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“We don't really know how letting go takes place. We want to know so we can make it happen. We want to be able to facilitate it, and of course also avoid anything that prevents it. And that's perfectly reasonable! But gradually we notice that letting go is not really our job. It is our task to
learn to leave things as they are.”
— Jon Bernie
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“The willingness to be surprised is really useful. Therefore, being wrong is one of my most favourite situations. I love to be wrong! It's very entertaining. And it is good to be amused about your wrong, because if your identity is involved in being right, believe me that you will suffer a lot.”
— Jon Bernie
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Having to be right has to do with faith - with, again, beliefs that we don't even know we have. Beliefs make the mind fragile and vulnerable. But when you get everything right in examining your mind it gradually becomes milder and malleable like moist clay. Asking yourself questions is the moisture that softens that hardness, that makes that rigidity relax.”
— Jon Bernie
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
"I've met many winners in history whose faces looked disgusting. Because I read you hatred and loneliness. Because they were nothing but winners and to become one they had to kill and subdue. But there is another race of men that helps us to breathe, who has always placed their existence and freedom only in the freedom and happiness of everyone, who finds the reasons to live and to love even in defeats. They, even if they win, will never be alone. "
— Albert Camus, "The Duty of Freedom"
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“ What's the point of talking about the unspeakable? Since reality is not defined, explained or understood by the analytical mind, why make an effort? The thinking mind, whatever burden he may be, is also a tool of the unspeakable and clearly wants to know and understand the goal. The sooner we can recognise his positive intention, the sooner he becomes our ally on the journey to the Unknown. When the mind becomes our ally, he becomes supportive and caring and patient. And useful! A relaxed, smooth working mind is a great tool to make use of.”
— Jon Bernie
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“You can get more stinkin' from thinkin' than you can from drinkin' - but to feel is for real.”
— Joe Miller
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“What light do we let shine on our experience? Maybe we should let the mental grip, the mental defence mechanism unravel, so that we can set the energy of what is emotionally held free - old pain, fear or old sadness - so that it is set in motion without being hindered by all those ideas or meaning that the mind gives it.”
— Jon Bernie
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Forgiveness is to relinquish your grievance and so to let go of grief. It happens naturally once you realise that your grievance serves no purpose except to strengthen a false sense of self. Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life -- to allow life to live through you.”
— Eckhart Tolle
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“But the amazing thing, that you discover as you gradually find your way on this mysterious path, is that all beliefs ultimately change or disappear. Ideas about how long it will last, even the idea of enlightenment - at a certain point you realise that they are no longer there.
Ideas, ideals in which we believe or that we pursue, can of course be useful; they can motivate us and maybe create some hope or certainty. That's fine. But eventually they disappear. We usually don't have to consciously let go of our beliefs; at a certain point they dissolve more or less by themselves, and gradually we notice that there is actually nothing left in which we believe.”
— Jon Bernie
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Our astronomy, our science, is today’s mythology.”
— Joseph Campbell
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Acceptance is a very deep area of learning, very profound. It is truly the essence of transformation, of what ultimately produces true freedom. Many teachings point to this. When we completely accept ourselves, then we are no longer focused on acceptance by others.”
"In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets"
~Jonas Mekas~
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
"Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides" ~ Carl Jung
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“You can make a faith out of everything I say and use it to make yourself suffer. If you notice that you do that I give you the advice to put it all in a black garbage bag and throw it away because every belief you have about spirituality will only get in the way.
If a lesson helps you to be in truth, it is useful. If that doctrine now, in this moment is not usable, forget it. And just be here.”
— Jon Bernie
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
@Jeroen said:
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I've named my video game character Ozymandius before
I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
I'd like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace through out the land
(That's the song I hear)
~ New Seekers
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“The truth is that as you become more and more aware of who you really are, you also become aware of that in other people. And when you see them as they really are, that gives them the chance to see themselves in that way. And that is the true transfer, the true impulse to acceptance. Listening is developing also, receiving what is given. Listening to that strengthens you infinitely. I can't explain it exactly, but it really is a kind of infinite expansion towards light and love and wonder.”
"3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace."
Ecclesiastes 3
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Once you have disidentified from your mind, whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all, so the forcefully compulsive and deeply unconscious need to be right, which is a form of violence, will no longer be there. You can state clearly and firmly how you feel or what you think, but there will be no aggressiveness or defensiveness about it. Your sense of self is then derived from a deeper and truer place within yourself, not from the mind.”
— Eckhart Tolle
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry -- all forms of fear -- are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
— Eckhart Tolle
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up a stone, and you will find me there.”
— Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“So the first thing to be understood is what this sleep consists in -- because Zen is an effort to become alert and awake. All religion is nothing but that: an effort to become more conscious, an effort to become more aware, an effort to bring more alertness, more attentiveness to your life.”
— Osho
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“It is a discourse on a man who believes himself to be of two natures: one high, man’s spiritual nature, the other low and animalistic, a “wolf of the steppes.””
JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Life is in sharing.”
— My mother
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Some Buddhist schools believe that if just one person were to become enlightened, suddenly the whole universe would attain to enlightenment.”
— Terence McKenna
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“The moment you say, "I should be like this," you are trying to improve upon God. You are saying, "You committed blunders -- I should have been like this, and you have made me like this?" You are trying to improve upon God. It is not possible. Your struggle is in vain -- you are doomed to failure.”
— Anonymous
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“A perfect man is a meeting of heaven and earth.”
— Taoist saying
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@Jeroen said:
“A perfect man is a meeting of heaven and earth.”
— Taoist saying
"Keep your head in the clouds and feet on the ground"
"Open heart, strong back"
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edited April 13
“Once while I was begging from door to door, I suddenly saw a gleaming chariot pull up to me and stop. When I beheld its lordly driver step down and smile at me with searching eyes, I immediately envisioned the unsolicited charity that would surely be mine.
But to my everlasting chagrin, this King of kings suddenly thrust out his hand and asked, "What have you got for me?" Oh, Lord, torn with perplexity and indecision, I offered you a mere grain of wheat and on my carpet that very night I found a grain of gold. How sorry I was that I had not given you everything I had!”
— Rabindranath Tagore
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edited April 13
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
— Taoist proverb
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
edited April 14
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Watts
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
― Lao Tzu
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“I can smile, and murder while I smile.”
— Shakespeare
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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
"If you want to control a people, create an imaginary enemy that appears more dangerous than you, then present yourself as their savior."
~Noam Chomsky~
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“A poet is not someone who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is someone who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely.”
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.
A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.
With such a people, you can do whatever you want.” ~Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher (1906–1975)~
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“We don't really know how letting go takes place. We want to know so we can make it happen. We want to be able to facilitate it, and of course also avoid anything that prevents it. And that's perfectly reasonable! But gradually we notice that letting go is not really our job. It is our task to
learn to leave things as they are.”
— Jon Bernie
“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz
“The willingness to be surprised is really useful. Therefore, being wrong is one of my most favourite situations. I love to be wrong! It's very entertaining. And it is good to be amused about your wrong, because if your identity is involved in being right, believe me that you will suffer a lot.”
— Jon Bernie
“Having to be right has to do with faith - with, again, beliefs that we don't even know we have. Beliefs make the mind fragile and vulnerable. But when you get everything right in examining your mind it gradually becomes milder and malleable like moist clay. Asking yourself questions is the moisture that softens that hardness, that makes that rigidity relax.”
— Jon Bernie
"I've met many winners in history whose faces looked disgusting. Because I read you hatred and loneliness. Because they were nothing but winners and to become one they had to kill and subdue. But there is another race of men that helps us to breathe, who has always placed their existence and freedom only in the freedom and happiness of everyone, who finds the reasons to live and to love even in defeats. They, even if they win, will never be alone. "
— Albert Camus, "The Duty of Freedom"
“ What's the point of talking about the unspeakable? Since reality is not defined, explained or understood by the analytical mind, why make an effort? The thinking mind, whatever burden he may be, is also a tool of the unspeakable and clearly wants to know and understand the goal. The sooner we can recognise his positive intention, the sooner he becomes our ally on the journey to the Unknown. When the mind becomes our ally, he becomes supportive and caring and patient. And useful! A relaxed, smooth working mind is a great tool to make use of.”
— Jon Bernie
“You can get more stinkin' from thinkin' than you can from drinkin' - but to feel is for real.”
— Joe Miller
“What light do we let shine on our experience? Maybe we should let the mental grip, the mental defence mechanism unravel, so that we can set the energy of what is emotionally held free - old pain, fear or old sadness - so that it is set in motion without being hindered by all those ideas or meaning that the mind gives it.”
— Jon Bernie
“Forgiveness is to relinquish your grievance and so to let go of grief. It happens naturally once you realise that your grievance serves no purpose except to strengthen a false sense of self. Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life -- to allow life to live through you.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“But the amazing thing, that you discover as you gradually find your way on this mysterious path, is that all beliefs ultimately change or disappear. Ideas about how long it will last, even the idea of enlightenment - at a certain point you realise that they are no longer there.
Ideas, ideals in which we believe or that we pursue, can of course be useful; they can motivate us and maybe create some hope or certainty. That's fine. But eventually they disappear. We usually don't have to consciously let go of our beliefs; at a certain point they dissolve more or less by themselves, and gradually we notice that there is actually nothing left in which we believe.”
— Jon Bernie
“Our astronomy, our science, is today’s mythology.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Acceptance is a very deep area of learning, very profound. It is truly the essence of transformation, of what ultimately produces true freedom. Many teachings point to this. When we completely accept ourselves, then we are no longer focused on acceptance by others.”
— Jon Bernie
"In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets"
~Jonas Mekas~
"Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides" ~ Carl Jung
“You can make a faith out of everything I say and use it to make yourself suffer. If you notice that you do that I give you the advice to put it all in a black garbage bag and throw it away because every belief you have about spirituality will only get in the way.
If a lesson helps you to be in truth, it is useful. If that doctrine now, in this moment is not usable, forget it. And just be here.”
— Jon Bernie
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor
I've named my video game character Ozymandius before
~ New Seekers
“The truth is that as you become more and more aware of who you really are, you also become aware of that in other people. And when you see them as they really are, that gives them the chance to see themselves in that way. And that is the true transfer, the true impulse to acceptance. Listening is developing also, receiving what is given. Listening to that strengthens you infinitely. I can't explain it exactly, but it really is a kind of infinite expansion towards light and love and wonder.”
— Jon Bernie
[A Time for Everything]
"3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace."
Ecclesiastes 3
“Once you have disidentified from your mind, whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all, so the forcefully compulsive and deeply unconscious need to be right, which is a form of violence, will no longer be there. You can state clearly and firmly how you feel or what you think, but there will be no aggressiveness or defensiveness about it. Your sense of self is then derived from a deeper and truer place within yourself, not from the mind.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry -- all forms of fear -- are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up a stone, and you will find me there.”
— Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas
“So the first thing to be understood is what this sleep consists in -- because Zen is an effort to become alert and awake. All religion is nothing but that: an effort to become more conscious, an effort to become more aware, an effort to bring more alertness, more attentiveness to your life.”
— Osho
“It is a discourse on a man who believes himself to be of two natures: one high, man’s spiritual nature, the other low and animalistic, a “wolf of the steppes.””
— Wikipedia on Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf
“Life is in sharing.”
— My mother
“Some Buddhist schools believe that if just one person were to become enlightened, suddenly the whole universe would attain to enlightenment.”
— Terence McKenna
“The moment you say, "I should be like this," you are trying to improve upon God. You are saying, "You committed blunders -- I should have been like this, and you have made me like this?" You are trying to improve upon God. It is not possible. Your struggle is in vain -- you are doomed to failure.”
— Anonymous
“A perfect man is a meeting of heaven and earth.”
— Taoist saying
"Keep your head in the clouds and feet on the ground"
"Open heart, strong back"
“Once while I was begging from door to door, I suddenly saw a gleaming chariot pull up to me and stop. When I beheld its lordly driver step down and smile at me with searching eyes, I immediately envisioned the unsolicited charity that would surely be mine.
But to my everlasting chagrin, this King of kings suddenly thrust out his hand and asked, "What have you got for me?" Oh, Lord, torn with perplexity and indecision, I offered you a mere grain of wheat and on my carpet that very night I found a grain of gold. How sorry I was that I had not given you everything I had!”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
— Taoist proverb
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Watts
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
― Lao Tzu
“I can smile, and murder while I smile.”
— Shakespeare
“Nothing is lost… Everything is transformed.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
"If you want to control a people, create an imaginary enemy that appears more dangerous than you, then present yourself as their savior."
~Noam Chomsky~
“A poet is not someone who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is someone who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely.”
— Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.
A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.
With such a people, you can do whatever you want.”
~Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher (1906–1975)~