Awakening is a process
This is becoming more and more clear to me nowadays. I used to feel that (spiritual) awakening would be a moment. A moment of waking up, and then you are awake, just like in the mornings. However, the answer is right there in the word: awakenING. It’s a continuous process, not an event. This means […]
Silence & Sharing
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Opportunities for silence
What if intensity is just the ideal circumstance for creating opportunities for cultivating silence within ourselves? What if intense situations actually only exist to challenge us to strive for silence? The Wanderer puts it best in their song Aren’t you meant to fly; “We chain ourselves to free ourselves.” What if that is not something […]
No opinion
I don’t really have an opinion about most things. Not anymore. However, a lot of times, you would not be able to tell if you heard me talk. Quite the opposite. It looks like I am incredibly opinionated about a lot of topics. Through introspection and observing my thoughts and feelings… I am realizing that […]
The only choice we actually have
Is non-identification the only thing we can try to “do”? Gurdjieff said that man cannot do. That we are basically machines, and everything we “do” is just stuff that happens to us. Looking at my own inner world, this is definitely – experientially – true for me as well. Questioning any behavior, thought, or emotion […]
Real but not true
Two words that seem to mean the same thing on the surface, but for me, however, they have come to mean two different things. Something being real doesn’t necessarily mean that it is also true. Or, as Peter Crone puts it so eloquently, “Things that seem real can still be based on untruths.” My emotions […]
Exploring Silence
Explore our inner silence together with a meditative, silent walk along the peaceful beach on the dijk between Lelystad and Enkhuizen.