The Power of NOW

Eckhart Tolle would be so proud of human kind realizing how much we live in a present moment. Consider the issue of climate change!

We don't look back at what we've caused and neither we look to the future because it might be too disturbing.

We are living NOW. But only Tolle might consider this to be a great achievement.

For the rest of us, we are fucked.

#momentsImiss....

... I could walk the shore for hours everyday looking for the most beautiful pieces... This was the most effective meditation practice I've ever got to....

*highly recommended*

...peace of mind coming with a pea soup ?

.....since it's their daily offer, I might think of visiting more often :-D #prague#czenglish#easy#enlightenment

...I could not read your head

In the beginning of Gone Girl movie, there is this monologue during which Ben Affleck stares long at his wife's head, and then starts thinking aloud of cracking her skull in order to get into her head because he wants to find out, what she really thinks of... He wants to get answers she doesn't provide...

rather than getting a new baseball bat ... make peace with not knowing

friendship first, please

Unlike a variety of other relationships, friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.

One can admire someone who is completely unaware of our admiration, and the integrity of that admiration is not lost; one may even employ someone without knowing who it is specifically one employs; one may be related to a great-aunt whom one has never met (and may fail ever to meet).  And one may,  of course,  fall in love with someone without the beloved being aware of it or reciprocating the love at all.

And in all these cases, the relationships are still what they are, whatever the attitude of the other person in them: they are relationships of admiration, business, family, or love. But friendship is different. 

Friendship uniquely requires mutual self-knowledge and will. It takes  two competent, willing people to be friends. You cannot impose a friendship on someone, although you can impose a crush, a lawsuit, or an obsession.
If friendship is  not reciprocated, it simply ceases to exist or, rather, it never existed in the first place

Love affairs need immense energy, they demand a total commitment and a capacity for pain. Friendship, in contrast, merely needs tending. Although it is alive, a living, breathing thing, and can suffer from neglect, friendship can be left for a while without terrible consequences. Because it is built on the accumulation of past experiences, and not the fickle and vulnerable promise of future ones, it has a sturdiness that love may often lack, and an undemonstrative beauty that love would walk heedlessly past.

Andrew Sullivan

#holiday#work#misery

Look at what I saw as a first thing on Monday /and then Tuesday morning. Would you be able to spot the difference? #IthinkIneedaholiday to recover from that...

it bewilders you too #chaotic stream of thoughts that're driving me crazy

Sitting in front of my screen, watching and reading the latest news, I can't count up how often I have to stop myself from screaming out loudly what the fuck! The number of people suffering from war and terror seems to be so high that even though we are not all involved, I consider it to be a world war. The world against itself. 

I can’t get the slightest idea how much do people suffer in these places, how could I, I am safely hidden in one of the most peaceful part of this world, but I know for sure, there should be no difference being made between suffering of 270 civilians killed in Syria and 298 western civilians killed in that shot down plane. Yet, when you turn on your radio or TV, the differences are significant and obvious. The scale and extensity of news provided and dedicated to those two cases which took place during one day, were rather uneven. It makes me angry, sad and confused. Especially because it lacks respect for humanity in all senses there are.

In times like these I ponder much more intensively about what could I do about this? How could I contribute to bringing the peace into areas like Gaza, Sudan or Syria? Surprisingly, I haven’t found out yet. Once, I had a dream that I was a high UN official, (weird, hah;-) there was some terrible crisis going on and in that dream, I invited all the politicians and UN experts under one roof, into the heart of the crisis, I locked them up and told them, I would not let them go until they find a solution which would do away with the crisis.

A silly, foolish way of thinking, I agree. Obviously, these people can’t do away with those crises otherwise there would not be any. However, that is not a human nature what is driving the dreadful conflicts of this world, that'd be a lame excuse! The human nature might seemingly have more layers, though I am certain that the truly real is the one, in which you don’t kill your neighbor as if nothing happens.

I have no solution to these disasters; neither was it my ambition to ever come up with any, I’m no smart enough for that. Only can I remind of an idea concerning the way we could raise the coming generations. When I was in Kyrgyzstan, listening to stories of people, who lost their kids, relatives or friends in the riots, I realized one thing. It all starts with children. Sure, the children have to be told the truth and the history, but it should be in the way which make them realize they only want to live the future and not the past anymore. The peaceful future, not the bloody past. 

I can guarantee you one thing. Half of the Gaza population now is under the age of 18. If you go and bomb them as kids, you can be sure, they will be full of hatred, resentment and anger for the rest of their life and they will retell their own past to their kids through the stories full of mortal enemies. And this vicious circle will never come to an end.

We have to dig deeper to get to the good layer of humans. We have to work very hard to become better human beings, but tell me, is there a better reason making the hard work reasonable than children having a chance to play soccer on the beach without a danger of being killed by an old neighbor?

An upset idealist.

Peace&Love

last day in my s o u l p l a c e | q u e e n d o m

 

 

simple # love# hurt # trust

look familiar? 

Marina Abramovic & Ulay (1980)

when 2 times 1 makes 11 in my head

The feeling when you're standing in front of the stage, the music's playing, the band's really enjoying their performance, they're smiling, people are screaming with excitement, dancing, storming the stage, the sound's excellent and everyone there just loves the show BUT YOU.

with love..

My lovely Jess!

I wish I could send you a postcard or letter and make you as happy as you make me every time I get one from you.

The fact you are constantly moving from place to place, not having a permanent address, makes it very difficult, so I have decided to let you know this way...

You will understand when I admit, your adventures make me a bit envious sometimes, but I can hardly think of another person who would deserve it more than you. You live up to the idea of life you imagined for yourself and that requires a lot of strength, courage and making away with all the fears that usually force us to give up on our dreams. I admire you for that and wish to get that strong some day soon as well.

My dear, be sure, I am very happy our paths crossed too. You would not believe, how often I recall our time together on the rooftop and afterwards, I always ponder on how badly I want to get back there! Once, probably while travelling up North and having the amazing nature scenery around you, you wrote me "...so much wilderness up here". Reading it, I was sitting in my flat in the middle of this city and I promised myself that next year, I will at least once more go and get the FEELING, this furtive conformity has forced out of my life, again.
It would be great to join you at some point and catch up. Maybe I will. Until then, I wish you all the best, my dear and send good vibes, lots of love and good energy your way.

Merry Christmas, dear Jess and remember "Breathe in LIFE, breathe out LOVE"

Lu

PS: Please, keep them coming ...(and when you find the right place for your farm, let the first thing you make for yourself be a nice wooden mail box, ok?:-)

Southerners ...

I wish I could be more spontaneous sometimes...

I was sitting at the bar with my colleagues in a beautiful restaurant in Cava Baja in Madrid and for more than one hour I was trying not to pay attention to a guy, who sitting on the opposite side of the bar was alternatively staring at me, the bar desk, back at me and so on...
I finished the last glass of Rioja and as I was about to leave, this guy came to me and gave me a piece of paper while saying: "Please, don't ask me why".

Only then I realized what he was doing the whole time...

Even though I hope my eyes don't look so sad, it is a beautiful picture and I wish I was able to say something...or at least ask "why".

Anyway, Mr. Unknown, thank you for reminding me of spontaneity.

I am such a tight-face sometimes, gah.

...

Nothing is more weird than if a person you feel uncomfortable around tries to comfort you...

O mužích, lovu a jiné příběhy

2 dny, 6 žen, 0 můžů, 100% legrace

"...No a kdyby do lesa na lov šla ženská, tak by na toho mamuta vyrobila past, za hodinu by byla zpátky a furt by se ještě stihla postarat o jeskyni i děti"

"Vyvrtám lepší díru do zdi než on"

"Já bych si tak zarodila..."

Tolik kontradikce na jednom místě, a v tak krátkém časovém rozpětí, se dá zažít jen zřídka...

chyba spojení

"Už nemáme spojení s ničím. Nemáme spojení se zemí, s vlastním tělem, prostě s ničím. Jo...možná s monitorem."

D. Štědroňský, Ostrava, Yogafall, 2013

thinking about time is a waste of time, sometimes

...well, this sentence was definitely a highlight of this excellent workshop! It woke me up! I had no idea there were so many philosophers working in the European structures, especially for the European Commisison. WOW!

@

....among all those men wearing a suit two sizes bigger than they actually are and carrying handbags their mamas had bought for them, he looked like an angel sent from DESIGN heaven...

unearthliness

I love morning swims in the sea....

When the sea is calm and quiet, the water cold enough to wake you up and the air windless. I love the feeling, when I first touch the cold water, swearing to myself I won't go any further in it, but usually, right after that, I do. I sink under the water table and it feels like getting into entirely different kind of world. World of one colour, simple structures and  ethereal creatures...

Counting down....6 days to go...

~

Science-fiction # Daily reality

It is an ordinary summer morning and a man is leaving his apartment on his way to work. He closes the door, locks it and starts walking the street. It is a typical street of Brno in the middle of summer - all is under construction. The whole city is dug up and so is this particular street. There are holes and heaps of building materials everywhere, so he is forced to walk the very tiny part of the street through...

..And there are female construction workers everywhere. This man is wearing shorts and light t-shirt, naturally, it is hot summer. All those female workers are stairing and leering at him, calling him names, catcalling, shouting obscene compliments and vulgar things at him... And this man, he doesn't feel flattered, he doesn't feel like he is being admired, not at all,  he feels objectified and insulted...Surprised?

Sounds like a science-fiction to you? Yes, to me too, but try to replace the man with a woman and the FEMALE construction workers with MALE construction workers and you will get an ORDINARY morning many of us experience every day.