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vrijdag 14 maart 2014
Als de ziele luistert
'Psychopathie is een coma van de diepere lagen van het bewustzijn. Het is alsof de slaap zich een toegang heeft verschaft tot het waakbewustzijn.'
'Empaten voelen zich als de laatste persoon die ze ontmoet hebben.'
'Woorden zijn werelden voor hooggevoelige mensen. Je kunt erin reizen en rondlopen.'
'Wee het volk waar de koning een kind is.'
'Een relatie met een psychopaat is een bijna-doodrelatie: je loopt erop leeg.'
'De gebieden in je geest waar je een weinig sterke binding mee hebt, kunnen in bezit worden genomen door rovers.'
'De heilige draagt ook een masker. Om de mensen die onwetend zijn niet in verwarring te brengen.'
(citaten geplukt uit een lezing van Jan Storms over Hooggevoeligheid vs. Psychopathie)
Labels:
citaten,
notities,
privédomein,
sensitiviteitjes,
spiritualiteit,
zielsverwanten,
zieneres
maandag 16 april 2012
Sheer beauty
vrijdag 16 maart 2012
Diepste angst
Ook in haar werd de diepste angst nu aangeraakt. Bijna zes is ze, en ik heb ze nooit zo beteuterd naar Karrewiet zien kijken.
En dan het vragenvuur:
"Mama, er zijn nog ergere dingen hé dan doodgaan."
"Wat dan?"
"Sterven."
"Oh ja, en wat is dan het verschil?"
"Sterven is gewoon vanzelf sterven. Doodgaan is doodgaan door iets, een ongeluk of zo."
"Wat dan?"
"Sterven."
"Oh ja, en wat is dan het verschil?"
"Sterven is gewoon vanzelf sterven. Doodgaan is doodgaan door iets, een ongeluk of zo."
"Gelukkig gaan wij met de trein naar de dierentuin. Want treinen gaan niet zo vaak door tunnels hé mama?"
woensdag 16 november 2011
Life and its intolerable cruelty
maandag 24 oktober 2011
Water en brood
je bent mijn huis
ik heb jou uitgewoond
van krakende scharnieren
tot afgebladderde verf
en tussen de scherven
zoeken wij ons geluk
van asem die andermans asem wordt
en taal die niet meer weet
wiens tong men spreekt
schuifelend breekt een dag aan
en weer weten wij niet
of het vandaag licht wordt
of donker
(AAA, 24 okt 2011, 05u30)
ik heb jou uitgewoond
van krakende scharnieren
tot afgebladderde verf
en tussen de scherven
zoeken wij ons geluk
van asem die andermans asem wordt
en taal die niet meer weet
wiens tong men spreekt
schuifelend breekt een dag aan
en weer weten wij niet
of het vandaag licht wordt
of donker
(AAA, 24 okt 2011, 05u30)
Labels:
amour,
mixed emotions,
moleskine,
nachtgedachten,
poëzie,
privédomein
donderdag 13 oktober 2011
donderdag 6 oktober 2011
Hart/d
Voortdurend aangesproken worden op je barbapapa-gehalte. Hierop berispt worden als was het een misdaad. Dat we meer nood hebben aan moed dan aan zachtheid, zeggen ze. Waar moet het heen met een wereld waarin men zich moet schamen om teerheid?
donderdag 22 september 2011
Euh
"Er bestaan geen goede mannen."
"Ik ben nochtans al dertien jaar gelukkig getrouwd."
"Dat KAN niet! U maakt zichzelf iets wijs! En het is zelfs de vraag of het wel zo goed is dat u zichzelf iets wijsmaakt!"
"Ik zie toch veel goede mannen rondom mij!?"
"U raaskalt! Mocht uw huwelijk op de klippen lopen, en u probeert al die andere mannen uit, zou u wel merken dat ze niet goed zijn!"
"Maar ik heb al..."
"U steekt mannen een pluim in hun gat en ze verdienen dat niet! U wil zich populair maken bij mannen! Dat is een ZEER fallische reflex!"
(...)
(uit een gesprek met een niet nader genoemde psychoanalyticus)
"Ik ben nochtans al dertien jaar gelukkig getrouwd."
"Dat KAN niet! U maakt zichzelf iets wijs! En het is zelfs de vraag of het wel zo goed is dat u zichzelf iets wijsmaakt!"
"Ik zie toch veel goede mannen rondom mij!?"
"U raaskalt! Mocht uw huwelijk op de klippen lopen, en u probeert al die andere mannen uit, zou u wel merken dat ze niet goed zijn!"
"Maar ik heb al..."
"U steekt mannen een pluim in hun gat en ze verdienen dat niet! U wil zich populair maken bij mannen! Dat is een ZEER fallische reflex!"
(...)
(uit een gesprek met een niet nader genoemde psychoanalyticus)
dinsdag 20 september 2011
Love etc.
There's something very self-soothing in loving your loved one’s weaknesses.
Labels:
amour,
de weg,
privédomein,
sensitiviteitjes,
spiritualiteit,
zielsverwanten
vrijdag 26 augustus 2011
Some more polyamory wisdom
Indeed, the romance myth is focused on scarcity: There is only one person out there for you!!! You need to find someone to marry before you get too old!!!! The sexual exclusivity rule is focused on scarcity, too: each person only has a certain amount of attention or attraction or love or interest, and if any of it goes to someone besides their partner their partner must lose out. We don’t generally apply this rule to other relationships—we don’t assume that having two kids means loving the first one less or not at all, or having more than one friend means being a bad or fake or less interested friend to our other friends. We apply this particular understanding of scarcity to romance and love, and most of us internalize that feeling of scarcity pretty deeply. (...)
A lot of the things I’m writing here go to the basic notion of what we think loving other people is about. Is it about possessing them, finding security in them, having all our needs met by them, being able to treat them in any way and still having them stick around? I hope not. What I hope that love is—whether platonic, romantic, familial, or communal—is the sincere wish that another person have what they need to be whole and develop themselves to their best capacity for joy or whatever fulfillment they’re seeking. (...)
No matter how much we love and want and adore and are hot for our partners, we also experience desire outside that dyad, and the myth of romance (one person out there for each of us, find them, love them, buy things with them and you’ll be happy forever), which we’re all drilled with from birth ’til death, makes this knowledge terribly threatening. So the point, for me, becomes recognizing that commitment and love and interest in someone else’s well being does not necessarily include a deadening of all sexual desire for other people, or trying to unlearn the belief that it does. The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth. (...)
I’ve been disturbed to see dynamics emerge where people create the new poly norm and then hate themselves if they cannot live up to it. If they are not perfect at being non-jealous, non-threatened, and totally delighted by their partners’ exploits immediately then they have somehow failed. I have felt this way myself. Frustrated at how my intellect can embrace this approach to sex and yet my emotional reaction is sometimes enormous and undeniably negative. At times, this has become a new unachievable perfection I use to torture myself, embarrassed even to admit to friends how awful I feel when overcome by jealousy, and becoming increasingly distant from partners as I try to hide these shameful and overwhelming feelings.
This doesn’t seem like the radical and revolutionary practice I had hoped for. In fact, it feels all too familiar, like the other traumas of growing up under capitalism—alienation from myself and others, constant insecurity and distrust and fear, self-hatred and doubt and inadequacy. I do not have a resolution for this dilemma. I only have hopes, for myself and others, and lots of questions. How do I recognize the inadequacy of the romance myth while acknowledging its deep roots in my emotional life? How do I balance my intellectual understandings with my deep-seated emotional habits/expectations? It seems like the best answer to all of this is to move forward as we do in the rest of our activism, carefully and slowly, based on our clearest principles, with trust and a willingness to make mistakes. The difficulty of having open relationships should not be a reason not to try it, but it should be a reason not to create new punishing norms in our communities or in our own minds. We’ve done difficult things before. We struggle with internalized oppressions, we chose to live our lives in ways that our families often tell us are impossible, idealistic or dangerous, and we get joy from creatively resisting the limits of our culture and political system that are both external and part of our own minds."
http://makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html
A lot of the things I’m writing here go to the basic notion of what we think loving other people is about. Is it about possessing them, finding security in them, having all our needs met by them, being able to treat them in any way and still having them stick around? I hope not. What I hope that love is—whether platonic, romantic, familial, or communal—is the sincere wish that another person have what they need to be whole and develop themselves to their best capacity for joy or whatever fulfillment they’re seeking. (...)
No matter how much we love and want and adore and are hot for our partners, we also experience desire outside that dyad, and the myth of romance (one person out there for each of us, find them, love them, buy things with them and you’ll be happy forever), which we’re all drilled with from birth ’til death, makes this knowledge terribly threatening. So the point, for me, becomes recognizing that commitment and love and interest in someone else’s well being does not necessarily include a deadening of all sexual desire for other people, or trying to unlearn the belief that it does. The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth. (...)
I’ve been disturbed to see dynamics emerge where people create the new poly norm and then hate themselves if they cannot live up to it. If they are not perfect at being non-jealous, non-threatened, and totally delighted by their partners’ exploits immediately then they have somehow failed. I have felt this way myself. Frustrated at how my intellect can embrace this approach to sex and yet my emotional reaction is sometimes enormous and undeniably negative. At times, this has become a new unachievable perfection I use to torture myself, embarrassed even to admit to friends how awful I feel when overcome by jealousy, and becoming increasingly distant from partners as I try to hide these shameful and overwhelming feelings.
This doesn’t seem like the radical and revolutionary practice I had hoped for. In fact, it feels all too familiar, like the other traumas of growing up under capitalism—alienation from myself and others, constant insecurity and distrust and fear, self-hatred and doubt and inadequacy. I do not have a resolution for this dilemma. I only have hopes, for myself and others, and lots of questions. How do I recognize the inadequacy of the romance myth while acknowledging its deep roots in my emotional life? How do I balance my intellectual understandings with my deep-seated emotional habits/expectations? It seems like the best answer to all of this is to move forward as we do in the rest of our activism, carefully and slowly, based on our clearest principles, with trust and a willingness to make mistakes. The difficulty of having open relationships should not be a reason not to try it, but it should be a reason not to create new punishing norms in our communities or in our own minds. We’ve done difficult things before. We struggle with internalized oppressions, we chose to live our lives in ways that our families often tell us are impossible, idealistic or dangerous, and we get joy from creatively resisting the limits of our culture and political system that are both external and part of our own minds."
http://makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html
A new look on polyamory
"Polyamory is sometimes compared to swinging. But if they are so similar, why are there so many swingers and so few polyfolk? To outsiders, both seem based on similar elements of open sexuality, yet the lifestyle gang can fill entire Las Vegas hotels with their conventions, while polyfolk count it as a big success if there are even a hundred people at one of their conferences.
The difference, I feel, is the challenge of self-determination. Very broadly stated, swingers buy into a new set of externally generated rules to enjoy a new form of recreational activity. That is, they simply trade the mainstream rules for the lifestyle rules. By contrast, the poly way is to make up one's own rules, internal to the specific relationship in question, to create a new way of structuring deep aspects of one's life. (These are broad generalizations. I know many people in the swing scene who take it deeper, and many polys who don't. But for this broad discussion, I feel these generalizations are basically valid.)
This is relevant because it is far easier to buy in to a new set of external rules than to take full responsibility for the self-examination and honest discussion necessary to create your own. So it's logical that there are far fewer polyfolk than swingers. The poly ideal is that all interested parties sit down and co-create the rules they want to live by, personally and between themselves. This is worthwhile, but it's not easy, and most people are unwilling to do the tough self-examination and open-hearted negotiation it demands.
Even more, most people are unwilling to take the necessary personal responsibility for creating a successful outcome. With some other paradigms, people accept external rules as provided. This lets them blame any failures on the external rules. But polyamory is where you write your own rules, so "the buck stops here", because "here" is where the framework got set up in the first place."
http://ejhs.org/volume14/NoSuch.htm
The difference, I feel, is the challenge of self-determination. Very broadly stated, swingers buy into a new set of externally generated rules to enjoy a new form of recreational activity. That is, they simply trade the mainstream rules for the lifestyle rules. By contrast, the poly way is to make up one's own rules, internal to the specific relationship in question, to create a new way of structuring deep aspects of one's life. (These are broad generalizations. I know many people in the swing scene who take it deeper, and many polys who don't. But for this broad discussion, I feel these generalizations are basically valid.)
This is relevant because it is far easier to buy in to a new set of external rules than to take full responsibility for the self-examination and honest discussion necessary to create your own. So it's logical that there are far fewer polyfolk than swingers. The poly ideal is that all interested parties sit down and co-create the rules they want to live by, personally and between themselves. This is worthwhile, but it's not easy, and most people are unwilling to do the tough self-examination and open-hearted negotiation it demands.
Even more, most people are unwilling to take the necessary personal responsibility for creating a successful outcome. With some other paradigms, people accept external rules as provided. This lets them blame any failures on the external rules. But polyamory is where you write your own rules, so "the buck stops here", because "here" is where the framework got set up in the first place."
http://ejhs.org/volume14/NoSuch.htm
dinsdag 16 augustus 2011
dinsdag 31 mei 2011
Zijn Oneindige Zoetheid
Die haar elke nacht in slaap sust met hetzelfde ritueel: handen doen rondje op de buik, vingers knijpen tepel, mond zoent hals.
Gezegend Zij
Slapend aan het open raam, met de geur van Toscaanse jasmijn en een zee van rozen in haar neus.
Labels:
feuilles volantes,
moleskine,
nachtgedachten,
privédomein
zondag 15 mei 2011
Orewoet
Nature
do with me what has to be done
use me as your vessel for life
abuse me
I am your willing slave
do with me what has to be done
use me as your vessel for life
abuse me
I am your willing slave
Labels:
nature,
privédomein,
sensitiviteitjes,
spiritualiteit,
zieneres
vrijdag 15 april 2011
Moederschap
De ultieme oefening in nederigheid.
Labels:
feuilles volantes,
privédomein,
sensitiviteitjes
maandag 4 april 2011
Liefde?
Weer een bevriend koppel uit elkaar. Soms voel ik me een fossiel.
Labels:
amour,
Bitterzoet,
de weg,
polyamorie,
privédomein
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