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.
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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
‘It is precisely setbacks that can put a person on the track of inner renewal’. An intriguing thought, right now. Click and read what Thomas says about it in Klooster magazine.
To become silent is to become a woman. And mother. All willingness to love and receive every word; then to wait motionless and finally to give birth: the life-giving word. And again. And again.
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.
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)
Thomas van Kleef tells how he transformed ZeeVELD into ‘one and a half meters of accommodation’.
In the monastic tradition, the art of silence plays a major role. Such a big role that I will devote a lot of words to it in this blog.
