Even less
Christmas to be able
to celebrate,
and Easter too,
is
to learn
confess
Lamb
to be
of body and limb
to no expect even in the power.
No more is needed.
If it had to be
still less than this;
to only
to learn
to belong:
hopeless
to be loved.
*
Also on behalf of the board of the Jan XVII Foundation, I wish you a Merry Christmas, also in the new year.
ZeeFIELD, December 2016
Thomas of Cleves
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)
“All spirituality is about dying before we die and being reborn as our True Selves in Love,” writes Richard Rohr. Read more here.
The sacred wall in the chapel of ZeeVELD has been joined by Roy Lichtenstein. An image of his painting showing Donald Duck…
Life has no meaning. Because life does not think in terms of ‘having’, but of giving. So life ‘has’ no meaning, but ‘creates’ meaning. In that life itself. Click on the image to continue reading.
However different the manifestation, the foundation of every proven spiritual discipline, from the East as much as from the West, revolves around the same recognition: sure, holiness dwells in our hearts, but between us and that heart is our ego. And unless we hand over the reins of that to outside “sacristies,” rituals or disciplines, that heart will be the dwelling place not only of our sacred, but also of our unholy. And thus a battleground.
Bloomplaats Transitium was given the time to reinvent itself for eighteen months. Like this one in Malve Dau and Marieke Hildenbrant also had two mothers.
