Stijn de Jongh

The way of Zen

Through intentions and thoughts. If you truly believe, you can manifest anything into your world.

Oh comfort zone, you annihilator you. Kills your courage if you don't watch out and will definitely kill your creativity. Yes it will keep you safe and away from danger or the unexpected. But seriously isn't that what life is about? Experience new things and take a leap into the unknown?

"The atman is our total consciousness what the head is to the sense of sight-neither light nor darkness, neither full nor empty, only an inconceivable beyond. In the moment when every last identification of the Self with some object or concept has ceased, in the state called nirvikalpa or "without conception," there flashes forth from its unknown depths the state of consciousness which is called divine, the knowledge of Brahman." By Alan Watts - The way of zen

It's what everybody knows, but do you really? But is it love if you clench on to your lover, is it love when you can't be who you really are. For me love is like the wind, it's everywhere and goes where it needs to go. It can hit you like a storm and before you know it be gone. Like a love you meet and spend every day together with for three months. And without a warning it dissapears from this planet like it never actually happend. Real love is not feeling sad or angry about this, it's looking back on the time you had, the lessons learned and the passion you shared. Be thankful for the lessons learned and love you where able to share and experience. Love can also be smooth like a summer breeze you know. It just flows, based on trust, respect and honesty. Love is letting your lover do whatever she wants, live her dream and love in her own way. And if your lucky she CHOSES to be with you ;) Freedom is love. If she is not completely free, she can't love fully. You will never get the best of her because she will always feel that she's not completely herself. Love is a beautiful thing, was about time I shared this Love&Light❤️

Funny how you can change your world in a month and then fall back into old habits. Habits start with consistency, patterns that keep returning. Like eating when your emotional or smoking a si*****te. It's weird how one day you're still in the habits you want to create for yourself (eating clean, not smoking) and the next you're doing exactly all the things you don't want in your life. Which brings us to comfort zone; we like what we know, its easy, we control it. Our ego wants us to stay there so bad, it's like an iron grip. Stay here and live in fear. But comfortable..this keeps us from growing. So in order to grow we must remind ourself why we are doing this and find the courage, discipline and motivation to persist on the things you like to create in your life. Habits start with consistency, the more you repeat them the better you'll get at it. And before you know it, you will master and create your perfect life I guess..

*Note to self: Try this out*

"Because of change, what we hate can't be forever kept away, but returns. Because of change, what we love doesn't remain, but surely fades. If we'd only relax, we'd notice that, because of change, what we love continues to appear, and what we hate never lasts forever. We'd also observe that there's no abiding self to be either pleased or damaged.
This is what we have to see: that all is flux and movement and flow. It's because we believe that there's some static being in the midst of all this, an imagined permanence we call "I", that we suffer duhkha." Steve Hagen - Buddhism plain and simple