Poëzie & quotes

Ik kan mijn ogen sluiten
en niet meer zien.
Ik kan zelfs mijn ogen openen
en niet meer zien.

Het doet geen pijn.
Ik kan heel goed niets denken
en niets hebben en niets vragen
en niets zijn.

– Herman de Coninck, Ik kan mijn ogen sluiten

“Within you there is a sanctuary to which you can always return.
And this sanctuary is not outside of you, it is not bound by time and space.
It is not something that can be found in things, it is not something you can lose, and it is always there, waiting for you to discover it.
All that is required is that you seek it”

– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha


Nu

Ik adem niet, ik zing.
zelfs als ik zucht, klinkt het
per ongeluk alsof ik
een paar noten neurie
die me vannacht, terwijl
ik sliep, zijn voorgezongen.
Het is alsof de lucht
mijn deken is en ik
mijn hoofd het liefst
te rusten leg op het kussen
van mijn longen, de plek
waar ik mijn hartslag hoor
in vierkwartsmaat:
dat ik besta, dat ik besta.

Bart Moeyaert, uit: Gedichten voor gelukkige mensen

Quotes die doen denken

“Each day as you step onto the mat, make a decision to enjoy just where you are right now. Take a few  moments too, to  contemplate how fortunate you are to be practicing this wonderful art. If you are standing o n a yoga mat, and have the time to practice even fifteen minutes, you are a fortunate person”

– Donna Fahri – Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit

“When the practice is over, everyday life is waiting for you; don’t just jump right back into it – savor the quietness for a while. Whatever your next actions are, do them with mindfulness. Allow this heightened awareness to linger throughout the rest of your day. Notice the openness in your body as you move. Smile often and pause frequently. Take time to return to awareness; after all, this is what you were practicing – awareness. Enjoy it!”

– Bernie Clark – Excerpt from YinSights

“The power of yin yoga is time, not effort”

– Paul Grilley

“The practice of Yin & Yang Yoga helps us to learn about stillness in movement and the flow in stillness”

– Sarah Powers

Les petits soleils de chaque jour. Un sourire, un mot d’encouragement, un échange, un petit plaisir ou un grand, tout ce qui nous rend heureux, joyeux, vivants. Tous ces petits soleils qui illuminent nos journées, à côté desquels il ne faut surtout pas passer.

– Ondine Khayat, les petits soleis de chaque jour

“The greatest gift you can give someone is your time. When you give someone your time, you are giving a part of your life that you will never get back”

– Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“We have one mouth and two ears so that we can talk less and listen more … but you don’t have to use only your ears to listen. You can listen with your skin, you can listen with your eyes, you can listen with your heart. You can listen to the space around you, to the light, to a movement. What are you listening to?”

– Damien De Bastier

“We do not use the body to get into the pose
We use the pose to get into the body”

– Bernie Clark

“You learn meditation by doing exactly the kind of things that you got in trouble at school: looking out of the window and daydreaming, or closing your eyes and drifting off”

– Lorin Roche from Mediation Made easy

“Why do we have to listen to our hearts? the boy asked.
Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.
The Alchemist smiled”

– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist


We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.

We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.

We grow partially. We are relative.

We are mature in one realm, childish in another.

The past, present and future mingle and pull us backward, forward or fix us in the present

Anaïs Nin – The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947



“We need to come home to the temple of our senses. Our bodies know that they belong – to life, to spirit. It’s our minds that make our life so homeless”