Close each day

 with a smile.

- Dodinsky - 

Don’t play ping-pong with your mind.
Simply stay as the detached witnessing presence.
When left alone, mind calms down by itself.


But don’t wait for this to happen.
Just remain as the unmixed presence.


Observe without interest or identity from a space of neutrality.
Confirm yourself as impersonal awareness.



Live above the mind.

- Mooji -

Nothing binds you
except your thoughts;

nothing limits you
except your fear;

and nothing controls you
except your beliefs.

- Marianne Williamson -

FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out

You’re too busy wishing you were someplace else

 to really enjoy

 whatever it is that you’re doing at the moment.

 Stephen Mariani

 

A coward

 

 judges all he sees

 

 by what he is.

 

- Stephen King -

IN STILTE 

KUN JE  BETER HOREN

Zwerver,

er is geen weg,

 de weg ontstaat

 door te lopen...

- Antonio Machado -

We’re blind 

to our blindness.

- Daniel Kahneman -

I paint very large pictures.

 

 I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. 

 

The reason I paint them, however, is precisely because I want it to be very intimate and human.

 

 To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience... you paint the larger picture, you are in it.

 

- Mark Rothko -

 

NITCH

 

Nothing is weaker than water,
But when it attacks something hard
Or resistant, then nothing withstands it,
And nothing will alter its way.

The above passages from the Tao Te Ching illustrate to us the nature of water: Water is so fine that it is impossible to grasp a handful of it; strike it, yet it does not suffer hurt; stab it, and it is not wounded; sever it, yet it is not divided. It has no shape of its own but molds itself to the receptacle that contains it. When heated to the state of steam it is invisible but has enough power to split the earth itself. When frozen it crystallizes into a mighty rock. First it is turbulent like Niagara Falls, and then calm like a still pond, fearful like a torrent, and refreshing like a spring on a hot summer’s day.

So is the principle of wu wei:

The rivers and seas are lords of a hundred valleys. This is because their strength is in lowliness; they are kings of them all. So it is that the perfect master wishing to lead them, he follows. Thus, though he is above them, he follows. Thus, though he is above them, men do not feel him to be an injury. And since he will not strive, none strive with him.

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Be like water making its way through cracks.

 Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.


Empty your mind, be formless.

Shapeless, like water.

If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.

 You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle.

You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.

Now, water can flow or it can crash.

Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee

A smile

 makes you master

 of yourself.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -