maandag 2 juli 2018

Aberdeenshire - Scotland

When we survey our lives...we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings... We eat food that others have grown, wear clothes that others have made, live in houses that others have built. The greater part of our knowledge and beliefs has been communicated to us by other people through...language which others have created. Without language our mental capacities would be poor indeed... The individual, if left alone from birth would remain primitive and beast-like in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly conceive. The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has, not so much in virtue of his individuality, but rather as a member of a great human society..."

- Albert Einstein -

Geluk zit niet in het veranderen van hoe je je je nu voelt.

Geluk zit in het ontspannen in hoe je je nu voelt.

- Erik van Zuydam -

Find the peace that does not need to be practiced,

because any peace that is merely an outcome of practice

will collapse under stress.

- Mooji -

Jij bent de blauwe lucht.

En je gedachten zijn wolken die voorbijdrijven.

Ze komen

en ze gaan.

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

- Adyashanti -

Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -

zondag 1 juli 2018

I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.
I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.
Sometimes, this is my busy -
and I will not apologize for it.

- Brittin Oakman -

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement.

- Hermann Hesse -

A nightingale’s song
Brings me out of a dream:
The morning glows.

- Ryōkan Taigu -

Let your ears hear whatever they want to hear;
let your eyes see whatever they want to see;
let your mind think whatever it wants to think;
let your lungs breathe in their own rhythm.
Do not expect any special result,
for in this wordless and idea-less state,
where can there be past or future,
and where any notion of purpose?
Stop, look, and listen..