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.

 

Inn or stable

The greatest danger of excesses of excessive irrationality – Orlando, the murder of Jo Cox, a possible Brexit, presidential candidate Trump – is that they

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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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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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