Thanks to Jan Versteegh, who also visited ZeeVELD for a candid conversation with Thomas for his book ‘Becoming happy in this way’. He and 17 others – including Kluun, Ben Woldring, Sacha de Boer and Fred Teeven – were asked by Jan why and how they dared to take that radical step towards their ultimate happiness in life.
‘It was not a self-help book,’ says Versteegh, ‘but it could be of great use to you.’
The book was published March 14 by publisher Prometheus.
In 1989, Walter Meijles, then 16 years old, spent a short weekend at ZeeVELD. Visually, he revives Ton de Nooy, the founder of Jan XVII, in this recollection.
The greatest danger of excesses of excessive irrationality – Orlando, the murder of Jo Cox, a possible Brexit, presidential candidate Trump – is that they
Liber teaches you to live on two motors: the motor of your thinking, doing and letting go, striving, finding, feeling, wanting to know and expecting, AND those of your completely silent awareness of this…
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.
