Until you heal your past, 

 

your life patterns and relationships

 

 will continue to be the same;

 

 it’s just the faces that change.

 

- Tiny Buddha - 

 

 

 

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

 

 

You probably wouldn't worry 

 

about what people think of you

 

 if you could know 

 

how seldom they do. 

 

- Olin Miller -

... that only one thing is more frightening

 

 than speaking your truth.

 

 And that is not speaking.

 

- Audre Lorde -

As you are more quiet inside you can see your own thoughts a little more clearly, you will see your mother’s voice and all your education principles’ voices inside your head constantly saying things to you — what Freud calls the Superego.

 

 #RamDass

 

 

 

You have the power of choice to take different actions that can change generations to come. 

This is the blessing of being human. 

We can always choose again.

- Barb Schmidt - 

 

Eileen Caddy

Wanneer je perfecte vrede in jezelf hebt, besteed je geen tijd meer aan pogingen om anderen te veranderen.

The goal of meditation 

 

isn't to control your thoughts.  

 

It's to stop letting them control you.

 

 

 

Acceptatie lijkt op niets doen 

maar in werkelijkheid 

is het de eerste stap 

op een nieuwe weg.

- Olaf Hoenson -

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. 

 

We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. 

 

We grow partially.

 

 We are relative. 

 

We are mature in one realm, childish in another. 

 

The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. 

 

We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

 

- Anaïs Nin -

Vrijheid is wat wij doen 

met wat ons wordt aangedaan.

- J.P. SARTRE -

Don't we have enough ugliness already? 

 

And don’t we know these things already? 

 

Why always fight ugliness with ugliness, stupidity with stupidity, displaying still more and more of it? 

 

Why not create something beautiful to fight the ugliness with...

 

fight ugliness just by being there, 

 

by emanating beauty, peace, truth.

 

-  Jonas Mekas -

 

NITCH

 

 

Never forget how far you've come. 

 

Everything you have gotten through. 

 

All the times you have pushed on even when you felt you couldn't. 

 

All the mornings you got out of bed no matter how hard it was. 

 

All the times you wanted to give up but you got through another day...

 

- Tiny Buddha -