Them: What do you do for a living.

Me: I try my best.

Always sing loud and proud!

 

Sing

 

 like no one can hear you!

 

 

 

ENJOY THE ORDINARY 

Don’t feel stupid 

if you don’t like

 what everyone else pretends to love.

- Emma Watson -

Vergelijk jezelf met niemand 

en je zult een jaloezievrij leven genieten. 

Ga alle vergelijkingen strikt uit de weg. 

Dat is het gouden pad. 

- Rolf Dobelli - 

In the practice of tolerance,

 one’s enemy

  is the best teacher.

 - Dalai Lama -

Optimist:  Vandaag ben ik weer een dag jonger  dan morgen.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty.

We can’t simply relax with ourselves.

 We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

 We feel that someone else knows what’s going on, but that there’s something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.

That’s the compassionate thing to do.

That’s the brave thing to do.

We can’t just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

It’s better to take a straight look at all our hopes and fears.

Then some kind of confidence in our basic sanity arises.


- Pema Chödron -

Let op de kleine dingen, 

ook een klein gaatje 

kan een groot schip doen zinken. 

- B. Franklin - 

 

Als je dit als uitgangspunt neemt, kom je altijd uit bij het beginpunt: jezelf. 

 

Het gaat altijd over jou, nooit over de ander. 

 

Dit maakt je vrij. 

 

Vrij om verantwoordelijk te zijn voor je eigen leven en de (nieuwe) keuzes die je kunt maken.

 

 

Anita van Ostaden   

When we pause, when we touch the energy of the moment,

when we slow down and allow a gap,

self-existing openness comes to us.

It does not require any particular effort.

It is available anytime…

- Pema Chödrön -

To be or not to be busy

To be busy making choices and taking actions to live your life fully is wonderful, but to stay busy because you are avoiding feelings, or something in your life that needs your attention is a waste of your precious time and energy.

 

 It's ok not to be busy.

 

 It's in the quiet time you have with yourself just being where the healing, understanding, and magic of life happens.

 

- Barb Schmidt - 

 

 

What if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measurement of importance? 

What if instead we celebrated how much time we had spent listening, pondering, meditating, and enjoying time with the most important people in our lives?

- Greg McKeown -

You are not what you feel.

 

 Your feelings can be intense. 

 

They can be overwhelming.

 

 But they are something you experience. 

 

The you is separate. 

 

You walk in the rain and you feel the rain 

 

but - important - YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN.

 

Feeling stuck is a feeling, 

 

not a fact.