No, you’re not wrong 

to expect a love that respects and values you

 for the person you are.

 You’re wrong to expect anything less.

 

 

 

 by Tom Gauld

 

 Silence isn’t empty 

 It’s full of answers.

 

 

BEWEGEN IS GOED 

MEER BEWEGEN IS BETER

 Dead Poets Society (1989)

LOVE 

KNOWS NO AGE

 

 Er is geen spirituele taak

Er valt niets te bereiken

Er zijn alleen maar gedachten

die zeggen dat er

iets te bereiken valt

Hoe zou het zijn

zonder die gedachten?

- Erik van Zuydam -

 Yorkshire Dales National Park. England.

 

We don’t ‘get over’ or ‘move on’ from trauma. 

We are forced to make space for it. 

We carry it. 

We learn to live with it.

 And, sometimes,

 we thrive in spite of it.

- Unknown -

 

 

 You are not responsible

 for the version of you 

that exists

 in other people’s minds.

 

You are not your feelings. 

You just experience them. 

Anger, sadness, hate, depression, fear. 

This is the rain you walk in. 

But you don’t become the rain.

 You know the rain will pass. 

You walk on. 

And you remember the soft glow 

of the sun that will come again.

- Matt Haig -

 

 Met dank aan Frieda !

Het probleem is niet 

dat er problemen zijn.

Het probleem is 

denken dat problemen hebben

een probleem is. 

- Theodore Rubin -

 

 

 

Even in the greatest yogi, sorrow and joy still arise just as before. The difference between an ordinary person and the yogi is how they view their emotions and react to them.

An ordinary person will instinctively accept or reject them, and so arouse the attachment or aversion that will result in the accumulation of negative karma.

A yogi, however, perceives everything that rises in its natural, pristine state, without allowing grasping to enter his perception.

- Rigpa Glimpse of the Day -

 

CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN 

CONFRONT WHAT YOU CAN'T

 

 

ONE FOOT 

IN FRONT 

OF THE OTHER

NOTHING MORE

NOTHING LESS

Too many people 

think 

their opinions 

are facts 

 

 

 Ask yourself 

if what you’re doing today

 is getting you closer 

to where you want to be

 tomorrow.

- Unknown -

 

 

Do not run away from the heavy emotions. 

Honour the anger. 

Give pain the space it needs to breathe. 

This is how we let go.

- Yung Pueblo -

 

 She picked up the broken pieces of her life 

and created something beautiful. 

From that day forth she shone like the sun 

and changed the definition of broken.

- Randall M. Gore -

 

 

 

 

@lurie_john

 

 The true luxuries in life 

include slow mornings,

 being with the people you love,

 homemade food, 

quiet moments, 

uninterrupted quality time, 

nature, 

learning, 

growth, 

deep sleep, 

a good book, 

the freedom to travel, 

digital detoxes,

 tea rituals, 

watching the sunset...

- Tiny Buddha -

@thesigmamindset

 

Poetry is just the evidence of life.

 If your life is burning well, 

poetry is just the ash.

- Leonard Cohen -

NITCH