In the final step of meditation, all ideas fall away like leaves in the autumn

Painting by Aert van der Neer

In the final step of meditation, all ideas fall away like leaves in the autumn.

Passive listening presence is the only way to deal with dreams

Passive listening presence is the only way to deal with dreams.

You must be yourself present all day through, be aware of the relationship with the surrounding world, your reactions and thoughts, and see the dreams connectedly with this.

If you isolate the dreams from this coherence, and place yourself outside them and interpret them from your historical limited background and your images of life, without having yourself included in your understanding, yes, then you will never get insight in what dreams are.

The mirror of the relationship can either distort or expose the truth about yourself

The mirror of the relationship can either distort or expose the truth about yourself.

Most of us see in the relationship, in the mirror, that, we preferably want to see, but we don´t see that which is real.

We will preferable idealize or escape, and rather live in the future than seeing the relationship in which we are in the moment.

Meaning is an utterance of freedom

As despair has a relationship with loss, then meaning has a relationship with fullness.

The meaning in what you do is filling, lifting up and expanding.

Meaning owns a freedom which does that it can´t be emptied out; it is so to speak inexhaustible.

Meaning is therefore also an utterance of freedom.

Meaning opens your existence, or it is an opening of your existence towards the present, the now.

The relationship is a mirror in which you can discover yourself

The relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself.

This mirror can either distort or expose the truth about yourself.

Most of us use in the relationship, in the mirror, what we preferably want to see, but we don´t see what is real.

We like to condemn, justify, compare, or escape, and rather live in the past or the future, than to to see the relations in which we are in the moment.

In this way the present is, as the philosopher Blaise Pascal said, only becomes used by the past as a passage to the future, and therefore the relationship - which is something that is in the moment, and not in the past or the future - becomes meaningless, wherefore there arises unreality and absence.

Most of us see in the relationship, in the mirror, what we want to see, but we don´t see the real

The relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself.

This mirror can either distort or expose the truth about yourself.

Most of us see in the relationship, in the mirror, what we preferably want to see, but we don´t see that, which is real.

We like to condemn, justify, compare, or escape, and rather live in the past or the future, than to see the relations in which we are in the moment.

In this way the present, as Pascal said, only becomes used by the past as a passage to the future, and therefore the relationship – which is something that is in the moment, and not in past and future – becomes meaningless, wherefore there arises unreality and absence.

Unless we meet relationships completely, there arise conflicts in the meeting with the challenge

The human being who observes and meets life, as if it for instance only is limited by the economical, or intellectual relationship, is not a Man of wholeness, and his conflicts are countless, because life is the connection with everything; with things, humans and ideas, and unless we meet these relationships completely, correctly, there arise conflicts in the meeting with the challenge.

Our life-expressions become self-circling.

The reason why we don´t understand human relationships is because we use them to achieve something

The relationship is in connection with identity the mirror, in which you can discover yourself. Without the relationship you are nothing. To be is to be in relationship, which is the actual life. You only live in relationship, otherwise you don´t live, then life is without meaning.

So it is not because you construct your identity that you live. You live, and have your identity, in the ability to be self-forgetful engaged in the relationship, and it is the lack of ability to understand this, which causes conflict.

The reason why, that there no understanding is of the relationship, is, that you use relationships to achieve something, become something, to be remoulded, to be something else than what you are.