zondag 19 augustus 2018

Conflicten vermijden

om de vrede te bewaren

veroorzaakt onrust in jezelf.

Blu e Verde

We only hurt others

because we don’t love ourselves.

Learning to truly love yourself

changes your relationship with everyone.

- Bryant McGill -

Ninety per cent of the world's woe

comes from people not knowing themselves,

their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues.

Most of us go almost all the way through life

as complete strangers to ourselves -

- so how can we know anyone else?

- Sydney J. Harris -

En wie de zeeën vreest,

hij blijve aan de kusten.

- Pierre de Marbeuf -

Je hebt op zee geen wegen,

De zee kent geen verklaringen.

- Alessandro Baricco -

Nobody escapes being wounded.

We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually.

The main question is not, ‘How can we hide our wounds?’ so we don’t have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?’

When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.

- Henri Nouwen -

It is essential to leave some space empty;

you could — and should — never fill in all the blanks.

It starts with being willing to feel what we are going through.

It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet.

If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we’re feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.

- Pema Chödrön -

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it.

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all.

When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

Het gaat niet over hoe het had kunnen zijn.

Het gaat over wat je er NU van maakt.

It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well.

The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them.

And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is about...

and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are.

- Werner Herzog -

NITCH

We have an idea of happiness. We believe that only certain conditions will make us happy. But it is often our very idea of happiness that prevents us from being happy. We have to look deeply into our perceptions in order to become free of them.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -