Today would have been Rob Schipper’s birthday. Together with Ton de Nooy he founded Jan XVII. For years, Rob kept watch faithfully, also literally, in ZeeVELD so that the efforts of the foundation could take shape here. He passed away earlier this year.
As a tribute, we recently placed a commemorative plaque on the house he had built on the site.
Who is actually at the controls of what you think and feel? And if you now say: ‘that is myself’, what or who is that, that ‘self’?
‘…that I don’t coincide with what I think and feel: thanks to Liber I now understand.’ Click on the picture and read what Elke says about Liber.
‘You can’t arrange something like that with a referendum’, ‘the stayers campaigned poorly’, or ‘politics made it their own’ – reasons for the result of
… to have to admire so much beauty on your own. Click here for more pictures.
Monk’s work described in one word: detachment. Dying to self is at the heart of the spiritual journey. Read here what the Franciscan friar Richard Rohr has to say about it.
Celebrating Christmas can become an unholy way of Christmas, getting in the way… Read and listen more here.
