{"id":47808,"date":"2022-09-05T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T12:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47808"},"modified":"2022-09-05T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T12:50:13","slug":"just-another-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/09\/05\/just-another-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Just another reminder."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Can life really be simple?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s life, period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because it\u2019s life, and it’s thoughts, and things, and dreams, and changes, and instability, and chronic unpredictability, and all kinds of surprises and illnesses and viruses and tsunamis and earthquakes and mad Russian dictators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it depends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can BE both, but not at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes life seems incredibly simple and straightforward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And sometimes it\u2019s more like a cruel, loud, and unsolvable puzzle that constantly needs our attention while we\u2019re stumbling around in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess most of us are looking for moments where simplicity strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although it\u2019s not, per se, that we\u2019d call it that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We talk about success, freedom, confidence, joy, happiness, belonging, peace of mind, or some sort of stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sense of being unshaken, unscathed, and untouched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An intrinsic safety based on natural trust, as a result of the thing we THINK we want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that IS simplicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beauty is simplicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love is simplicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being is simplicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning I read some pages in a random spiritual book, that pointed out that life is only always exactly what happens, and nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suffering is in the resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the not-wanting what is, the refusal of reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve EVER been involved in any kind of spiritual movement or idea or book, you must have come across this observation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And maybe it touched you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe something shifted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it made sense on a deep level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People always write and speak about surrendering, letting go, and grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If from now on you\u2019d never again feel any resistance towards anything that happens in your life, a tremendous amount of freedom would be your sweet reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019d accept EVERYTHING 100%, all the time, there\u2019d be nothing left but flow and flow and more flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s so obvious that it almost hurts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s insultingly simple, and it\u2019s also the hardest thing in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know what I’m talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes we just see this, and we know, we KNOW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a minute, maybe half an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then the mind, our personal complexity machine, will start up again, chopping up what\u2019s essentially one, clouding what\u2019s basically clear, and creating havoc where there\u2019s nothing but stuff, happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes we see that the complexity is actually part of what\u2019s so simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we just stop trying to solve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How glorious to find out that life still goes on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Photo by @vlado, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can life really be simple? Well, it is. It\u2019s life, period. And it isn\u2019t. Because it\u2019s life, and it’s thoughts, and things, and dreams, and changes, and instability, and chronic unpredictability, and all kinds of surprises and illnesses and viruses and tsunamis and earthquakes and mad Russian dictators. It\u2019s both. And it depends. It can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[99,102,97,117,100,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47810,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47808\/revisions\/47810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}