- Charles Juliet -

A quiet mind

 

 cureth all.

 

- Robert Burton -

Together we have stepped into history and are now living inside an event unprecedented in our lifetime. Every day the news provides us with dizzying information that a few weeks before would have been unthinkable. What deranged and divided us a month ago seems, at best, an embarrassment from an idle and privileged time. We have become eyewitnesses to a catastrophe that we are seeing unfold from the inside out. We are forced to isolate — to be vigilant, to be quiet, to watch and contemplate the possible implosion of our civilisation in real time. When we eventually step clear of this moment we will have discovered things about our leaders, our societal systems, our friends, our enemies and most of all, ourselves. We will know something of our resilience, our capacity for forgiveness, and our mutual vulnerability. Perhaps, it is a time to pay attention, to be mindful, to be observant.

As an artist, it feels inapt to miss this extraordinary moment. Suddenly, the acts of writing a novel, or a screenplay or a series of songs seem like indulgences from a bygone era. For me, this is not a time to be buried in the business of creating. It is a time to take a backseat and use this opportunity to reflect on exactly what our function is — what we, as artists, are for.

Saskia, there are other forms of engagement, open to us all. An email to a distant friend, a phone call to a parent or sibling, a kind word to a neighbour, a prayer for those working on the front lines. These simple gestures can bind the world together — throwing threads of love here and there, ultimately connecting us all — so that when we do emerge from this moment we are unified by compassion, humility and a greater dignity. Perhaps, we will also see the world through different eyes, with an awakened reverence for the wondrous thing that it is. This could, indeed, be the truest creative work of all.

Love, Nick x

- Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - 

 

 

As Pema Chödrön says, 

 

“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. 

 

They come together and they fall apart. 

 

 Then they come together again and fall apart again. 

 

It's just like that. 

 

The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” 

 

 

Stop apologizing. 

 

You don’t have to say sorry for how you laugh, how you dress, how you make your hair, how you do your makeup, how you speak. 

 

You don’t have to be sorry for being yourself. 

 

Do it fearlessly.

 

 It’s time to accept: this is you, and you gotta spend the rest of your life with you. 

 

So start loving your sarcasm, your awkwardness, your weirdness, your peculiar habits, your unique sense of humor, your voice, your talents, your everything. 

 

It will make your life so much easier to simply be yourself.

 

 

Don't expect different people

 

 to handle the same situations

 

 in the same way

 

 

De drang 

om greep te krijgen op je leven 

heeft jou in zijn greep. 

- Erik van Zuydam - 

www.inzicht-nu.nl 

De verleiding om op te geven 

is het sterkst 

vlak voor de overwinning.

- Zen - 

There is a peace that does not go.

 It does not want to go.

 It does not want to stay.

 It has no place to go. 

It simply is. 

It has no appointments to be somewhere else.

 Allow yourself to fall away from the shape of your mind.

 And don’t ask how. 

- Mooji -

Walter Mertens 

Petite âme un peu fragile,
recherche comment se protéger,
elle erre doucement sur sol d'argile,
souhaitant à le consolider,

elle s'est forgée une carapace,
pour éviter coups et blessures,
son cœur est devenu de glace,
marqué de quelques égratignures,
elle décide de prendre le temps,
de regarder son intérieur,
d'y introduire l'apaisement,
et de le repeindre en couleur,
elle se parfume de confiance,
et prend la vie avec amour,
se prépare à saisir la chance,
de repartir sur le parcours,
la carapace n'est pas tombée,
mais elle est de plus en plus légère,
et le soleil peut y entrer,
pour l'éclairer de sa lumière.


- Alexandra Julien -

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

 

 We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. 

 

They come together and they fall apart.

 

 Then they come together again and fall apart again. 

 

 It’s just like that. 

 

The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

- Pema Chödron -

LA CONFIANCE.

  La confiance est une petite flamme

qui n'éclaire rien

 mais qui tient chaud.


- Hôtel des deux mondes - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt -

 

 

  I feel in this time...it is a necessity to have a plan, a manifesto, an alternative. 

It’s a question of life and death for our species...after tragedies one has to invent a new world, knit it or embroider, make it up. 

It’s not gonna be given to you because you deserve it, it doesn’t work that way. 

You have to imagine something that doesn’t exist and dig a cave into the future and demand space. 

It’s a territorial hope affair...in the future it will become your reality.

- Björk -

Thought by itself has no power...

 

 It is only your belief in a thought

 

 that gives it life .

-Mooji-