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Inspiration

A Million Tiny Acts

Remkus wrote on 12 July, 2015 Leave a Comment

Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don’t know it. If people begin to understand that change comes about as a result of a million tiny acts that seem totally insignificant, well then, they wouldn’t hesitate to take those tiny acts. Howard Zinn

Topic: Inspiration

This Helps Me Get Perspective

Remkus wrote on 8 July, 2015 1 Comment

Whenever I feel challenged and find myself in a situation where I’m only focussed inward I quickly become aware that I need to find perspective again. You know, to look at the outside world again and get some perspective. Perspective, to me, is that one ingredient that helps me stay in touch with the grander… Continue reading »

Topic: Inspiration

I’m focusing and becoming more aware again

Remkus wrote on 9 February, 2015 2 Comments

Back in 2004, I enrolled in an NLP course in Belgium led by the wonderful Paul Liekens. Learning to understand how we translate whatever our senses pick up and how language patterns get interpreted by our mind was, and still is, one of the most important things I’ve ever learned. It’s something I use every… Continue reading »

Topic: Inspiration calm, medidation

Changing Education Paradigms

Remkus wrote on 17 December, 2013 Leave a Comment

I couldn’t agree more with Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert, about the state of our education paradigms and how they are in desperate need of changing

Topic: Inspiration Education

Why argue with this guy?

Remkus wrote on 19 October, 2013 7 Comments

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human… Continue reading »

Topic: Inspiration

Introspection with no means of diversion

Remkus wrote on 29 September, 2013 Leave a Comment

Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing… Continue reading »

Topic: Inspiration

And therein do we err

Remkus wrote on 15 September, 2013 Leave a Comment

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their… Continue reading »

Topic: Inspiration

Perfect Circumstances

Remkus wrote on 14 June, 2013 Leave a Comment

If you wonder what would be the perfect circumstances for you, look at your life right now.— Nin Sheng

Topic: Inspiration

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