April 2020

The 50 year old poet

Flowers are still growing,

birds are still singing

but a darkness has come

which will mean the end for some.

In just a short while

the world has lost its smile,

people forced into isolation

with the hope it may save their nation.

Politicians try to offer hope

to those finding it hard to cope,

mankind can be changed for good,

but only if the reality is understood.

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

A Window Of Wisdom

“When we are unable to face the truth of our own feelings, we will vent our emotional pain upon anyone that goes against what we are trying to control, due to the exhaustion of representing our self as the truth, we wish we could be.”

 True freedom can only be felt when we stop concealing our thoughts, desires, and beliefs, and stop pretending to be someone we are not, or pleasing others out of fear; for when our truth is spoken, our spirit emerges, and our fear becomes void, to which freedom of our true self takes flight.

~ WOW ~

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A dream you dream alone

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality”.
– John Lennon

 

 

 

Love, sleep and reality

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Verliefdheid, slaap en werkelijkheid

Ted Geisel, American writer and cartoonist, at work on a drawing of the grinch for “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Going on holiday is… silence in your head

An average Westerner lives in his head. From kindergarten until university he is indoctrinated with the idea that there is an answer to every question and a solution to every problem. In this way his need to understand and control keeps the illusion alive that we have a grip on our reality and have everything under control.

But nothing is further from the truth.

In his book ‘De Schaduw van de Verlichting” Eddy Van Tilt speaks about ‘the over-drive of rationality‘.Because we give our ratio absolute status , we have become estranged of that part of reality that is not rational and with which we have lost touch.

The psychologist Van Tilt asks :

” What happened that caused the heads of Westerners to become so hard and their hearts so weak?”

Because he is confronted with the pathological results of too much ego, the delusion of manipulability and rationalising.

The psychiatrist Mark Epstein reacts to this as follows :

‘our thinking mind is compulsive, because it does not want to forget or be forgotten and therefore always has something to do’.

That is why it will not be easy to ” let go of everything” on holiday.
Because as hungry and restless as our mind is preoccupied with the past and the future, it will need other kinds of stimuli, in order not to forget or be forgotten.

We can put our mind at rest.
In the first place by keeping our heart open, by simply observing what happens inside ourselves and by reconnecting with our body, our surroundings, and by accepting …to be moved. When we enter silence, we will experience “now” and  not so much hearing it, but rather feeling it or even better …. experiencing it.
 
To obtain this , it is not necessary to leave your ego or anything else behind, but to look past its borders.

‘By standing still we do not see new things, but we look at things in a different way’,

is what C.G. Jung concluded once.

Or how going on holiday is mainly… silence in your head and heart.

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Preceding:

Summerholiday season time to read the Bible

Holiday making and dreaming

Home-stayers and their to do list

Written by inspiration of God for our admonition, to whom it shall be imputed if they believe

Dutch version / Nederlandstalige versie: Vakantie is… stilte in je hoofd

Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, C.G. Jung, A.A. Brill, Ernest Jones, and Sándor Ferenczi posed at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Photograph first published in September 1909. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Additional reading:

1. Be still and listen
2. Control and change
3. Control your destiny or somebody else will
4. Malefactors becoming your master
5. Patience is the ability to count down before blasting off
6. He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger
7. Know Who goes with us and don’t try to control life
8. A Living Faith #7 Prayer
9. Praying is surrendering in all circumstances
10. Giving cogent reasons to young people why Christian faith is relevant to them

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Further reading:

1. Rationalisation
2. I’m proud of me
3. Day 300: Rationalising Not Buying Anything
4. Day 552 (or 1 Year, 6 Months, and 7 Days of Continuous Sobriety)
5. When We Shouldn’t – And Should – Argue from Authority
6. Hofstadterisms
7. Why imagination is great (and why many evangelicals don’t like it)
8. People focus on what they can see
9. An Artifact of Our Time
10. Are biases deviations from the mean?
11. Do we really live in the Age of Empathy?
12. Excellent. With musings on religion and mass extinctions.
13. Rationality as a Social Process
14. Illogical Rationality
15. Sam Harris’s War on Rationality
16. The Image of Objectivity
17. Looking at the world through the eyes of others
18. Relapse
19. Working toward a new paradigm
20. Does your brain know what’s best for you?
21. Effective Altruism: the global movement that combines your heart and your head
22. Animal rationality
23. Do irrational idiots exist?
24. The Grasshopper and the Ant – a story of economic rationality
25. Maybe Everyone Is Actually Super Rational!
26. Note: Misconceptions on Understanding
27. Too many decisions can be exhausting.
28. How to make the best decisions you can
29. Rationality over the long term
30. Desperate for a “Pause”
31. “Time to take out the trash”
32. It doesn’t always stand to reason

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• It’s Okay Not To Be Okay
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• Secrets of Psychotherapy: Ten Ways to Be More Happy (Pt. 2)
• Inside Inside Out, a review of sorts
• ‘The eyes may be wrong, but the psyche is right’
• Carl Jung on the “Mystic” and “Mysticism.”
• Tapping into God’s Strength by Waiting on Him
• Improving the world by improving the Faith