Stop Imagining

 Pay Attention 

 

We miss the real 

by lack of attention,

 and create the unreal

 by excess of imagination.

 

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj -

 The moment you change your perspective, 

is the moment you rewrite your life.

 To avoid being trapped by any patterned belief, 

seek being present to build self-awareness.

 

 

 

 Auditur et altera pars.

 The other side shall be heard as well.

 

 

 

 If someone can prove me wrong 

and show me my mistake

 in any thought or action,

 I shall gladly change. 

 I seek the truth, 

which never harmed anyone:

 the harm is to persist 

in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

 

 

 

To be aware 

of a single shortcoming within oneself 

is more useful

 than to be aware of a thousand

 in someone else. 

- Dalai Lama -

 

 

 Sometimes

 the easiest way to end an argument

 is to decide you want to understand someone

 more than you want to prove them wrong.

- Lori Deschene -

 

 

 What are you grateful for?

 

 I wish the world were ending tomorrow. 

Then I could take the next train, 

arrive at your doorstep

…and say:

 

 'Come with me...

we are going to love each other

 without scruples or fear or restraint.

 Because the world is ending tomorrow.' 

 

Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably 

because we think we have time, 

or have to reckon with time.

 But what if we don't have time? 

Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? 

Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. 

We could help each other very much.

- Franz Kafka-

NITCH

 

 

 Your life

 is a complex and ever-changing flow of thoughts, emotions, and actions.

 To put it another way, 

you are more like a river than a statue. 

Stop trying to define yourself with negative labels.

 - David D. Burns -

 

 

 De persoon

 die geen vrede heeft met zichzelf

 zal oorlog hebben met iedereen.

 

 

 

 Since everything

 is a reflection of our minds,

 everything can be changed

 by our minds. 

- tibetan proverb -

 

 

 There is a time in your life when the life you have been living is over and you have no clue who you are becoming.

Don't hold onto what must die and don't fear what must lie ahead.

 Life /death/ life is a universal cycle of transformation that keeps recurring whenever there is time to grow and expand. 

It's a leap of faith one must take, surrender into, or sacrifice, in order to be grown into the next version of yourself.
 
- Marion Woodman -

 

 

 

STOP AND BE

 Stopping brings your body and mind together, back to the here and now.

 When you stop and sit quietly and become silent within, you become more solid, more concentrated, and clear.

 Often we tell ourselves, “Don’t just sit there, do something!” 

But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: “Don’t just do something, sit there!” 

 We must learn to stop from time to time in order to see clearly. 

This is not just a reaction; it is a way of life.

 Humankind’s survival depends on our ability to stop rushing.

- Thich Nhat Hanh -