zaterdag 29 mei 2021
Every fact of science was once damned.
Every invention was considered impossible.
Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy.
Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly.
The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority.
We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent.
As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.’
- Robert Anton Wilson -
donderdag 27 mei 2021
NOW is a good place to be
Whatever you challenge is now,
look at it.
Face it, do not avoid it.
Bravery is called for.
Breathe deep, and leap in.
As a wise elder once said :
'the only way out... is through'
You got this.
You're not alone.
Ask for advice.
Keep an eye on the horizon,
and an eye on the steps ahead.
- Waylon H. Lewis -
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.
But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.
Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes.
All is a miracle.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -
We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie.
It is true that the world is renewed.
It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested.
The flower that wilted last year is gone.
Petals once fallen are fallen forever.
Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced.
It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid.
- Daniel Abraham, The Price of Spring -And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.
woensdag 26 mei 2021
Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment
that something else is more important than fear.
The brave may not live forever,
but the cautious do not live at all.
From now on you’ll be traveling the road
between who you think you are
and who you can be.
The key is to allow yourself
to make the journey.
- Meg Cabot -
We sometimes wake up fresh in the morning yet still go through the day half asleep.
Our busy 21st century lives overwhelm us with a relentless stream of immediate tasks.
We lose sight of how precious it is just to have a human life.
This is an awareness that we need to feel in our hearts.
I would like to share with you a practice that I call ‘living your whole life in a single day.’
You can do this by starting with this thought in the morning: 'I am starting a whole new life. It begins right now’.
Initially, leave yourself a note at your bedside to remind you, and then slowly cultivate the habit of waking up with this thought.
Your body is fresh from the night’s rest; when you wake up with this awareness, so does your mind.
Ask yourself what kind of person you want to be in the life that you will live today.
Throughout the day, remind yourself that your life is happening right now.
In the afternoon, check to see how your life is going and readjust as needed.
A whole lifetime of possibilities stretches out before you every moment.
This is the basic truth of interdependence.
Conditions are constantly shifting, and what seemed impossible earlier can suddenly become possible.
Every moment counts.
Every action counts.
A single kind act can have a positive impact on the future of many others you share the earth with.
You can change the course of the future in any moment.
Do so consciously, and the whole world will benefit.
– 17th Karmapa -
dinsdag 25 mei 2021
Water does not resist.
Water flows.
When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.
Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you.
But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.
Water is patient.
Dripping water wears away a stone.
Remember that, my child.
Remember you are half water.
If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it.
Water does.
- Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad -
As an introvert,
you can be your own best friend or your own worst enemy.
The good news is,
we generally like our own company,
a quality that extroverts often envy.
We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.
Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.
- Laurie Helgoe -
maandag 24 mei 2021
And the people stayed home.
And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.
And listened more deeply.
Some meditated, some prayed, some danced.
Some met their shadows.
And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed.
And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.
- Kitty O'Meara - And The People Stayed Home -
I had ambitions to set out and find…like an odyssey or
going home somewhere…set out to find this home that I'd left a while
back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way
there.
And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all.
I didn't really have any ambition at all.
I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?
- Bob Dylan -
NITCH
Let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow
not in each other's shadow.
Khalil Gibran - The Prophet
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