"Wie zijn schaduw en zijn licht tegelijkertijd waarneemt, ziet zichzelf van twee kanten en komt dus in het midden."

– Carl Jung

#themiddleroad

“De hoeksteen van de gehele structuur van het spirituele en fysieke universum is Ritmische Evenwichtige Uitwisseling tussen alle tegenstellingen.”

– Walter Russell

Filmptip van Heidi Gundel:

“La Tresse / The Braid is de verfilming van het gelijknamige boek van Laetitia Colombani. Ik zag de film gisteren en denk dat het een van de mooiste films is die ik in de afgelopen jaren zag.

Het gaat over sterke vrouwen en over het pad dat we lopen, niet het doel dat we behalen. Zo vaak zijn we gericht op het behalen van een -idealistisch- doel, zonder werkelijk te beseffen dat het lopen van het pad juist het doel kan zijn. Dat dáár de ware kracht ligt.

Het vraagt om werkelijke moed en verzachting om de prestatie los te laten, in het moment te leven en daar tot zelfacceptatie en zelfliefde te komen.
Daar is te vinden wat we eigenlijk nastreven.

Dit is voor alle vrouwen die te streng zijn voor zichzelf en geëerd mogen worden om de bergen die ze beklimmen, zonder te weten of ze ooit die top gaan bereiken.”


La Tresse

India. Smita is een onaantastbare. Ze droomt ervan haar dochter uit haar erbarmelijke toestand te zien ontsnappen en naar school te gaan.

Italië. Giulia werkt in de werkplaats van haar vader. Als hij een ongeluk krijgt, ontdekt ze dat het familiebedrijf geruïneerd is.

Canada. Sarah, een gerenommeerd advocaat, wordt gepromoveerd tot hoofd van haar kantoor als ze hoort dat ze ziek is.

Drie levens, drie vrouwen, drie continenten. Drie veldslagen om te vechten. Hoewel ze elkaar niet kennen, zijn Smita, Giulia en Sarah met elkaar verbonden zonder het te weten, door wat het meest intieme en meest bijzondere aan hen is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AsbS9KGk4I

“I once asked a very successful woman to share her secret with me. She smiled and said to me..
‘I started succeeding when I started leaving small fights for small fighters.
I stopped fighting those who gossiped about me...
I stopped fighting with my in laws...
I stopped fighting for attention...
I stopped fighting to meet peoples’ expectation of me...
I stopped fighting for my rights with inconsiderate people..
I stopped fighting to please everyone...
I stopped fighting to prove they were wrong about me....
I left such fights for those who have nothing else to fight...
And I started fighting for
my vision,
my dreams,
my ideas and
my destiny.
The day I gave up on small fights is the day I started becoming successful & so much more content.’
Some fights are not worth your time.....
Choose what you fight for wisely.”

Source: unknown


#krachtvandeherhaling

1.8 million watching on X alone (3,2 million and counting now). Never in my wildest dreams did I envisage a speech as powerful and emotional as that. No teleprompter in sight, THAT was from the heart and intellect.
Roberts tears for the children were all our tears, willing to go against his closest partners wishes, and his family’s denouncements to fight for what he believes is worth his last ten years of meaningful career. He meant EVERY word of that.
Freedom of speech, ending war, taking on the corrupt food and pharmaceutical industries is worth his personal differences with Donald Trump to create what he called a unity party. He says he reached out to Kamala too but wasn’t granted any entrance to talks or even a phone call.
He talked of unity and the travesty of USA being bottom of the world’s table for childhood health.
He named causes and gave solutions.
As I understand it he is pulling out of places where his vote could create a democratic win by splitting the vote and staying on the ballot where his supporters can still mark a X without harming a Republican win.
He talked of the very real and BIG differences of opinion he has with Trump - his voice cracking with emotion and you could see this olive branch of unity was hard. But he also spoke of the areas where they agree, and for him three areas of agreement are key: stoping the war in Ukraine, improving children’s ill health and standing up for free speech.
Make America healthy again was said a few times.
Two stand out lines were “They don’t fear lies they fear the truth” and “we need to choose to love our kids more than we hate each other” .
THAT was one moment and a speech that will echo down the ages regards where democracy has failed, where control has strangled health and freedom and where a line in the sand was drawn.
1.8 million heard you Robert, the actual words and context not the in manipulated spun MSM lies that will undoubtedly follow.
We don’t care we heard it from you not them.
Seeds sown - he said this is a spiritual journey and he has prayed deeply on what to do - well done - truly bloody well done.
I would encourage you to watch the full speech - I did and am forever changed. Thank you Robert. Thank you 💜

Amanda Ellis

“What a strange thing we do to our young people in this culture and time.

We make them spend several years learning things that they often have no interest in, that they have not chosen and that they will in many cases never use again. We tell them that these things are vitally important.

Then we sit them in rows and make them write about the things they can remember for an intense few hours. We compare what they have written down with everyone else of the same age, and then we rank them.

We make them wait a couple of months and then we tell some that they are the successes, and others that they are the failures. We encourage them to hang their self-worth on how they performed. Newspapers publish pictures of the delighted, whilst the disappointed hide their heads in shame.

We tell them that these results will determine the rest of their lives – and then we set up systems that make this true. We provide fewer opportunities for those who did not succeed. Those who did well can take their pick of courses, whilst those who did not are made to take the same tests again and again, just to hammer it home.

We make sure that young people spend the majority of their adolescence focused on exams and under pressure. Every summer, they sit in rows and try to remember. Each year, they’re told that their whole future rests on this.

Many of them inevitably cave in under the pressure. They become anxious and depressed. They show signs of burnout by the age of 16. They lose their spark, and just go through the motions. Some of them retreat altogether.

Then we pathologise them, say that they need mental health treatment or to become more resilient. We send them for therapy or give them medication. We say that they are the problem, whilst the system carries on unchanged.

What if instead we stopped to think about what we are doing to our young people?

Adolescence is a time of opportunity and vulnerability. It’s a one-off stage of life. What if we asked ourselves, should our young people really spend these years on a conveyor belt of high stakes exams?

Imagine we allowed ourselves to look beyond this time and place, and to see just how strange this really is. What would we do then?”

- Dr Naomi Fischer

“Bohm vertelde tijdens zijn historische conversatie met Krishnamurti dat hij de etymologie van het woord ‘intelligentie’ heeft opgezocht en dat hij tot een verrassend inzicht was gekomen.

‘Intelligentie’ komt van het Latijn ‘interlegere’.’ Inter’ betekent ‘tussen’ en ‘legere’ betekent ‘lezen’.

‘Interlegere’ betekent dus ‘ertussen lezen’. Bohm vertaalt dat als ‘tussen de regels lezen’, waarop Krishnamurti bevestigt ‘ja, tussen de regels lezen.’

Met andere woorden: intelligentie is dat wat voorbij letterlijke woorden kan kijken, datgene wat weet dat er wel 100 andere mogelijke visies zijn op hetzelfde, dat geen enkele theorie altijd zaligmakend is.

Alleen intelligentie kan nuanceren, alleen intelligentie kan humor vatten...

Mensen die dingen letterlijk nemen en geen nuances of andere standpunten kunnen zien, zitten vast in het automatisch denken van de hersenen. Intelligentie is van het bewustzijn, niet van de hersenen...”

Jan Bommerez

“All growth is an internal decision. You cannot force growth in another, nor can you assume responsibility for what another person does or does not do.

Each and every person has their own soul agenda, their own team of helpers, and is masterful in creating the conditions that are essential for their own evolution and expansion. Sometimes that will involve the dark night of the soul, for it is often from the most painful experiences human beings will move from resistance to surrender, which immediately creates a shift which allows growth and expansion to occur.

Please understand that rescuing sends the message the person in question is not capable of taking care of themselves, while encouraging helps a person connect with their own innate power and wisdom.”

~ Shelley Young


#challenge #support #growth #power #wisdom #evolution

Dear friends,

I am busy writing my next book and I like it. A short contemplation today. You know it already: After Google/YouTube will have to testify under oath in court for suppressing content regarding the attack on Trump (and other undemocratic election manipulation), Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook (and more broadly, Meta) also came forward yesterday.

He was pressured by the Biden administration to censor critical voices during the COVID-19 crisis, and he suppressed critical/negative information about Biden, particularly regarding the story of Hunter Biden's laptop. He says he's sorry and that he won't do it again. I hope everyone realizes what this implies.

A spicy detail: Zuckerberg points to his fact-checkers, claiming they misjudged the situation, and he was guided by them. Fact-checkers and Digital First Responders—the Ministry of Truth from Orwell. We already knew that. Does Zuckerberg really just know this now?

Why is Zuckerberg coming out with all this now? Humans are complex beings and rarely know themselves why they do what they do, but in this case, the motives might be more straightforward.

Now that Tulsi Gabbard is joining the Trump camp, following in the footsteps of RFK Jr., Zuckerberg might be sensing the storm coming: a future Trump administration might launch an investigation into the massive manipulation and censorship that occurred both during election times and the virus panic.

So Zuckerberg is throwing the Biden administration under the bus. This is always the weak point of totalitarian structures: the psychological mechanisms like mass formation lead to such a deep impoverishment of human bonds, even among the totalitarian comrades, that they can't trust each other and mercilessly throw each other under the bus when the opportunity arises.

Of course, this doesn't only apply to the Democrats in America or the dominant narrative. We are all children of this atomized era, and in a way, it's not easy for any group or movement to keep the human connection truly human.

And the big question will be: in which direction will Trump, as a person, evolve under the influence of the enormous psychological forces acting upon him? Will he become more human and seize the opportunity he might get to truly create a more humane America, together with a few Democrats like Kennedy and Gabbard? Or will he slide into resentment and become more and more the monster he should be fighting?

Trump and Kennedy are finding each other now, something they never expected. But whether that also means they'll continue to align if they actually have to work together is another question. There are quite a few issues on which Trump and Kennedy hold radically different positions, I believe. The biggest challenge won't be winning the election; the biggest challenge will be governing in a truly humane way in times of the dehumanization and desouling of the social fabric.

One thing is certain: the coming months in the USA will be anything but boring.

@MattiasDesmet

Treffend bericht van Mattias! Toch zou ik her en der het woord human willen vervangen door humane, immers: niks menselijks is ons vreemd. 😉

NB: ik krijg er wat vragen over. Om meer specifiek te zijn: er staat een paar keer ‘human’ en dan ‘humane’. Die eerdere ‘human’ mag wat mij betreft ook ‘humane’ zijn; al het menselijke gedraag is immers menselijk (maar niet persé humaan).

Favourite person! ❤️

https://youtu.be/Dy4pS4gGTEE

Wie mij een beetje kent, weet dat ik me, zolang ik me kan heugen, bekommer om de aarde. Weet dat ik nooit heb begrepen waarom mensen hun eigen ‘nest’ bevuilen.

Sinds de coronatijd is daar een ander bewustzijn bij gekomen; de mate waarin het ene groepje mensen, het andere groepje mensen voor de gek houdt.

Je zal begrijpen dat het me raakt, om de essentie van wat ik geloof, hier in drie minuten terug te horen.. ♡


https://youtu.be/8O-ZM0RxG4g?feature=shared