Als je alles denkt te weten

Geplaatst op 25 september, 2008 

Hoe intelligenter een mens is hoe meer hij God nodig heeft om hem te beschermen tegen de gedachte dat hij alles weet.

George Webb (Pima Indian)

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Bemoei je met je eigen zaken

Geplaatst op 22 september, 2008 

Anyone who interferes in the destiny of others will never discover his own.

Paulo Coelho in zijn boek The Alchemist

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Hoe wij onszelf ver-slaven

Geplaatst op 10 september, 2008 

A carefully elaborate ritual that the person tries to perform precisely, because he or she is afraid that – if any part is left out – everything will go wrong. The name of that ritual is Routine.

When we are young, we don’t take anything too seriously. But slowly, this set of daily rituals becomes solidified, and takes us over. Once things have begun to go along pretty much as we imagined they would, we don’t dare risk altering the ritual. We like to complain, but we are reassured by the fact that each day is more or less like every other. At least there is no unexpected danger.

That way, we are able to avoid any inner or outer growth, except for the kinds that are provided for within the ritual: so many children, such and such kind of promotion, this and that kind of financial success. When the ritual becomes consolidated, the person becomes a slave.

Citaat uit het boek “The Valkyries” van Paulo Coelho.

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What difference does it make?

Geplaatst op 25 augustus, 2008 

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Ghandi

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When one must take a position

Geplaatst op 25 augustus, 2008 

Cowardice asks the question – is it safe?
Expediency asks the question – is it politic?
Vanity asks the question – is it popular?
But conscience asks the question – is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.

Martin Luther King

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Never hear what other people think about you

Geplaatst op 28 juli, 2008 

I want to suggest that you never, never, never hear what other people think about you. I predict you’ll live longer, and you’ll enjoy life more if you never hear what people think about you. Never take it personally. The recommendation I have is to learn to connect empathically with any message coming at us from other people.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Ink it!

Geplaatst op 24 juli, 2008 

Don’t think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

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Gehoorzaamheid

Geplaatst op 21 juli, 2008 

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty” :

Howard Zinn

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