… the taste of respect

Purplerays

“Once you figure out
what respect tastes like,
it tastes better than attention”

~ Pink

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Take time, look around at the beauty of nature

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Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment, to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

~ Kent Nerburn

Take time, look around at the beauty of nature

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Neem de tijd, kijk rond in de schoonheid van de natuur

Have the courage to face the light of your own Being.

Our time on earth is very limited. Before we actually realise it, we and our children have grown up and had to let so many things pass us by.

How many times have we let ourselves be intimidated by others, and have outside influences steered our lives in a direction that was not always best for us?

For many of us, the realisation to follow our own self does come a bit late. But we must realise that it is never too late to follow one’s own way.

Dutch translation / Nederlandse vertaling Heb de moed om het licht van je eigen wezen onder ogen te zien

Purplerays

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.”

~Steve Jobs~

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Being what will give a good admiration in this world

 

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Be what will give you good admiration in this world.
Think as if you are a winner
and that you can complete
and be inspirationally great!
~  unknown

 

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

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A new year has once again presented itself.
From what has gone before, it is best to remember only the good.
But for this year, we must not forget to plan,
for if you fail to plan
you will certainly not succeed in what you would like to achieve.

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Heartily wishing you a happy 2023!

 

Fear of being alone

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Most traffic stems from the fear of being alone.
If man managed to resign himself to being alone,
the grass would grow between the paving stones.
~ Godfrey Bomans
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Loneliness a silent storm

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Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches.
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Slower pace and restfulness of this week between Christmas and New Year

Looking from the window from the flat of one of the children in Frankfurt, I notice the quite opposite street with the university building, not many people passing by. At home in Belgium, even living in the countryside, we always have a lot of noise, much more than here in this big German financial city and much more than when I lived in London.

The 24th until the 26th we had one family gathering after the other. Having very good food, having eaten more than we should have done, there was also the business of all chatting and laughing.

Today there were actually not that many people in the streets and shops of Frankfurt city, where the sales were trying to entice people to spend some money anyway.

After the busy, noisy celebration of Christmas, the slower pace and restfulness of this week, between Christmas and New Year’s is for many somehow refreshing.

These days, perhaps many of us shall not follow so much the news events and shall let the world pass the family places. The calmness may come over us. Now we also can think of the man who came to earth so many centuries ago. He preached about the way we better should live. But not so many people wanted or want to listen to him. There were even several people who wanted him dead, and managed to have him killed as a murderer, hanged at the wooden stake.

Several Christians remembered, a few days ago, the birth of that Nazarene man, who shall bring peace to us all. For many, this holiday season is the special occasion that they think of the one who can give peace in our hearts and who can bring peace to the world. Would it be not nice if we could enjoy true peace? Also, being at peace would already be nice. Finding a serene, relaxing, time with no worries. How many of us would not love to get away from the trials and tribulations of everyday life. We should know, we do have to find first peace and love in our own hearts, before we can find peace outside ourselves.

The world is still waiting for that moment of ‘eternal peace’, but for sure it shall come one day.

Finding peace is what most of us would like to do. There is a peace and rest available to us that is deep enough to remain even in the most hectic times, and secure enough to withstand the most severe troubles.

The state we are living in, is man’s own fault. We also have our past, that we should dare to put away and forget about it all. That Nazarene master teacher, some 2 000 years ago, gave us a good example of how to live, but not many want to follow his teachings. In case already all those who call themselves Christian would keep to those teachings of Christ, we would already have a much better world.

Here on the European continent, we have seen many wars, where both fighting parties prayed that God would be at their side and help them to conquer the enemy. Instead of wondering if God would not disagree with them fighting. Some thought after World War II the fighting is now done over, but they are mistaken. The Yugoslavian wars and the recent invasion of Ukraine have proven how fragile peace in our region is.

Even in a part of the world that has been free from open war for a couple of generations, we have increased the security measures and still are not sure, there will be no invasions by foreign troops. We would love to see the space around us free of any danger of intrusion, terrorism, or fear for something bad to happen.

Oh, so often, people point their fingers at another. So many times we do hear that the trouble or fight is there, because of the other. But on the other hand, there are also many who do not believe enough in themselves and are afraid of the other. Such a negative attitude for themselves means that they cannot find peace in themselves. Finding inner peace is very important and necessary to be able to spread peace to others. In these dark days at the end of the year, let’s consider how we may or may not even have disrupted the peace of others, and how we can correct mistakes we have made.

We personally will not be able to do much about the war raging in Ukraine. But we can avoid any small ‘war’ around us and if we see resentment somewhere and find iniquity, we can make an attempt and take a measure to put an end to it.

For many Jews, Jeshuaists and Christians the last few days have been a “time of light”. By more than one miracle God has provided light in the world, and that light we should also show to others around us. Be it Chanukah or Christmas, when we put on the many candles or electric lights, it should be a sign we want to let others know about that light that can shine, because it is the Elohim Who provides the possibility. Both festivals are no holidays for seriousness, but for joy and glory.
And that means spreading light and joy.

These days we best meditate on whatever is honourable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is good, and whatever is virtuous and praiseworthy.  We all have a Book of books offered to us in which we can find the way to the truth and the way to inner but also outer peace. That book should be our guide and give our hope for that peace that shall come, because all promises made in that book have or shall come true.

 

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Preceding

What Are You Seeking?

We all have to have dreams

Christians at War? Christians using violence?

How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace

High time to show the way to peace

As always God has a Plan

Window 190 – The door to our truth, can only be opened from within

True happiness, love and perfection

Being a Light in the World Award

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Additional reading

1. Just an Ordinary Day
2. Identity Crisis By millennials
3. Honest-hearted people are losing faith in humanity and humanity losing faith in God
4. Spark Understanding, Stitch Connections
5. Facilitations of science and loss of peace of mindA new decade, To open the eyes to get a right view
6. Man’s own fault and the choice to flee from fear
7. How much does man wants to be dependent on a Divine Creator?
8. All I want is peace!!!
9. Running away from the past
10. Looking forward to the return of Jesus
11. Give your tears to God
12. Cry out to Yahweh
13. In the night His song shall be with me
14. Fullness of summer and abundance of harvest found in the satisfying plenitude of life in Christ
15. Will There Ever be Peace on Earth?
16. Look It Squarely In The Eye, And Say….
17. Israel, Fitting the Plan when people allow it
18. Memorizing wonderfully 48 John 16:33 That you may have peace
19. Looking for True Spirituality 8 Measuring Up
20. Not daring to show a connection
21. The quest for peace and order
22. Peace not the absence of disturbance
23. Poetry of Peace
24. Today’s thought “The breastplate of faith” (November 18)
25. Today’s thought “What sorrow awaits rebellious people” (December 17)
26. When examining ourselves
27. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness
28. Come ye yourselves apart … and rest awhile (Mark 6:31)
29. Ambassadors showing hope and a world of peace
30. Being comforted by the Most High and His familyThe World framed by the Word of God
31. Memorizing wonderfully 48 John 16:33 That you may have peace
32. Sings of the times – Difficult moments at the borders of Europe
33. Scripture words written for our learning, given by inspiration of God for edification
34. Not studying an abstract and arcane text of the ancient world
35. Only once and with consequences
36. Christian in Christendom or in Christianity
37. Back from gone #3 Giving worries to God and believing in His promises
38. Humbleness
39. Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark
40. Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

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Related

1. Christmas at grandma’s
2. Safe Space
3. Peace
4. Peace Prevails
5. Peace and Purpose in A Psalm
6. Finding Peace
7. Darkness
8. Happiness
9. The Peace of the Lord – Sermon for December 29, 2013
10. Strive to Enter God’s Rest – Sermon on Hebrews 4:9-13 (Feb 23/24, 2014)
11. Forgive Us As We Forgive Others – Midweek Sermon (April 9, 2014)
12. Peace Be With You – Sermon for Quasimodo Geniti (April 27th/28, 2014)
13. Keep Away From Mutual Enmity
14. Useful Ways of Leading a Happy Life – Imam As-Sa’dee
15. Guidelines with regard to Criticizing Individuals and Groups – Shaikh Rabee’
16. Christmas Tidings
17. Safe Space
18. Embrace doing nothing.
19. Live Lightly and Peacefully
20. EGW Inspirational Quotes
21. Daily Scripture Series – Dec. 28th
22. Living in the Faith
23. Ukraine latest: Kremlin rules out peace plan that does not recognize annexed regions
24. Give Yourself Permission to Change
25. Wednesday Blessings

Going to the abundance of Christmas

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For many, tonight enters a period of cozying up together
and celebrating Christmas.
On these days of abundance in our regions, let us
the shortages for many in areas far from us
not forget.

 

The opened door♥️

Try to get it!

The opened door
Not like all opened doors
It welcomes a person with despair
And also those who need care
It is opened all day long
Its owner is Merciful though strong
Let’s pass together through his door
We will receive forgiveness and more
The eternal peace is also there
You can see Nothing But pure air
Cause his mercy is overwhelming
To each one who is Now coming
We will enjoy that harmless light
That can be seen by no eyes
But only needs a clear sight
Sohair
Allah says
وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَوْ كَانَ خَيْرًا مَا سَبَقُونَا إِلَيْهِ ۚ وَإِذْ لَمْ يَهْتَدُوا بِهِ فَسَيَقُولُونَ هَٰذَا إِفْكٌ قَدِيمٌ
The Unbelievers say of those who believe: “If (this Message) were a good thing, (such men) would not have gone to it first, before us!” And seeing that they guide not themselves thereby, they will say, “this is an…

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Coming to the close of 2022: Looking from the top of the mountain

Slowly but surely we are coming to the close of 2022, a year which could have started nicely, but where so many dreams of a good year were crushed even before it went good on its way.

It was a year when a Jewish Young Professional “JYP” felt as though she was standing at the top of an ornate staircase,

looking down at what might have been a grand ballroom of a world, only the world is so broken, it is difficult to imagine the world as a place of celebrations and parties.

In a way, this is nothing new. The heartbeat of the world has always been a pulsing contrast of peaks and valleys between the “haves” and “have nots”.
It is rarer for the fortunate ones at the top to notice those in the lows brightly illuminated on the heart rate monitor.
But at the same time, there has been a massive change.
Hundreds dead.
Millions of refugees fleeing their homes.
The threat of nuclear.
All for an utterly pointless, needless war.
A pillar of world stability feels like it has been removed
and everything is off-kilter.

{At The Top Of, What, Exactly?}

This year, for several moments the world was on the brink of a new world war, that could be the first serious nuclear world war.

Jewish Young Professional “JYP was one moment at the top of the mountain, but she had to admit

it is impossible not to feel the bitter, chilly wind. {At The Top Of, What, Exactly?}

Joseph Farquharson ‘Cauld Blaws the Wind Frae East to West’ (1888). From dVerse

It’s not about what you’re supposed to be

Life is not about what should be.
It is what it is.
How you handle it yourself makes all the difference.

(V. Satir)

Ruins of Time 🪄

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On Time Can One Trust?

Under the spell of wanderlust,
A traveller embarked, thereon commenced the quest… On time can one trust?

Swirled round the globe!
Glided through the howling gales,
Amidst melancholic silence and melodious wails.
Under the spell of wanderlust,
Probing, if on time one can trust.

Exhausted of the expedition landed at the New land,
There stood a mighty woman with a torch in her hand.
Her name “Mother of Exiles”,
They flaunt her as an icon of their virtuous profile.
This show has been going on since a long while.

She had promised to embrace the huddled masses longing to breath free and let them what they yearned to be.
The flame of the torch is imprisoned lighting yet gloomier than brightening.

They boast themselves as champions of liberty,
Maybe, they don’t know that ideals need to be cherished in the time’s race to infinity.

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Everything on Earth has a purpose…

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Dutch translation / Nederlandse vertaling: Alles op aarde heeft een doel…

Preceding

Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

Existence in the non-existent and non-existence in the existence

Our existence, the world showing up for us and holding up a mirror

I and Thou

In your own heart or outside of it

Modern Living

There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who he is.

Martin Heidegger Quotes

Purplerays

“Everything on Earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.”

Morning Dove

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Permacrisis a permanent part of the human condition

Permacrisis = caught by Collins Dictionaries’ word of the year, defined as “an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events”.

Permacrisis is not something new, but a permanent part of the human condition.
War, disease, financial disaster – these are not phenomena from the distant past or faraway countries of which we know little.
They have been with us, even here in the UK, all along.
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it is not because the world has changed, but because we have.
Rather than seeing change, disruption and unexpected events for what they are, part of life, to which we must adapt,
we have come to think that they cannot, or should not, happen here.
Nothing really bad should happen in Britain. If it does, the Government should protect us.
Normal life should be smooth, unchallenging, and undisrupted.The problem is that, when we begin to think like this, we stop being resilient and start to become fragile. Great world events and the changes they bring seem abnormal, not part of the routine of human existence.
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Every risk looms large and the world seems more dangerous than ever.
Then begins a vicious circle in which government must shield us from more and more difficulties.
We start in a world where the state bails out banks but end in one where it caps energy prices, subsidises people to go to work, and restricts our behaviour for our own good – and who knows what next.~ David Frost – The real permacrisis is in Western civilisation

History of dreaming, and connection with spirit #3

Kone, Krusos, Kronos

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

― C.G. Jung.

First let me say, there’s all sort of dreams, provoked by so many reasons, from you being worry about something, that its bothering you, to unfulfilled wish desires, or you just had too much to eat for diner, and have a nightmare, but one thing I will tell you, the dreams you have are a reflection of who you are, and of course your Spiritual side, or the lack of it, will show up, in your dreams.

You would not have Joseph’s kind of dreams, if you are not a Spiritual person, first, because if you are not interested in such thing, as a Spiritual life, it’s like asking a vicious, and evil person, to have good thoughts, and be merciful, it doesn’t…

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Dream interpretation an it’s problems #2

Kone, Krusos, Kronos

The first problem with dreams it’s not how to interpret them, that comes later, the first one it’s to remember them!

It’s well known, that as we age we forget everything specially our short memory, I am at that stage, where I can spend many minutes going crazy looking for something I just put down, somewhere, and cannot figure where?

Despite being methodical, as I age it seems to go with the territory, my dear mother when I was young used to go crazy trying to figure out where she left this or that, in my naivety as a child couldn’t figure out how mother could forget so easily such things?

Well, now I know!

Hardly a day go through, when something so simple as putting something away, can disappear, like if by magic!

Mother wherever you may be, please forgive me! It seems I am even worst than you…

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Our Sense of Belonging

In social psychology, the need to belong is linked to being socially accepted. The need for love and belonging even lie at the center of the Maslow’s Hierarchy as part of social needs. This is why many psychologists today curiously study the concept of “groups”.

All of us enjoy being a part of something – a community of people who understand us, include us, and accept us. And it’s interesting because nearly all human activities like working, playing, and learning occur in groups.

I know whenever I was a new kid at school, I loved connecting with other new kids joining in that year. At my most recent high school, we formed a lovely group sharing that one thing in common. Being a new kid can be an isolating and lonely endeavour. “Am I the only one who feels this way?” Finding myself in the company of others wrestling…

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Optimism & morality of hope

A morality of hope lives in the belief that we can change the world for the better,
and without certain theological beliefs it is hard to see where hope could come from, if not from optimism.
Optimism and hope are not the same.
Optimism is the belief that the world is changing for the better;
hope is the belief that, together, we can make the world better.
Optimism is a passive virtue, hope an active one.It needs no courage to be an optimist,
but it takes a great deal of courage to hope.The Hebrew Bible is not an optimistic book.
It is, however, one of the great literatures of hope.

~ Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, from his book, To Heal a Fractured World

Human experience maintained in a fragile existence

… our human experience continues to be maintained in such a fragile existence that could end at any moment and without notice.
Every waking moment we are embarking upon the unknown.
Whether or not we are even conscious of our own living
and dying is another individual matter,
whether or not to believe there might be a presence in an afterlife,
or simply presume that whatever is, just is,
without ever a question about what awaits us on the other side.
~ Thoughts On Living

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