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.

 

For what the silence produces

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.

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The demagogue in me

Every time President Trump says, ‘I am the solution’, I know again: yes indeed, in me the problem. Waking. There’s work to be done. Read more here…

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