In order to cultivate a quiet sense of space we need to have the opportunity for stillness and practice. 

Then that quiet mind can be turned towards anything and can focus on our problems, challenges, our options and so forth.

 It is perfectly reasonable to set aside a certain amount of time during which we resolve to sit and quiet the mind and then deal with the problem.

- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo -

In m'n hoofd

 

 

 Om te geraken tot wat ge niet weet, 

moet ge gaan langs de weg 

van het niet-weten. 

- Juan de la Cruz -

 

 

 Pain may arise.

 Don’t worsen it with resistance. 

Pleasure may arise. 

Don’t diminish it by grasping. 

 Allow all to be as it is.

- Wu Hsin -

 

 

 Everything we hear 

is an opinion,

 not a fact.

  Everything we see

 is a perspective, 

not the truth.

- Marcus Aurelius -

 Learn the art of saying 'no'. 

Don't lie. 

Don't make excuses. 

Don't over-explain yourself. 

Just simply decline.

- Unknown -

Maybe you´re not Alone... By The Cartoonists

 

 The only way 

to find true happiness

 is to give it away

 to others.

 

 

 

Her courage

 was her crown 

and she wore it 

like a queen.

- Atticus -

 

 

When feeling overwhelmed

 by a faraway goal, 

repeat the following:

 I have it within me right now 

to get me to where I want to be later.

- Karen Salmansohn -

 

 

 We are so numb 

we don't even know 

what a direct experience is.

 We have an experience, 

then we think about it 

and we think the thinking about it 

is the experience. 

- Stephen Levine -

 

 

 Ein Mensch sieht ein -

 und das ist wichtig: 

Nichts ist ganz falsch

 und nichts ganz richtig.

- Eugen Roth -

 

 

S'il y a un remède,
Pourquoi être mécontent ?
Et s'il n'y en a pas,
À quoi bon s'irriter ? [...]

Bodhicaryavatara

 

 

 

 If, then, 

I were asked 

for the most important advice 

I could give, 

that which I considered 

to be the most useful

 to our century,

 I should simply say: 

in the name of God, 

stop a moment, 

cease your work,

 look around you'

- Leo Tolstoy -

 

 

 

Als het spel gespeeld is, 

 

gaan de koning en de pion 

 

terug in dezelfde doos.

Italiaans gezegde

 

 

 

Your life isn’t yours

 if you constantly care

 about what others think.

- Unknown -

R.I.P. Paul van Vliet

 

 'k ben het misschien niet eens met jou, 

en jij bent het misschien niet eens met mij.

 Maar laten we het daar dan over eens zijn

- Paul van Vliet -

 

Introverts don't read words, they read moods. 

They read energy. 

They read vibes. 

The sadness in your tone, the happiness in your eyes, and the excitement in your gestures.

 They may not say much, but trust me, they notice everything.

 

 - Milan Kundera -

 

We live under the impression 

that in order for something to be divine

 it has to be perfect. 

We are mistaken.

 The exact opposite is true. 

To be divine is to be whole

  and to be whole is to be everything: 

the positive and the negative,

 the good &the bad, 

the holy man and the devil.

 

Don't plant your bad days. 

They grow into weeks. 

The weeks grow into months.

 Before you know it you got yourself a bad year.

 Take it from me. 

Choke those little bad days.

 Choke 'em down to nothin'. 

They're your days. 

Choke 'em!

- Tom Waits - 

NITCH

 

 

Use what seems like poison as medicine.

 Use your personal suffering

 as the path to compassion for all beings. 

- Pema Chodron -

 

→ Before the Black 

 

Minimalism, as an art form, demands comprehension in order to unveil its captivating essence. 

 

A slowed-down and occasionally challenging experience, it invites us to immerse ourselves within the depths of its imagery. 

 

To truly appreciate its masterpieces, we must endure their intensity. 

 

Once ensnared by its profound allure, one remains eternally beguiled.

 

 @kathrinfederer

 

 

Brahms walked into a liquor store and asked for a good bottle of wine. 

The clerk, having recognized him, returned with a Riesling, saying: "This vintage is to wines what Brahms is to music." 

Brahms looked it over, smiled, and said: "Well then, please bring me a bottle of Bach."

 

 

There are some people who always seem angry

 and continuously look for conflict. 

Walk away;

 the battle they are fighting isn’t with you,

 it is with themselves.

 

 The meaning of life 

is that it stops.

- Franz Kafka -

 

The best people I know

 are always evaluating and improving themselves. 

The unhappy people 

are usually evaluating and judging others.

- Lisa Villa Prosen -

 

 Glen Coe, Scotland

 

 The highest form of intelligence

 is to observe yourself 

without judgment.

- Marianne Williamson -

  There is only one thing

 I fear in life, my friend:

 one day, 

the black will swallow the red.

- Mark Rothko -

 

 

Dear Me,

Don’t fall back

 into your old patterns 

just because they’re familiar.

love, Me x

 

 

 

 It is already hard enough to understand what someone is saying.

 Discussion is just an exercise in narcissism where everyone takes turns showing off. 

Very quickly, you no longer have any idea what is being discussed.

 Gilles Deleuze

 

 

 

 

 

The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves,

 but providing little gaps of solitude and silence

 in which they might eventually find something to say... 

What a relief to have nothing to say,

 the right to say nothing,

 because only then is there a chance of framing...

the thing that might be worth saying.

- Gilles Deleuze -

NITCH

 

 

 

 If you get in a stream,

 you stir up the mud,

 but sit on the bank 

& it clears up. 

Similarly, with the mind, 

observe but don’t jump in.

 

 

The Dragon’s Tail. 

St.Kilda looking towards the island of Dun with a view of Levenish

 https://buff.ly/3UVXNqt #Scotland #photography

 

 

Je hebt niemand verloren.

Degenen die zijn gestorven zijn slechts voor ons uit gegaan.

We gaan tenslotte allemaal die kant op.

En het beste deel van hen, hun liefde, leeft verder in jouw hart.

 

-Facundo Cabral-

 

 

 

 

 People sometimes fail to live

 because they are always 

preparing to live. 

- Alan Watts -

 Yesterday is gone

 and its tale told.

 Today 

new seeds are growing.

- Rumi -

 

 "How far away are we," he sighed.

 'From what?'

'From ourselves.'

- Gabriel García Marquez -

 

 If I am wrong, 

educate me. 

Don’t belittle me.

 

 

 

You are OK 

and all is good.

 

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Do not fear mistakes. 

There are none. 

- Miles Davis - 

 

 

 If worried about people's opinions,

 remember they are too busy 

worrying about other people's opinions of them.

 99% of the time you're an extra in someone else's movie.

 

 

 

Don't be afraid of perfection. 

You'll never reach it.

- Salvador Dalí -

 

 

 

 Nobody in the world can insult me, 

because it is in my hands. 

If I accept the insult, 

it is okay;

 if i don't accept it, 

you have to carry it to your home.

 Nobody can humiliate me.

 Humiliation needs my acceptance. 

And I am not accepting it. 

- Osho -