It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
Filosoferen is vragen stellen. Elke vraag leidt tot een nieuwe vraag, waarop misschien wel honderd antwoorden mogelijk zijn. Zonder zekerheden vragenderwijs proberen de richting te vinden in je zoektocht naar bezieling. -Fem Dijkman-
Overzicht
maandag 30 juni 2014
VOOROORDELEN
vrijdag 27 juni 2014
LES INTOUCHABLES
Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
Voor Aagje's vriendinnenclub:)
donderdag 26 juni 2014
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
dinsdag 24 juni 2014
GEWETEN
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
Compassion is a feeling from deep in the heart that you cannot bear someone else's suffering without taking steps to relieve it.
Dalai Lamazondag 22 juni 2014
WAARDEN EN NORMEN
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
zaterdag 21 juni 2014
NORMEN EN WAARDEN
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
donderdag 19 juni 2014
GEDOGEN
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
dinsdag 17 juni 2014
OPVOEDING
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
maandag 16 juni 2014
FAMILIAIR
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.