zaterdag 5 september 2015




Don't bend; 
don't water it down;
 don't try to make it logical;
 don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.
 Rather,
 follow your own intense obsessions mercilessly.
 
 - Franz Kafka -



donderdag 3 september 2015




The central problem

is not that you think too highly of yourself. 

 Nor is it that you think too lowly of yourself. 

Instead, 

it is that you think constantly of yourself.  

- Yuben de Wu Hsin-







If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you

as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves

rather than a statement about your value as a person,

then you will,

over a period of time

cease to react at all.

Yogi Bhajan 




   I allow this moment 
 
 
to be as it is.
 
 
 
- Eckhart Tolle -

woensdag 2 september 2015




Een aap had twee handen vol met erwten.
Een klein erwtje viel op de grond.
Hij probeerde het op te rapen, 
waarbij hij er twintig liet vallen.
Hij probeerde die twintig erwten op te pakken, 
en liet daarbij alles vallen. 


- Ljev Tolstoj - 
 
 
 



Whatever life takes away from you, 

let it go.


- Miguel Ruiz-
 
 
 
 

zondag 30 augustus 2015

R.I.P. Oliver Sacks


Dat ik als nadenkend wezen
op deze prachtige planeet kon zijn,
is een enorm voorrecht en avontuur geweest.

- Oliver Sacks in de New York Times -

vrijdag 28 augustus 2015





Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! 
 
We are happy 
in proportion to the things 
we can do without.
 
 
 - Henry David Thoreau -



donderdag 27 augustus 2015




Zie erop toe
dat niemand jou je onzekerheden afpakt,
want zekerheid is dood zaad.

- Leonard Nolens -

De vrek van Missenburg
Dagboek 1990-1993








… it is so important to let certain things go.
To release them. To cut loose.
 People need to understand
that no one is playing with marked cards;
 sometimes we win and sometimes we lose.
 Don’t expect to get anything back,
don’t expect recognition for your efforts,
 don’t expect your genius to be discovered,
or your love to be understood.
Complete the circle.
 Not out of pride, inability or arrogance,
but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life.
 Close the door, change the record,
clean the house, get rid of the dust.
Stop being who you were and become who you are.

 - Paulo Coelho -
 
 
 
 

David Sylvian & Ingrid Chavez - Time Spent




The heart of another 
is a dark forest,
 always,
 no matter how close it has been 
to one’s own. 
 
- Willa Cather -