Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

Do you prefer to be right, or happy?

The 4-Hour Workweek)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoVqLBPEXfM

Sirs, for a mind that cannot stand alone, search will have no meaning at all. To stand alone is to be uncorrupted, innocent, free of all tradition, of dogma, of opinion, of what another says, and so on. Such a mind does not seek because there is nothing to seek; being free, such a mind is completely still without a want, without movement. But this state is not to be achieved; it isn't a thing that you buy through discipline; it doesn't come into being by giving up sex, or practicing a certain yoga. It comes into being only when there is understanding of the ways of the self, the 'me', which shows itself through the conscious mind in everyday activity, and also in the unconscious. What matters is to understand for oneself, not through the direction of others, the total content of consciousness, which is conditioned, which is the result of society, of religion, of various impacts, impressions, memories - to understand all that conditioning and be free of it. But there is no ''how'' to be free. If you ask how to be free, you are not listening.

Krishnamurti

If love is not the answer, you are asking the wrong question.

I don't ask you to believe in me.
I ask you to believe in yourself.

A true leader

We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

Dr. Robert Schuller

Turning a Gallon of Water Into Energy

"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."

Lao Tzu

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

In Tibetan language there's no word for 'guilty'. The closest thing is 'intelligent regret that decides to do things differently'.

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

Think Different

Ultimately, humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we are to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to feel a vivid sense of universal altruism. It is only this feeling that can remove the self-centered motives that cause people to deceive and misuse one another. If you have a sincere and open heart, you naturally feel self-worth and confidence, and there is no need to be fearful of others

Dalai Lama

True creativity comes when you say fully yes to the present moment.
That includes whatever happened in the past.

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

Life is lived forwardly, but understood backwardly.
Kierkegaard

Rick Warren on a life of purpose | Video on TED.com

Rick Warren on a life of purpose | Video on TED.com

His Holiness the Karmapa: The technology of the heart | Video on TED.com

His Holiness the Karmapa: The technology of the heart | Video on TED.com

String of Precious Jewels

I'll tell you briefly the fine qualities
Of those on the path of compassion:
Giving, and ethics, patience, and effort,
Concentrating, wisdom, compassion and such.

Giving is giving away what you have,
And ethics is doing good to others.
Patience is giving up feelings of anger,
And effort is joy that increases all good.

Concentration's one-pointed, free of bad thoughts,
And wisdom decides what truth really is.
Compassion's a kind of high intelligence
Mixed deep with a love for all living kind.

Giving brings wealth, a good world comes from ethics;
Patience brings beauty, eminence comes from effort.
Concentration brings peace, and from wisdom comes freedom;
Compassion achieves everything we all wish for.

A person who takes all seven of these
And perfects them together will reach
That place of inconceivable knowledge,
No less than the world's protector.

by Nagarjuna, ±200 AD

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan

even though waves appear to be separate, they are but transient pulses of one and the same ocean

waves are only an appearance is what is true in the depths
thats each wave is different and unique is true on the surface

Are you looking for yourself when you attempt to add more to who you
are?

Eckhart Tolle

We are one.
Because we are more than one.

Let your intellect serve your consciousness instead of govern it.
When you follow intuiton you live life, when you follow mind alone,
life lives you.

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into
enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a
home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Melody Beattie

It is our duty—as men and women—to behave as though limits to our
ability do not exist.
We are collaborators in creation of the Universe.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Express your free will without infringing the free will of others.

Every one of you has a strong hold in the field of polarity. Every one
of you believes something is right or something is wrong. It is so
interesting to watch your news now, because the fight has gone on so
long that no one can even re-member what the original argument was all
about. So much fear has been created intentionally to dissuade all of
the information on planet Earth that you are all in danger of losing
your grip on reality, because you are believing and buying into the
fear. Enough! You can see what is happening. There are no more secrets
on planet Earth. Trust your heart. Do not allow yourself to get
wrapped up in fear, for that is a luxury you can no longer enjoy…no
longer afford. It is time to get serious about what you wish to do on
this planet. It is time to know that you have the power to create your
reality. It does not matter where you are in this ripple, what is
taking place with planet Earth, what is happening with your
relationships, your job, your home life, or your work life. You have
an opportunity to put yourself at the pinnacle, and to actually do
what you came here to do.

The Soul of Business in the New Energy

You have a challenge in the way you define business so far, so let us
speak first of the challenge because each person who makes up one of
these collectives that you call business has a soul. The overall
corporation whether it is made up of one person, five people or 500
makes no difference, for that company has a soul because it has an
energy that acts as one. The moment you identify that place in the
world, you can change the whole prospect of the company from the top
down…all the way. What we are telling you is that companies that have
only been in business for the purpose of making money will no longer
be able to do that, because you are finding out it is an empty shell.
There is no soul there. In the future we see a time when in order for
governments to issue a permit for starting a business, it will also
require that the company has a consciousness and that the company will
do the best for humanity even if it is against their own profit. The
company will bear the same responsibility that each and every one of
you has as you walk down the street and past other people. That has
not happened at this point on planet Earth. Now is the time to
consider what you can do at your individual level wherever you work,
whatever companies you own, or in whatever structures whether it is
government or religion. These are the collectives of humans that will
have to evolve very quickly.

We leave you with three little reminders. Treat each other with the greatest respect you have. Nurture one another and empower each other every chance you get. Play well together.

"Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head.
Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to
make them alive, but I'm just a fucked-up girl who is looking for my
own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours."

Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

the best brands are the brands that are themselves the best

Be the truth you are.
Give yourself fully to what is inside of you,
and respond to the world from that place.
You will not need categories;
you will only need truth of connection with deep self.
That is the way to discern.
Give yourself your own trust.
Trust yourself deeply.

"Do not believe in what you have heard; do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations; do not believe anything because it is rumored and spoken of by many; do not believe merely because the written statements of some old sage are produced; do not believe in conjectures; do not believe in that as a truth to which you have become attached by habit; do not believe merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. After observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

Gautama Buddha

Extraordinary six year old girl writes hundreds of notes to her mum and dad in the months before she dies.
Her parents found the notes between books, in drawers, everywhere.... Notes Left Behind

The Uniqueness of Humans by Professor Robert Sapolsky.
"The less forgivable the act, the more it must be forgiven, the less lovable the person, the more he or she must be loved..."

Mr Newman, founder of Newman's Own.

“The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.”

balance: bring inspiration in your actions and action in your dreams

free translation from presentation Paul de Blot (in dutch)
http://vimeo.com/7584175

men wanted for hazardous journey.

low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness.

safe return doubtful.

honour and recognition in event of success.

Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer (1874-1922)

(The advertisement above, placed in a London newspaper in 1912,
inspired nearly 5,000 replies.)

Conquer the angry man by love. 
Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. 
Conquer the miser with generosity. 
Conquer the liar with truth. 

The Dhammapada

If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your
heart, I could really see you.

David Brandon

The greatest achievement is selflessness. 
The greatest worth is self-mastery. 
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. 
The greatest precept is continual awareness. 
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. 
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. 
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. 
The greatest generosity is non-attachment. 
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. 
The greatest patience is humility. 
The greatest effort is not concerned with results. 
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. 
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Atisha

All experience is preceded by mind,
led by mind,
made by mind.
Speak or act with a corrupted mind,
and suffering follows
As the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox.

All experience is preceded by mind,
Led by mind,
Made by mind.
Speak or act with a peaceful mind,
and happiness follows
Like a never-departing shadow

From Dhammapada

let life happen to you
life is in the right, always

Rilke

Experience is not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens to you.

Alders Huxley

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail,
a light that will not go out, no matter how dark the World becomes.

Leo Tolstoy

To be trusting means you are fundamentally free from doubt about your goodness and about the goodness of others

being kind gets you further than being right

Great Spirit, 

Whose voice I hear in the winds 

And whose breath gives life to all in the world 

Hear me, I a small and I am weak and 

I need your strength and your wisdom 

Let me walk in beauty and let my eyes ever 

Behold the red and purple sunsets 

That you have created with me 

Make my hands respect the things you have made 

And my ears sharp to hear your voice and your words 

Let me learn the lessons that you have hidden 

Under every rock and leaf 

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother 

But to fight my greatest enemy, Myself ! 

Make me always ready to come to you with 

Clean hands and straight eyes 

So that when my life fades as the fading sunset 

My Spirit can come to you without shame.

Native American Prayer

I am the human becoming
Help me become

let the will to win be bigger than the fear to lose

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Larry Bird

"All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we've been waiting for."

Hopi Indian Elder

"when you know yourself, then you will know that you are of the flesh
of the living Father.
but if you know yourself not, then you live in poverty and that
poverty is you."

gospel of Thomas

if the means do not have the same character as the goal, it will never
be reached

Eckhart Tolle

bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity

do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there, I do not sleep

I am a thousand winds that blow

I am the diamond glints on snow

I am the sunlight on ripened grain

I am the gentle autumn rain

when you awaken in the morning's hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

of quiet birds in circled flight

I am the soft stars that shine at night

do not stand at my grave and cry

I am not there, I did not die

Poem on a gravestone

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But
to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate
more terrible than dying.

Jehane La Percell - Joan of Arc

it's hard work being a control freak

you laugh at me because I'm different

I laugh at you because you're all the same

bumper-sticker

The greatest human disease of all is insecurity.

Freedom is another word for nothing-left-to-loose.

than you David Icke

you can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

abraham lincoln

we are falling into a beautiful place
stay close
stay close to me

When we look more deeply, it becomes clear that there is no "thing" called "rainbow" apart from the particular conditions of air and moisture and light.

(unknown)

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.

It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.

I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

Stream of Life
by Rabindranath Tagore

you don't have to find your life's purpose.
it is already here.
simply be.
aware of this moment.
it will tell you all you need to know.

if you bring forth what is within you,
what you bring forth will save you.

if you do not bring forth what is within you,
what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

dead sea scrolls

disasters.

In Greek:
dis (away)
astres (the stars)

In Indonesian language, the word for leader is "pemimpin".
This means "the one who has a dream."

Knowledge and achievements hardly matter if we have not yet achieved to know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

Love is never alone
Love is always crowded
Love is the shared self

We cannot own our love
And we cannot teach our love

The longest breath of love
is the shortest distance to heaven

The deepest life is love
The deepest love is an embrace

Love is not rest
Love is peace
Love is the purpose

written by Akiane at age 11

I unwrap my thoughts
and for the first time I see
they are ours, not mine

het is zo raar
dat je niet meer wilde weten hoe het echt zat
vanaf het moment dat je het hoorde
toen was het ineens onwaar
ik wist niet wat ik moest zeggen want
je bent altijd zo sterk geweest

dat zou je ook weer worden zei je
morgen
zou je weer gaan fietsen
terwijl er een pistool onder je kussen lag
niet meer in jouw handen, die in de mijne
zo warm en zacht

je blik vol ongeloof door het raam
waar je pas net door heen keek
vanuit wat pas net jouw kamer was
met een nieuwe vloer
nieuwe kasten
en een nieuw ziekenhuisbed

habla con ella
speelde ik die weken
en ik dacht aan dat ik met jou zo goed kon praten

toen kreeg je sproetjes in je lijf
en viel ik stil

het is zo vreemd, het einde
ik wilde nooit weten hoe het zou zijn
en toen het begon wist ik
ik kan alleen maar voelen
dat je zo lief bent en ik van je hou

alle maskers
maniertjes
mooi zijn ze

jij ook
daaronder

Er is geen begin.
Er is geen einde.
Niet aan mijn verhaal, of aan dat van jou.
Er zijn alleen momenten, aaneenschakelingen van momenten.
Momenten van groei, momenten van afbraak, van licht, van donker, van leven, van dood.
Momenten van angst en momenten van liefde.
Alles is angst en liefde.
Maar dat weet ik nu nog niet.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Marianne Williamson (thank you N.)

the mirror of my face
subtle smile and cheeky eyes
I look and see myself
in love and in disguise

I think of where we went
and how we made no sense
I chuckle while I wash
my hands in innocence

you are not what you do
you become what you have done

success depends on how well we relate to everything around us

the awareness and realization of connection with all beings and elements around us is what gives pure joy.
deep inside, we know it, we feel it, we understand it.
because it's true.

it so true, that we often fear it, we fear this connection with our true selves, because embracing the thruth means to open up ourselves, to show ourselves and to be vulnerable.

instead of weapons of mass destruction,
it is time to unleash weapons of mass creation

our true divinity is in our ability to create,
armed with the understanding of the symbiotic connections of life,
while being guided by the emergent nature of reality,
their is nothing we cannot accomplish

Peter Joseph

our lives, our past and our future are tied to the sun, the moon and the stars...
we humans have seen the atoms which constitutes all of nature and the forces that sculpted this work... and we, who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, have begun to wonder about origins... star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms, contemplating the evolution of nature, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet earth... our loyalties are to the species and to the planet.

our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring.
we are one species.
we are star stuff harvesting star light.

Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 - 1968

it is what it is, when it is

buddhist saying

response
-able

trust a person who's looking for truth,
not the one that says he found it
the truth is so far beyond our understanding we will never really know

wisdom tells me I am nothing
love tells me I am everything
between the two my life flows

Nisargadatta Maharaj

people that are fearless are attractive
you want to stay close to them, out of curiosity and excitement
they might take you places you wouldn't have gone on your own

it's like being in love
you know it, because you feel it, not because you understand it

ik geef je een woord
je weet niet wat het betekent
althans, niet precies
al weet ik dat niet
als ik het zeg is het zo waar
zo waardevol maar
niet meer
als jij het hoort

the only truth is that you are
think, speak, do or not
it doesn't matter
you are
receiving and giving
responding, reacting
creating
a human being
the potency of everything

the moments you called
the things you asked
and the conversations we had
I
although
they may not have been about what was said
miss them

the fact
that you were born
that you exist as a unique individual
gives you not only the right, but also the obligation
to yourself, to be yourself and to express who you are

lichte prikkelingen
golfjes
zachtjes
momenten
woordjes
fluisterend

gaan ze

anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.
vertigo is not the fear of falling.
it is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us.
it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

the universe is infinitely big
particles infinitely small
it's beyond comprehension
we are right in centre of infinity
not understanding it

every day
every moment
every decision you make
ask yourself:
do I do what I do out of love
or out of fear?

be honest
be conscious
if your choice comes out of fear
ask yourself:
what would I have chosen
out of love?

is de waan zinnig
omdat de werkelijkheid
ons gek maakt?

I had to read it in a book
somehow
to really understand
that when you love someone it's love you feel
but when loved by someone else
you feel a thing called gratitude
it almost feels like love

If the first world flees into Second Life, where should the third world go?

the result of communication is a combination of
the one that is speaking,
the one that is spoken to
and the subject that is spoken about.

communicate with love,
with awareness of yourself and the one you're speaking to
and in truth about what you are speaking about.

in my hand on your chest and in every
word and thought
I mean to be here sincerely
out of want not need nor guilt
accepting your invitation
(in full honesty)
to be completely me

You can go into a pitch-dark room full of evil, full of darkness and light a little candle.
And instantly the darkness flees.
But you can't do the opposite.
You can't go into a well-lit room full of truth, wisdom, righteousness, joy, health and harmony with the universal power. You can't take any amount of darkness and go into this well-lit room and have any effect whatsoever.

Source:
a video-presentation by a very inspiring person who's name is unknown to me

How one person can make a difference... it is only important that you personally learn to conquer your innermost fears and learn to love. When you see your fears for what they are and master your emotions, then you will truly be free and your talents, your energy and your power can and will be of maximum contribution.

Living is nothing more than polishing the vessel that is your body until your beautiful self shines through. Your gift to the world is you.

ik wil zo graag dat jij vertelt hoe het moet
en dat ik je geloof
diep van binnen
en denk
het is goed dat jij het weet, echt
en ik niet

ik wou dat je kon zien
dat z'n haar nu blond is
en we stiekem lachen
als de buurvrouw haar man voor lamlul uitmaakt
terwijl de hele straat weet
dat zij de lamtrut is

ik wou dat je kon zien
hoe de eerste sneeuw ontvangen wordt
de verbazing als de vlokjes
smelten in z'n hand

ik wou dat je kon zien
hoe lang we doen alsof we slapen
hoe groot het bed is
het had echt makkelijk gepast

ik wou dat je kon zien
waar de lievelingspanda ligt
die wij al weken zoeken
die van de eerste dag
hoe mijn zout soms in zijn ogen prikt
en hij nooit zal kunnen rekenen
omdat ik 'm niet wil vertellen
dat 2 en 3 niet hetzelfde zijn

ik weet dat wij nog net zagen
want ik keek naar jou
hoe hij voor t eerst z'n ogen opende
en jij ze voor altijd sloot

this is how you feel
you're still
not responding the little messages
unconditioned... innocent these packages
of optimism making noise
laughing, shouting, banging
their heads against your inner skin
please let them in

Nothing that could ever happen to you,
could be as good, as precious, as who you are.

(derived from a buddhist text)

I fell in love today.
I'll fall in love again tomorrow.