Inspiratie

Inspiratie komt vanuit ons hart, raakt ons en zet daarmee iets in beweging. In beweging naar onze Waarheid.

Meditation is more than sitting in silence

“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.”

― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

 

The Sea  

I spent that afternoon in silence, just watching the vast ocean spray the stone and re-form itself, coating every surface, as if to soothe the stone’s hardness. I came away convinced that the sea is a great teacher of receiving.
Always rising and falling like the clear blood of the earth, the formless water receives everything that enters it. It rejects nothing.
Always transparent, the open water gently covers everything; softening whatever it touches, giving itself completing without losing any of itself.

The more I watched, the more I realized that the sea is both strong and gentle, sensitive and unwavering, it only takes the shape of what holds
it or enters it. Whatever breaks its surface ripples through its entire being. So much like the heart of God.
So much like the heart of experience, God’s smaller face in the world. I came away with spray on my face wanting to be like the sea,
to love like the sea: to receive and give myself to everything I meet, softening its way while making it glisten. - Mark Nepo

The limit

“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think ‘Okay, this is the limit’. As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct and your experience as well, you can fly very high”

- Ayrton Senna

Bhagavad Gita

Het maanlicht

Het licht van de maan dat in een stil water weerspiegeld wordt, is mooier dan de maan zelf, omdat het nu over een medium beschikt dat de volmaaktheid ervan beter weergeeft dan de maan dat kan.

Licht in het licht is prachtig, maar licht in de duisternis is veel stralender en mooier, dankzij de duisternis. In elke les is er de mogelijkheid om het donker of de schaduw in jezelf te ontmoeten.

Om niet voor de weerstand weg te lopen, maar om er met compassie bij te blijven. De moed te verzamelen om te voelen wat gevoeld wil worden, om hiervan uit te kunnen stralen.

Alles van jou mag er zijn, ook de delen van jezelf die je nog niet accepteert.

Recht om te twijfelen

‘Ieder mens heeft het recht om aan zijn opdracht te twijfelen, en deze af en toe in de steek te laten; het enige wat je niet mag doen is hem vergeten.
Wie niet twijfelt aan zichzelf, is onwaardig - want hij vertrouwt blindelings op zijn capaciteiten, en begaat de zonde van trots.
Gezegend is ieder die zijn momenten van twijfel heeft.’
- Paulo Coelho


Felt sense prayer

I am the pain in your head, the knot in your stomach, the unspoken grief in your smile.

I'm your high blood pressure, your elevated blood pressure, your fear of challenge, your lack of trust. I'm your hot flashes, your fragile low back, your agitation, and your fatigue.

You tend to disown me, suppress me, ignore me, inflate me, coddle me, condemn me. You usually want me to go away immediately, to disappear, just back into obscurity.

More times than not, I'm only the most recent notes of a long symphony, the most evident branches of roots that have been challenged for seasons. So, I implore you. I am a messenger with good news, as disturbing as I can be at times.

I am wanting to guide you back to those tender places in yourself, the place where you can hold yourself with compassion and honesty. I may ask you to alter your diet, get more sleep, exercise regularly, breathe more consciously. I might encourage you to seek a vaster reality and worry less about the day-to-day fluctuations of life.

I may ask you to explore the bonds and the wounds of your relationship. Wherever I lead you, my hope is that you will realize that success will not be measured by my eradication, but by the shift in the internal landscape from which I emerge. I am your friend, not your enemy. I belong. I have no desire to bring pain and suffering into your life.

I'm simply tugging at your sleeve, too long immune to gentle nudges. I desire for you to allow me to speak to you in a way that enlivens your higher instincts for self-care. My charge is to energize you, to listen to me with the sensitive ear and heart of a mother attending to her precious baby. You are a being so vast, so complex with amazing capacities for self-regulation and healing.

Let me be one of the harbingers that lead you to the mysterious core of your being, where insight and wisdom are naturally available when called upon with a sincere heart

Deep listening

To listen is to continually give up
all expectation and to give our attention,
completely and freshly,
to what is before us,
not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean.
In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in,
softly, with a willingness to be changed
by what we hear.
- Mark Nepo