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Have a goal? Don’t confuse talking with doing!

mundoresink — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:46:46 +0000

Derek Sivers explains in three minutes how shutting up about your goal will help you achieve it:

Words of wisdom from Carl Jung: tread lightly on the dreams of our children

mundoresink — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:45:07 +0000

Saw a brilliant TED-video with Ken Robinson a while back. It was about children's dreams, and how we adults tend to trample them with our own fears, insecurities, and 'sanity'.

… And check out some of Carl Jung's words below, thanks to Paolo Coelho's Blog.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist

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Off the wall! Graffiti art in motion

mundoresink — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:49:36 +0000

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Amazing M.C. Escher panorama!

mundoresink — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:44:05 +0000

Tribute to Escher in Barcelona

And some quotes by M.C. Escher:

” I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well”
” I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints”
” To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am”
” At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important”
” I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven’t the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I’ve been doing this work for thirty years now”
” I don’t grow up. In me is the small child of my early days”
” I play a tiresome game”
” I walk around in mysteries. Each time, youngsters say: you make Op-art too. I don’t know what that is, Op-art. This work I have been making for the past thirty years”
” The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure”
” So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen”

Thanks to Paulo Coelho!

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It’s my birthday and I’ll give it away if I want to! Care to help me out?

mundoresink — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:55:39 +0000

I'm giving my 28th birthday away
to provide 250 people with their most basic needs: clean water and a smile on their face.

The Goal? Raise $5000.
All of the money, the full 100%, will go to one of charity: water's projects.

I've already been given everything I need:
life, love, clean water, and the most amazing home-made carrot-cake you can imagine (courtesy of my very lovely Caatje)!

So show some love,
and help me give my birthday to 250 people who can actually use it!
Here's where you can do it: http://mycharitywater.org/28millionlightyears

Thank you
And send this on to as many people as you like!

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Let us be thankful for today and its abundance… inspiring words from Buddha

mundoresink — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:43:55 +0000

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

Siddhārtha Gautama, regarded as the Supreme Buddha ( The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE)

Thanks to Paulo Coelho (& Caatje for bringing it to my attention)

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Take a break from striving and make time for what you already have!

mundoresink — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:55:41 +0000

June 23, 2010

Tiny Buddha

“Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.” -John De Paola

Sometimes life can seem like a giant race in which we’re all chasing happiness through goals and to-do lists. No sooner than you complete one task, three spring up in it’s place. There’s hardly any time to appreciate the present–not when there’s always more to achieve, create or gain.

While most of us find happiness through commitment to a purpose, there is a middle road between discontentment and complacence. It is possible to maintain forward momentum and still notice, appreciate and enjoy what you have with a sense of peace and stillness.

Much of what you’re chasing is already available in the moment, exactly as it is.

You don’t have to spend your hours, like currency that will get you something you want. At any time, you can simply enjoy where you are. Make that time today, whether it’s a minute, an hour, or an afternoon. Take a break from striving and make time to want what you have.

After you read today’s post, Desire What You Have and Feel More Satisfied in Life, you may enjoy reading:

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Use your potential, you already have everything you need

mundoresink — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:34:58 +0000

June 11, 2010

Tiny Buddha

“Joy comes from using your potential.” –Will Schultz

Persian poet and philosopher Rumi wrote:

You were born with potential.

You were born with goodness and trust.

You were born with ideals and dreams.

You were born with greatness.

You were born with wings.

You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.

You have wings.

Learn to use them and fly.

Remember that you have all that potential and greatness in you right in this moment. You have the capacity to feel passionate, motivated, challenged, inspired and impressed with your abilities. You have the power to feel alive.

It’s easy to forget how powerful you are when you get caught up in your struggles and mistakes. When you start stressing about what’s been or what might be coming and let your thoughts become shackles.

Make the conscious choice not to anchor yourself. Let go of whatever is holding you back and make the choice to fly. The only difference between you and someone who lives out loud is choice.

Where will you soar today?

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Taking Responsibility for Your Destiny – Words that Inspired First a Man, later a Nation

mundoresink — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:56:13 +0000

This is what helped Mandela through his time in prison:

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Earnest Henly - Invictus

(and watch the film - I loved it)

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Who says video games isolate you from your family?

mundoresink — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:14:23 +0000

I wonder who’s winning this one…

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