From flat to sparkling

With love, Transitium ZeeVELD offers a home to the most diverse retreats. No less than three in a row in the past week alone.

But ZeeVELD also has its own awareness path: Liber.

Practicing the crux of Liber: to become aware of how only a single obstacle stands in the way of your unification with your deepest purpose, the essence of all things: the value you place on your own opinion about setbacks, disappointments or events where you weren’t waiting for.

Look at it this way: all life ends in one great ‘disappointment’: our death. Then the next question is: which is more relevant now? Our opinion or conception of that death, or the actual, real fact of it?

Nothing invites us to unity like setbacks. Put a curl on that word (or with feelings like ‘difficult’, ‘difficult’, ‘disappointing’, ‘doesn’t suit me’, ‘I can’t wait’) and we signal our views about what we are experiencing, more important to find than anything. First and foremost: our opinion about people and things. Learn – Liber! – to welcome setbacks with an open heart, to ‘eat’, to ‘digest’, and the deepest, always surprising and life-giving message that is also hidden in ‘disappointing’ or ‘disappointing’ events becomes clear to you.

And instead of opinions, insights become your part. It becomes difficult to struggle, to cooperate gratefully. Turns flat into sparkling life.

Sound inviting? Try Liber yourself here .

detachment

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.

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