‘Look Mickey’

The sacred wall in the chapel of ZeeVELD has been joined by Roy Lichtenstein. An image of his painting in which Donald Duck proudly thinks he is hooking a huge fish: himself.

“What does Liber get me?” is sometimes asked. See the answer here. view. An open eye for the extent to which we first define our own happiness or unhappiness, then start pushing and pulling to get what happens to us – the will of life for us – to fit within us self-invented framework – our will for life.

When we say: ‘Oh, how happy I am’, or ‘Oh, how unhappy I am’, we are really saying as much as: ‘Oh how wonderful that my will is law’. Or rather: ‘how annoying that life doesn’t do what I want’.

“Look Mickey, I’ve hooked a big one!!” As long as we are at the tap of our own sense of self, ‘spiritual development’ or ‘personal growth’ are other words for self-ticking.

 

Inn or stable

The greatest danger of excesses of excessive irrationality – Orlando, the murder of Jo Cox, a possible Brexit, presidential candidate Trump – is that they

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me, who am i?

When we build a house, we start at the beginning. Against all the laws of gravity, we start with our house of life at the roof. Not with the question marks, but with the exclamation marks of our existence. Click on the image to read more

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Look at the new man

Anyone who fears that man as we now think of himself will perish is right, for the simple reason that he has not been given that right to exist. It is not ‘designed’ that way. (Read more here)

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