http://pleasesmilebeautiful.tumblr.com/post/44762838513

You need not worry about your worries.
Just be.
Don’t be restless about ‘being quiet’,
miserable about ‘being happy’.
Just be aware that you are and remain aware -
don’t say: “Yes I am; what’s next?” 
There is no ‘next’ in ‘I am’.

It is a timeless state.
 
- Nisargadatta Maharaj -

“It’s always Now.” 

- Eckhart Tolle -



 

Potential 

http://www.rarewords.org/2011/01/potential/

IK MOET STOPPEN 

MET MOETEN

 

http://squareone-learning.com/blog/2012/02/teaching-cartoon-holding-back/

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential — for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible."

  - Soren Kierkegaard-

http://www.huttenbouw.com/page6.php

 

http://www.funnytimes.com

If you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn,
let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything,
give everything up.  

 

- Tao Te Ching -

Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky -

 

No object of desire 

 

is worth your peace. 

- Papaji -

"I said to the sun, “Tell me about the big bang.” 

The sun said, “It hurts to become." 

- Andrea Gibson -

 http://anatomy-of-recovery.tumblr.com/post/16083296808/i-said-to-the-sun-tell-me-about-the-big-bang

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty:  

to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, 

more and more peace, 

and to reflect it towards others.  

And the more peace there is in us, 

the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.

- Etty Hillesum -

Reflectie

http://www.nationalgeographic.nl/fotografie/foto/reflectie-2-5

Pain is not a punishment; 

 

pleasure is not a reward.

 

 

  -  Pema Chödrön - When Things Fall Apart

“If we can really understand the problem, 

the answer will come out of it, 

because the answer is not separate from the problem”

 

 Jiddu Krishnamurti

http://easyouth.blogspot.be/2012/11/lessons-learned-in-life.html

“Develop the quiet, even state of mind.
When praised by some and condemned by others,
free the mind from hate and pride,
and gently go your way in peace.”

 The Heart of a Buddha

"Everyone has it in them to express themselves that fundamental thing that they know they are inside. That rather beautiful afraid person. Which might get translated into aggression, or silence, or shyness, or all kinds of other things. But inside we know that we are huggable and lovable, and we want to love and be loved. That person is yearning for fulfillment. To be the person they know they can be and that's a constant journey; that's a process."

 - Stephen Fry -

 http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/fry-a-day/page/1238

One way to prevent yourself 

from going through a considerable amount of useless pain 

is to see the truth of the following:

judging others doesn't change how much they disturb you; 

it serves only to distract you 

from seeing

just how little it actually takes to set you off.

- Guy Finley - 

 http://www.guyfinley.org

Wanneer we, op de pijnlijke plekken waar we gekwetst zijn en waar we ons hebben teruggetrokken, niet in staat zijn te vergeven, blijven we slachtoffer van het verleden. 

Alleen door liefdevol te zijn naar zowel onze kwet­singen als onze ouders, kunnen we ons daad­werkelijk verzoenen met ons leven. 

De kernvraag is hier: willen wij liefdevol zijn waar de wereld niet liefdevol was?

- Paula van Lammeren, Rianne van Rijsewijk - 

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