vrijdag 23 september 2022

UNE DISTANCE CRITIQUE.

Mal lire ne consiste pas à jeter le livre.

Mal lire revient à prendre un texte pour argent comptant,

à l'avaler tout cru sans le mâcher avec son esprit.

Bien lire implique une distance critique.

- L'homme qui voyait à travers les visages -

- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt -

Zonneschijn is heerlijk,

regen verfrist,

de wind versterkt

en sneeuw maakt vrolijk.

Slecht weer bestaat niet;

er zijn alleen verschillende soorten

goed weer.

- John Ruskin -

donderdag 22 september 2022

Rod Stribley

How Presence Helps You Face Life's Challenges | Eckhart Tolle Teachings

Have patience

with everything

that remains unsolved in your heart.

Live in the question.

- Rainer Maria Rilke -

There is nothing special about the wise ones

they have only stopped believing their minds

To make the present our friend

instead of struggling with it,

is such a welcoming idea.

Yes, some things are out of our control

but the rest we can work on letting it all go,

let it teach us what we need to know

so we can enjoy our days that much more.

You’re overthinking because you really care.

You don’t want to fail.

You don’t want to let people down.

But no amount of planning, worrying, or over-analyzing

can give you control over what happens next.

Breathe.

Loosen your grip.

Experience life as it comes.

- Michell C Clark -

We exhaust ourselves in three ways:

We create fabrications like mental concepts.

We exert a lot of effort.

We create many objects or targets in our minds.

These are the three things that really tire us.

It is like an insect caught in a spider’s web:

the more agitated it becomes,

the more tangled it gets in the web.

This creates real suffering, real torment for the mind.

-Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche -

Your anger?

It’s telling you where you feel powerless.

Your anxiety?

It’s telling you that something in your life is off balance.

Your fear?

It’s telling you what you care about.

- Brianna Wiest -

woensdag 21 september 2022

FEEL THE FEELING

BUT DON'T BECOME THE EMOTION

WITNESS IT

ALLOW IT

RELEASE IT

Land of shadows by John Bjerregaard

Wat andere mensen van je denken

is hun eigen realiteit,

niet de jouwe.

@_Francis_co_Art - Warm lines

But then it passed,

as all things do.

- Khaled Hosseini -

Time isn't precious at all,

because it is an illusion.

- Eckhart Tolle -

dinsdag 20 september 2022

Throw everything out of your mind…

read a little, sleep.

The world will still be here when you wake up,

and there’ll still be everything left to do.

- James Baldwin -

@Futura_Noir

DAGGEDICHT – Billy Collins (1941) - Good News

Good News

When the news came in over the phone

that you did not have cancer, as they first thought,

I was in the kitchen trying to follow a recipe,

glancing from cookbook to stove,

shifting my glasses from my nose to my forehead and back,

a recipe, as it turned out, for ratatouille,

a complicated vegetable dish

which you or any other dog would turn up your nose at.

If you had been here, I imagine

you would have been curled up by the door

sleeping with your head resting on your tail.

And after I learned that you were not sick,

everything took on a different look

and appeared to be better than it usually is.

For example (and that's the first and last time

I will ever use those words in a poem),

I decided I should grate some cheese,

not even knowing if it was right for ratatouille,

and the sight of the cheese grater

with its red handle lying in the drawer

with all the other utensils made me marvel

at how this thing was so perfectly able and ready

to grate cheese just as you with your long smile

and your brown and white coat

are perfectly designed to be the dog you perfectly are.

Uit: Horoscopes for the Dead. Picador Poetry

***

Het goede nieuws

Toen het nieuws kwam via de telefoon

dat je geen kanker had, zoals ze eerst dachten,

was ik in de keuken aan het proberen een recept te volgen,

kijkend van kookboek naar fornuis

mijn bril verschuivend van neus naar voorhoofd en weer terug,

Het bleek een recept voor ratatouille,

een ingewikkelde groenteschotel

waar jij en iedere andere hond zijn neus voor op zou halen.

Als je erbij was geweest had je, denk ik

opgekruld bij de deur liggen slapen

met je kop rustend op je staart.

En nadat ik wist dat je niet ziek was,

zag alles er opeens anders uit

en leek beter te zijn dan het meestal was.

Ik besloot bijvoorbeeld (en dat is de eerste en de laatste keer

dat ik die woorden ooit in een gedicht zal gebruiken),

dat ik wat kaas moest gaan raspen,

terwijl ik niet eens wist of dat wel hoorde bij ratatouille,

en de aanblik van die kaasrasp met zijn rode handvat

die daar zo lag in de keukenla,

samen met al het andere keukengerei maakte me verwonderd

over hoe perfect en gebruiksklaar

dat ding was om kaas te raspen net zoals jij met je brede glimlach

en je bruin-witte vacht

zo perfect ontworpen bent om de hond te zijn die je ook perfect bent.

The freedom

to make my own mistakes

is all I've ever wanted.

- Ciaran Hinds -

Ciaran Clear, Irish oil on board

Tell the negative committee

that meets inside your head

to sit down and shut up.

- Ann Bradford -

Remember, remember,

this is now, and now, and now.

Live it, feel it, cling to it.

I want to become acutely aware

of all I’ve taken for granted.

- Sylvia Plath -

Someday soon

I hope you make peace

with where you thought

you should be now.

- Kristin Lohr -

Wars arise partly from commercial reasons, but they also arise from the ill-will, the anger, the conflict, and the “us versus them” mentality.

That’s what causes war.

So, we cannot find the antidote when we ourselves are still in that state of mind. It’s obvious, isn’t it?

If we want peace, we have to have peace within ourselves first, because our society is the reflection of the inner psyche and the minds of the beings inhabiting that society.

Who is society if not us?

We make our own environment, we destroy our own environment.

And as long as our minds are full of the 3 poisons – the poison of ignorance, delusion, and confusion – of not seeing clearly at all; the poison of our greed, incessant longing, wanting and the “I-must-have” mentality; and the poison of ill-will, anger, conflict– then that’s what society is going to give us back. It just mirrors back the state of our own minds -the state of our own psyches.

- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo -

maandag 19 september 2022

Leef naar jouw waarheid

We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything!

The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth.

We could swear they are real.

We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking-we take it personally-then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison in our word.

That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems.

We make assumptions, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

L'ESPRIT D'ENFANCE.

À 40 ans, j’ai découvert l’esprit d’enfance. Qu’est-ce ? Le sens de l’étonnement, la curiosité, l’appétit, l’enthousiasme, le goût du jeu, l’humilité, la modestie, la confiance dans l’inconnu, ces qualités dont nous jouissons avant de les abîmer ou les égarer. Sans rebrousser chemin, il faut les récupérer.

Aujourd’hui, je me force à lutter contre l’illusion de savoir. J’ai la passion du nouveau. Je refuse la fatigue de vivre. Je proscris le sentiment de déjà-vu ou de déjà-entendu. Je casse toute habitude. J’entends cultiver la fraîcheur, la saveur de la première fois, la naïveté éternelle.

L’art m’y aide. Quand j’admire un tableau ou que j’écoute une musique, je deviens vierge, neuf, j’assiste à une épiphanie. L’aube scintille

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