Maria Laura Bratoz

 

 

WIE IN ZICHZELF GELOOFT 

 

HOEFT ZICHZELF 

 

NOOIT TE BEWIJZEN 

 

 Ons lichaam praat altijd met ons.

 Elk gevoel, irritatie, pijn of ongezond proces 

vraagt ons om ons bewust te zijn 

van alles wat ons schaadt.

 

 

 

DAGGEDICHT - Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)

 

Mijn vader 

 

De herinnering aan mijn vader is verpakt in wit papier

als de boterhammen voor een werkdag. 

 

Als een goochelaar die uit zijn hoed konijnen haalt en torens,

haalde hij uit zijn kleine lichaam liefde. 

 

De rivieren van zijn handen

mondden uit in goede daden. 

 

Uit: Aan de oever der wijde zee: zeven Hebreeuwse dichters van nu. 

 

 Foto: Yehuda Amichai

 

 

 

Sensibility 

is a form of intelligence,

 and it is useless 

to try to explain it

 to those who lack it.

 

 

The world changes

 according to the way people see it,

 and if you alter, 

even by a millimeter,

 the way people look at reality, 

then you can change it.

- James Baldwin -

NITCH

 

 

Ik heb een innerlijke vriend

 die dagelijks 

met me wandelt en praat.

-Ernest Holmes-

 

 

 

 

 

Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch;
Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions.
If you have got to think about something—
Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death.

 

GYALSÉ RINPOCHE

 Oyster Bay by Caroline Smith

 

 

Sommigen geloven,

er zijn er die twijfelen,

Sommigen denken.

 

Ik ben een van degenen die denken:

Ik denk dat ik denk dat ik twijfel.

 

- Lodewijk Scutenaire -

 

 

 

 The magic happens after you accept that you can’t regulate other peoples emotions or experiences. 

That’s when you start living your most authentic life. 

Some people will get you, but what matters is that you get you. 

Be kind, help others, but don’t forget to live for yourself.

- Yung Pueblo -

 

 

 No one expected me. 

Everything awaited me.

- Patti Smith -

NITCH

 

 

The more often you listen to your discriminating awareness, the more easily you will be able to change your negative moods yourself, see through them, and even laugh at them for the absurd dramas and ridiculous illusions that they are.

Gradually you will find yourself able to free yourself more and more quickly from the dark emotions that have ruled your life, and this ability to do so is the greatest miracle of all.

The Tibetan mystic, Tertön Sogyal, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.

- Rigpa Glimpse of the Day -

 

 Merci Frieda !

 

Like a child at the cinema, we get caught up in the illusion. 

From this comes all of our vanity, ambition, and insecurity. 

We fall in love with the illusions we have created and develop excessive pride in our appearance, our possessions, and our accomplishments. 

It’s like wearing a mask and proudly thinking that the mask is really you.

- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche -

 

The Buddha said, “you do not learn to give.”

So the poor man said, “If I’m not having anything?”

Buddha said: “You have a few things,

The Face, which can give a smile;

Mouth, you can praise or comfort others;

The Heart, it can open up to others;

Eyes, who can look the other with the eyes of goodness;

Body, which can be used to help others.”

So, actually, we are not poor at all, poverty of spirit is the real poverty.

Zen Mindfulness, Love and Compassion.