Last nights festivities called for a slow day and the mansion with its pool is a great place to do just that. 🙂
The biggest event of the day has been a follow up to last months first step into something new; a second hurdle has been taken, bits and pieces are falling into place and I am verrrry close to reveal it all…extremely excited and happy, and Ibiza is a great place to celebrate…yayyy! 🙂 🙂
The early wake-up call this morning has a huge advantage; a full day of Ibiza sun at the mansion (with pool 🙂 ) yayyy! 🙂 A pretty good way to rest a little before tonights highlight, Hardwell, the #1 DJ in the world!
I saw him once before, two years ago at Breda Live, just before he became ‘da man’…looking forward…party on!!
Ever since I read The Alchemist in 2006, I have been a great fan of Paulo Coelho. That first encounter with his work became even more special and valuable as the book was given my cousin who passed away way to soon in 2008. Paulo Coelho has an amazing talent to turn a random story into a life changing adventure with many many layers in it, something waiting to be found for anyone.
Below you will find 25 quotes from Paulo Coelho, true Life Changing Lessons…I love ‘m!
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything.”
“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”
“Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.”
“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say “yes” to life?”
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
“Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.”
“We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by, without accepting him or her, or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.”
“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
“Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.”
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
“When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.”
“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.”
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
“Never be ashamed,’ he said. ‘Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.’ ‘How will I know which is which?’ ‘By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.”
“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.”
“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
“Don’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.”
“It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone’s mind is love.”
“Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.”
“I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.”
“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.”
“You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?”
“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”
“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – Never lie to yourself.”
(via purposefairy.com)
Scientific research might proof what everyone already knows; women can expect to live longer than men. There are many examples though that show the *real* reason why this is so…below a teaser, you can find many more reasons here, here or here!
OMG!! 🙂
Take 5 minutes to watch this beautiful clip with Maya Angelou (who passed away last month): “Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold–that’s ego. Love liberates.”
Yeah, true, unconditional love can do that…
The English language has some nice Tongue twisters and I believe ALL of them have been used in the poem below. 🙂
It is said that if you are able to pronounce every word in this poem correctly, your spoken English is better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world, ha!
Give it a serious try, though I bet most will have their tongue seriously injured and call it quits before finishing the poem. 🙂
Goodluck!!
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
This poem is called ‘The Chaos‘ and written by a dutch guy, Gerard Nolst Trenité. If you want to listen to a spoken version, you can find it on YouTube; here, here or here! 🙂
Only in Russia…ROTFLMAO!! Some musicians just cannot stop playing, or perhaps they want (/need? 🙂 ) to use every minute to practise to get better. Very creative, I love it!
I am not sure if the police is taking a picture of the vehicle for legal reasons, or just for their collection of fun moments at work. 🙂
The buildup to the longest day, the kick-off for summer, has been magnificent; I enjoyed lovely summer weather in Norway the past weeks! And then today, summer solstice day @12:51h, THE day, the LONGEST day (18h50m!), the start of summer has been cloudy and a bit chilly, huh?! Still, as mentioned earlier this week, the daylightish nights keep amazing me; I can easily read a book outside without a torch or candle, wow!! (not tonight though, brrrr 🙂 )
I know that China has been building like crazy the past years, and it is obvious that in order to build stuff one needs cement (to make concrete). What I never realized is just how much cement China has used in the past years…the graphic below puts things into perspective…pretty mind-blowing ah?
(via Bill Gates; from Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization, by the historian Vaclav Smil)
I know that most of you know about ‘karma‘, the Sanskrit word for action (also check the merriam-webster.com definition which I blogged last year, the picture in that post (below) was a 1,000 times easier to understand 🙂 ).
Below are 12 little less known Laws of Karma that will change your life! (if you read, comprehend and follow! 🙂 )
THE GREAT LAW
– “As you sow, so shall you reap”. This is also known as the “Law of Cause and Effect”.
– Whatever we put out in the Universe is what comes back to us.
– If what we want is Happiness, Peace, Love, Friendship… Then we should BE Happy, Peaceful, Loving and a True Friend.
THE LAW OF CREATION
– Life doesn’t just HAPPEN, it requires our participation.
– We are one with the Universe, both inside and out.
– Whatever surrounds us gives us clues to our inner state.
– BE yourself, and surround yourself with what you want to have present in your Life.
THE LAW OF HUMILITY
– What you refuse to accept, will continue for you.
– If what we see is an enemy, or someone with a character trait that we find to be negative, then we ourselves are not focused on a higher level of existence.
THE LAW OF GROWTH
– “Wherever you go, there you are”.
– For us to GROW in Spirit, it is we who must change – and not the people, places or things around us.
– The only given we have in our lives is OURSELVES and that is the only factor we have control over.
– When we change who and what we are within our heart our life follows suit and changes too
THE LAW OF RESPONSIBILITY
– Whenever there is something wrong in my life, there is something wrong in me.
– We mirror what surrounds us
– and what surrounds us mirrors us; this is a Universal Truth.
– We must take responsibility what is in our life.
THE LAW OF CONNECTION
– Even if something we do seems inconsequential, it is very important that it gets done as everything in the Universe is connected.
– Each step leads to the next step, and so forth and so on.
– Someone must do the initial work to get a job done.
– Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance,
– As they were both needed to accomplish the task.
– Past-Present-Future they are all connected…
THE LAW OF FOCUS
– You can not think of two things at the same time.
– When our focus is on Spiritual Values, it is impossible for us to have lower thoughts such as greed or anger.
THE LAW OF GIVING AND HOSPITALITY
– If you believe something to be true,then sometime in your life you will be called upon to demonstrate that particular truth.
– Here is where we put what we CLAIM that we have learned, into actual PRACTICE.
THE LAW OF HERE AND NOW
– Looking backward to examine what was, prevents us from being totally in the HERE AND NOW.
– Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, old dreams…
– Prevent us from having new ones.
THE LAW OF CHANGE
– History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.
THE LAW OF PATIENCE AND REWARD
– All Rewards require initial toil.
– Rewards of lasting value require patient and persistent toil.
– True joy follows doing what we’re suppose to be doing, and waiting for the reward to come in on its own time.
THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE AND INSPIRATION
– You get back from something whatever YOU have put into it.
– The true value of something is a direct result of the energy and intent that is put into it.
– Every personal contribution is also a contribution to the Whole.
– Lack luster contributions have no impact on the Whole, nor do they work to diminish it.
– Loving contributions bring life to, and inspire, the Whole.
(via Raven Emrys)
Hahaha, check out this YouTube video; very funny to see humans acting like dogs. It is actually interesting to consider that most people think it sweet when a dog acts like this, while they would most likely freak out if a fellow human would behave like this! 🙂
It amazes me every year; the amount of light outside here ‘up North’ at midnight around this time of year! (Ha, and the Oslo region does not even have the full midnight sun!)
Experiencing that is still on my bucket list (I crossed off the Northern Light last February 🙂 ), though I think that the trip to the true midnight sun area even more ‘up North’ will have to wait until next year; no time the coming months…it is still lovely though to come back home and be able to enjoy longgggg nights in lovely summer weather! 🙂
It is one of the oldest questions in the world; what came first, the chicken or the egg? A chicken and an egg (Kevin) took it to the test and found the answer…ROTFLMAO!!! 🙂
If you want to go through a more serious approach to ‘the’ answer, watch the 3.5 fast-talking minute animated Youtube video below in which Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown from AASP Science provide ‘the’ answer. They use use a quasi-scientific multi-angled approach to answer this nearly 2000-year-old question and teach a little about evolution, nice.
However, there is no one single answer in a world that apparently strives for complexity, so try this, this, this or this link if you want to get to the bottom of it! 🙂
My mother turns 65 today, so it is PARTYYYY time! 🙂
Hehe, every time I mention that my mother turns 65, people tell me ‘wow, you have such a young mother’…I believe this has to do with her looking so young, not me looking old! 🙂
Happy Birthday Mom, I love you!
The traditional opening of ‘my’ festival season, the Parkfeest in Oosterhout, is today! I won’t be there for the full weekend as previous years as there is a different festival setup (just Saturday evening and the full Sunday) AND, my mother’s 65th Birthday tomorrow. 🙂 The bands playing today are less known, so instead of ‘moshpitting‘ in front of the stage 🙂 , it will be the winning combination of live music ‘in the background’, ‘some’ beers 🙂 and overall good friends; a guarantee for a great party!
The FIFA World Cup Brazil starts today and kicks of a months of soccer madness and patriotisme. The best players of the world will hopefully entertain millions and millions of people with their fantastic skills. It turns out though that the best skilled players are found ‘on the streets’; see for yourself in YouTube video below…amaaaaaazing!! 🙂
Developments in various forms sustainable energy to power our modern world ‘needs’, the initiative of Solar (FREAKIN’) Roadways is one of the most interesting I have seen lately. Solar power in general rules as it has the opportunity to become one the least ‘disrupting’ forms of sustainable energy; in general I don’t understand why roofs are not build with solar panel instead of tiles…let the sun shine! 🙂
For now, enjoy the video below and keep in mind; the future is near! 🙂
Just consider this the next time you are shopping for food/meat…and take YOUR responsibility!
Ha, who wouldn’t like to have inner peace? Below you will find the ultimate guide to just that…Njoy! 🙂
I am not ready to reveal things yet, but I can say that something new is about to start! It is quite exciting and today I took the first step to make it happen in the very near future!
PompidomPCpompidom…to be continued…… 🙂
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