Any thought that's believed, 

consciously or unconsciously, 

is going to distort your perception

 of what is.

- Adyashanti -

 

Well, what are you?… 

What are you conscious of in yourself? 

Your kidneys? Your liver? Your blood vessels? No. 

However far back you go in your memory, it is always in some external, active manifestation of yourself that you come across your identity…in the work of your hands, in your family, in other people.

 And now listen carefully. 

You in others…this is your soul.

 This is what you are.

 This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life…your soul, your immortality, your life in others. 

And what now? 

You have always been in others and you will remain in others.

 And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory?

 This will be you…

the you that enters the future and becomes part of it.

- Boris Pasternak - 

NITCH

 

  

sistercody

I know that I can’t control everything that happens in life, but I can control how I react. I know that life will present many challenges, but it is up to me how I respond. I can always choose to see things in a new way. I know things that once made me angry, now make me smile. I know things I once saw as a curse, I now see as a blessing. I know that things are happening in this world that make me sick, but being angry and hateful isn’t the energy I want to carry if I want to help make a difference and remain peaceful within. 

I can choose to yell at the world, but I can also choose to smile at it. I can choose to react out of emotion, or I can choose to respond with love. I can choose to hold in my pain, or I can turn it into a picture. I can choose to sit and hold the sadness or I can choose to go on a walk with nature and breathe. I can choose to focus on the misery of the world, or the hope. I have so many choices, always.
I’m not saying this is easy. It takes conscious work, practice, and patience. But we have WAY more power than we know. We make thousands of choices in a day, most that we are unaware of because they are deep in the subconscious. But bring them to the surface and make them conscious, and you will see how many choices you really have. LET US CHOOSE LOVE over and over. And let us be patient with ourselves on this journey ❤️

 

 

 

 

 Good days and bad days. 

Keep your focus the same.

 

Merci Frieda !

 

 

 In today’s rush, 

we all think too much...

seek too much ...

want too much...

and forget about the joy of just being.

- Eckhart Tolle -

 This is a big lesson I’ve been learning. The more I wish this moment looked different, felt different, sounded different, etc., the more separated I become from this moment. From everything. I get lost in my mind, which is the opposite of the present moment. 

I’ll find myself outside looking at and appreciating a beautiful sunset with birds flying by and the the cacti blooming their beautiful flowers, and I’ll think “I wish I was just a bit happier” and instantly I am separated from what is. Or I’ll be feeling confused and lost and just wishing I wasn’t confused and lost. And that just causes even more internal conflict.

 I’m learning to just be with what is. Exactly how it is. Not my idea of how it should look. No expectations or judgments. Just being. Even if this moment feels hard. Because this moment is a miracle. This moment is more magical than anything my mind could imagine it to be or any desire I may have.

-SisterCody - 

 

People say you have to travel to see the world. 

 Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place 

and keep your eyes open,

 you're going to see

just about all that you can handle.

- Paul Auster -

NITCH

 

Tenderness

 

 Most humans are never fully present in the now, 

because unconsciously they believe

 that the next moment must be more important

 than this one. 

But then you miss your whole life, 

which is never not now.

 - Eckhart Tolle -

 

Merci Veerle !

 

 

- Valériane Leblond -

 

 

ALSOF JE IETS EEN PLAATS KAN GEVEN 

IETS KOMT LANGS

EN GAAT ZITTEN WAAR HIJ WIL

- Ruth Vandesteene - 

 

 

 

Het lijkt alsof onze gedachten 

ons niet met rust kunnen laten, 

maar de waarheid is, dat wij onze gedachten 

niet met rust kunnen laten.

- Erik van Zuydam -

 

 

 Life is a matter of choices,

and every choice you make 

makes you.

- John C. Maxwell - 

 

 

 

 

 

How Are You, Really?

 - Tara Westover -

Portraits of monks from La Grande Chartreuse

 

 De spiegel zelf ziet niets - 

ze reflecteert alleen. 

- auteur onbekend -

 

 

 

 I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. 

Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. 

Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. 

The cloud clears as you enter it. 

I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

- Beryl Markham -

 

Most people don’t grow up.

 It’s too damn difficult. 

What happens is most people get older.

 That’s the truth of it. 

They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. 

Not really. 

They get older.

 But to grow up costs the earth, the earth.

 It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. 

 It’s serious business.

 And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. 

And maybe even more, to succeed.

What it costs, in truth. 

Not superficial costs, anybody can have that, I mean in truth.

-  Maya Angelou  -

NITCH

 

 

 

 The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.

The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.

- Arnold Bennett -

 

Whatever

needs to be said
has already been said –
maybe it has been said
a million times.
Now be quiet.
The answer is not found
inside words.
The answer
is hidden inside
your emptiness.
Be empty like
a full, round moon.

 

★ Guthema Roba 

 

 

 

 

 

There is never any end. 

There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. 

And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state.

 So that we can see more and more clearly what we are. 

In that way, we can give to those who listen the essence, the best of what we are. 

But to do that at each stage, we have to keep on cleaning the mirror.

-  John Coltrane -

NITCH

 

 

Sea of Love - Valériane Leblond

 

 

J U S T 

A 

S I M P L E 

L I F E ...

 

 

 A good definition of being a victim

 is when you keep the focus outside yourself, 

when you look outside yourself 

for someone to blame for your present circumstances, 

or to determine your purpose, fate, or worth.

 
- Edith Eger -

Will do Frieda :)

 

 Vulnerability

 is not winning or losing; 

it's having the courage

 to show up and be seen 

when we have no control over the outcome.

 Vulnerability is not weakness;

 it's our greatest measure of courage.

 

- Brené Brown -