“I never really watch football, but I’m shocked nevertheless”. With those words an elderly lady commenting on the death of Johan Cruijff yesterday, framed my exact same thoughts. I was 5 years old when Cruijff started playing professionally, and in my teens when he was at the height of his Dutch football career. I never really …
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time left to confront the real issues. This saying, by Sogyal Rinpoche, is one of my favorites. I discovered it years ago when I turned a page of a daily calendar. ‘Active laziness’ Rinpoche also calls it. The Deliberately Making …
One of the big enigmas in the way we perceive things when it concerns personal development, may well be the difference between the way we think we perceive ourselves in our own inner world as opposed to the way we think the outside world perceives us. When we are happy we literally beam happiness, with …
Have you seen them around? The little puppets of moving people.nu? They are small replica’s, like the ones you see in the miniature city of Madurodam. Images of people like you and me, internationals who, for entirely personal reasons, have moved from one country to another. People, who have travelled; in some cases a long …
Dear Readers Last week I participated in a workshop of energy medicine nederland of which the founder and spokeswoman, Patricia Koster, was also present. Patricia is dedicated to her causes. Driven, she invests her energies in goals she believes in. Last Friday she took the opportunity of using our EMN gathering to spotlight the street art …
While it can seem nice, to mutter and moan openly about things one doesn’t like, there’s a catch to living in a free country and being able to say what you think. That catch being that merely complaining about something, without doing anything constructive about it, makes you a conspirator in what you are complaining …
