Hopelessness as a source of creativity

‘It is an incredibly fun challenge to turn an impossible situation into a new and creative starting point’. In front of the camera of rental platform Groepen.nl , Thomas van Kleef explains how he transformed ZeeVELD into ‘one and a half meters of accommodation’ in half a day. This once again showed how this place, step after careful step, is indeed developing into a ‘monastery of the future’. Where guests and permanent residents learn how to live receptively. And not: projecting.

Spirituality a la ZeeVELD: not what you do, but how you do things. Not what you believe, but that you believe: that Life itself believes in you. And giving you minute by minute directions to be a sign of that Life here on Earth. Bubbling, sparkling and constantly renewing what has become jaded.

 

Not demands, but gifts

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.

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soft powers

Never out of date: ‘The soft forces will certainly win’ * The soft powers will surely win in the end — this I hear like

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