NEXT WEEK 

HAS BEEN EXHAUSTING

 

 

 I write

and that way

rid myself of me

and then at last I can rest.

- Clarice Lispector -

 

 

 

 

Because you are, you can think. 

If you choose, you can fully be and still not think.

 The most beautiful moments in your life

– moments of bliss, 

moments of joy,

 moments of ecstasy,

 moments of utter peace –

 were moments when you were not thinking about anything.

 You were just living.

- Source: brahman-god-oceanoflove -

 

 

When we are angry, 

when we are excited, 

when we are depressed, 

when we are elated, 

we are completely submerged in and identified

 with those thoughts and feelings. 

This is why we suffer.

 We suffer because we are completely identified

 with our thoughts and feelings

 and we think this is me. 

This is who I am.

– Tenzin Palmo -

 Freedom , India © Ashish Langade

 

 

Pleasure is always derived

 from something outside you,

whereas joy

 arises from within.

 
- Eckhart Tolle -

 Jude Allen 

 

No one is going to rescue you from yourself

— your inner demons,

 your lack of confidence, 

your dissatisfaction with yourself and your life

Only self-love and good decisions 

will rescue you.

- Jenni Young -

 

 Down the Bay, Photo by Bert Hardy, 1950

 

 

 

 The role of the artist

 is to not look away. 

- Akira Kurosawa -

 Pilgrim’s Way, Kent, Photo by Bill Brandt

 

 

 

 If you aren’t busy being born,

 you’re busy dying.

 

 

 

 

 Feeling the need to be busy all the time

 is a trauma response and a fear-based distraction

 from what you'd be forced to acknowledge and feel

 if you slowed down.

- Dr. Sarah Sarkis-

 

 

 

 What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. 

We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all.

 The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.

-  Haruki Murakami -

 

NITCH

 

 

 

 

Als mijn weg

in jouw ogen een omweg is,

mag ik dan toch mijn weg gaan? 

 

 

 

I am more greatly moved

 by people who struggle to express themselves

I prefer…incoherence in the face of great feeling

 to beautiful, full sentences 

that convey little emotion.

- Daniel Day-Lewis -

 

 

 

 The thing we learn from history

 is that no one learns from history.

- Alan Watts -

 Tom Waits, Photo by Robert Frank, 1986