2008-11-15

One week with Japp van de Haar

Everything we know comes from somewhere. Every picture is given to us by something already existing. The more information we receive, the more we can see. The more concepts we are taught, then the things we can see in life get richer and richer. Information is development. The more we know, the more we can decide what our own concepts are, our own concept shaped from the many different concepts we learn.


The future is not understanding the world, but to do the things you do because you love to do it, whether you educate or take care of people, farming or whatever: to do your work because you love to do it. That is the future. Through all our development in science and in our intellectuality we have lost the contact to the inner self, to doing things because we love them.


Through the love of humanity, in that source, science, spirituality and politics can all come together. In the source of love we can combine those three aspects of society that have become so separated in our time.


Sleep is only a small death and death a long sleep.

2008-11-11

Highlights


Quotes of the day:

"Time is a matter of where we are living now." Japp van de Haar

"Every part of an organism is a microcosmic picture of the whole organism." Reinoud Meijer

Todays conclusion:

You can only develop inner freedom if there is a danger of not being free. Our generation stands alone, there are no deities to guide or steer us. We must find it in ourselves. The spirituality of the future comes from the inner self.

You know you're a YIP'ie when...

... You wish the day had at least 30 hours... (extra)
... Buying a MacBook is the second most important thing next to world peace
... Going out for a bit of fresh air means it's time to smoke
... Not sharing your teabag with at least one other person means you're being unenvironmental
... Hitchhiking becomes the climax of your weekend
... The delivery of honey becomes the climax of the week