opinies over mezelf en de wereld zijn er niet door veranderd', vertelt hij. 'Maar de plotse confrontatie met de dood is wel heftig. Ik weet niet hoe de ziekte zal evolueren. Dat brengt veel onzekerheid met zich mee. Het is moeilijk om die onzekerheid weg te denken. Daarom vind ik het aangenaam om hier even met jullie samen te zitten. Dat leidt me af. Ik prijs mezelf ook bijzonder gelukkig dat ik zo goed omringd ben. Ik sta niet alleen in de wereld. Eenzaamheid is volgens mij van het ergste dat een mens kan overkomen. Zelf had ik me nooit eenzaam gevoeld. Tot ik enkele maanden geleden op de afdeling intensieve zorg belandde en ik niet veel bezoek mocht ontvangen. Ik sliep er moeilijk, terwijl slaap heel belangrijk is voor mij. Woelend kan een nacht lang duren, en dan sluipt de eenzaamheid de ziekenkamer binnen. Gelukkig was er die geweldige poetsvrouw met wie ik enkele fantastische gesprekken had. Toen zij binnenwandelde, dacht ik: ha, een mens om mee te spreken! Het was een Tibetaanse. Ze heeft me veel interessante dingen over haar land verteld.'
... 

- Knack - 

 

 

 

 Make the choices that best provide what you need, 

and most deeply affirm who you are — 

those that bring strength to your soul, 

balance to your life, …

and life to your dreams. 

- Paula Finn -

Don't search for the answers, 

which could not be given to you now, 

because you would not be able to live them...

the point is, to live everything. 

Live the questions now. 

Perhaps then, someday far in the future, 

you will gradually, 

without even noticing it, 

live your way into the answer.

- Rainer Maria Rilke - 

 

 

You do not need to always conceptualize,

 interpret, 

or label everything 

that comes into your awareness.

- Eckhart Tolle -

 

 

Medicine Man

 

 

 

Do you do any sports? 

Yes, I run away from my feelings...