Het is helemaal ok om te zeggen 

"weet je wat, dit maakt me niet gelukkig” 

 en dan ook wat afstand te nemen

 van wat of wie het ook is dat je weghoudt 

van de rust en het evenwicht dat je verdient en nodig hebt.

- Rustpunt -

Photo by Marcel Giró, 1960-70s 

 

 

I find workaholism really anti-fertile. 

For example, in my work with Scandinavian schools with biophilia, it is very apparent that short schooldays and a lot of free time inspires the imagination most and not only makes the kids happier but also they make more original things in the end

I’ve seen how the working until midnight in the biggest cities is really destructive...and you aren’t coming up with any new ideas but just repeating old stuff on a loop.

-  Björk -

NITCH

 

When you criticize someone, 

 

see if you are doing it out of envy.

 

 Your criticism reveals more about yourself

 

 than you realize.

 

❖ Haemin Sunim❖ 

 

 

Stephen Howard - Morning Light (Tree Island series), 2007 

The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle:

Totally fascinated by the realm of the senses,

it swings from one desire to the next,

 one conflict to the next,

one self-centered idea to the next.

 If you threaten it, it actually fears for its life.

 Let this monkey go.

 Let desires go.

conflicts go.

the fiction of life and death go.

Just remain in the centre, watching.

-Lao Tzu -

Have an uncomfortable mind; be strange.

 

 Be disturbed: by what is happening on the planet, and to it;

 

 by the cruelty, and stupidity humanity is capable of; 

 

by the unbearable beauty of certain music, 

 

and the mysteries and failures of love, 

 

and the brief, confusing, exhilarating hour of your own life.

 

- Kim Addonizio - Bukowski in a Sundress -

When patterns are broken

 new worlds emerge.

 -Tuli Kupferberg-

Maarten Van Der Kamp

Finally, ultimately, you write...for yourself.

 I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. 

I'm not working in isolation. 

But finally the man...is alone. 

And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

-  Philip Glass -

NITCH 

 

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

- Carl Jung -

Christer Strömholm. Paris, 1962.

Gedachten hebben op zichzelf geen kracht. 

 

 

Het is jouw geloof in een gedachte

 

 die de gedachte leven geeft

 

 

Field of children at summer camp,

 near Bad-Kissingen, Germany, 1929

Who will you love if not yourself? 

 

Other people? 

 

How can you love someone for anything but their raw, naked humanity? 

 

How can you say you love someone if it is not for their flaws and quirks, snorts and hurts, triggers and tears? 

 

Anything else is not love.

 

 It is idealization.

 

 And, as long as you do it to yourself, you will do it to everyone. 

 

You will not love anyone or anything until those eyes in the mirror soften up and embrace the beauty that is already within.

 

 

- Vironika Tugaleva -

- Shel Silverstein -