Drømmetydning: Edderkop

“Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

– Alan Watts

“Se på et træ, en blomst, en plante. Lad din bevidsthed hvile på den. Iagtag, hvor dybt rodfæstet i Væren de er. Tillad naturen til at lære dig stilhed.

– Eckhart Tolle

“Jo før du indser, at dit ydre mål ikke kan give dig varig tilfredshed, jo bedre. Når du har indset dit ydre måls begrænsninger, opgiver du dine urealistiske forventninger om, at det skal gøre dig lykkelig, og lader det ydre formål tjene det indre

– Eckhart Tolle

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

– Alan Watts

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

– Alan Watts

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

– Alan Watts

“Jo mere du fokuserer på tid – fortid og fremtid – jo mere går du glip af Nuet, som er det mest værdifulde, der findes.

– Eckhart Tolle

“Den evige tid er det rum, inden for hvilket hele dit liv udfolder sig, den ene faktor, der forbliver konstant. Livet er nu. Der var aldrig været et tidspunkt, hvor dit liv ikke var nu, heller ikke vil det nogensinde komme.

– Eckhart Tolle

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

– Alan Watts

“We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

– Alan Watts

“Du skal ikke søge lykken. Hvis du søger det, vil du ikke finde det, fordi at søge er det modsatte af lykke .

– Eckhart Tolle

“Al negativitet forårsages af en ophobning af psykologisk tid og fornægtelse af nuet. Ubehag, angst, spænding, stress, bekymring – alle former for frygt – forårsages af for meget fremtid og for lidt nærvær. Skyldfølelser, anger, vrede, beklagelser, tristhed, bitterhed og alle former for mangel på tilgivelse forårsages af for meget fortid og for lidt nærvær.

– Eckhart Tolle

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

– Alan Watts

“Visdom kommer med evnen til at være stille. Bare se og bare lytte. Intet mere er nødvendigt. Lad stilheden lede dine ord og handlinger

– Eckhart Tolle

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

– Alan Watts

“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

– Alan Watts

“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don’t like doing, which is stupid.

– Alan Watts

“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

– Alan Watts

“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

– Alan Watts

“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

– Alan Watts

“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness – an act of trust in the unknown.

– Alan Watts

“Hvis der virkelig ikke er noget, du kan gøre for at ændre dit her og nu, og du ikke kan forlade situationen, så acceptér dit her og nu totalt ved at give slip på enhver indre modstand

– Eckhart Tolle

“To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.

– Alan Watts

“Se, om du kan fange dig selv i at beklage dig, enten i det, du siger, eller i dine tanker, over en situation, du befinder dig i, hvad andre mennesker gør eller siger, over dine omgivelser, over din livssituation, ja endda over vejret. Beklagelser er altid ikke-accept af det, der er. De skaber uden undtagelse en ubevidst negativ ladning.

– Eckhart Tolle

“Ikke at være i stand til at stoppe tænkning er en frygtelig lidelse, men vi er ikke klar over dette, fordi næsten alle er ramt af det, så det anses for normalt. Denne uophørlige mentale støj forhindrer dig i at finde den rigdom af indre stilhed, der er uadskillelig fra Væren

– Eckhart Tolle

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

– Alan Watts

“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

– Alan Watts

“When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

– Alan Watts

“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

– Alan Watts

“The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

– Alan Watts

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

– Alan Watts

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness’s of other people.

– Carl Jung