Sundbotnen Hideaway

14/05/2026

At first it seems as though things exist outside one another. The sun is not the moon. This galaxy is not another galaxy. You are outside me. The father is outside the son. But looking deeply, we see that things are interwoven.

We cannot take the rain out of the flower or the oxygen out of the tree. We cannot take the father out of the son or the son out of the father. We cannot take anything out of anything else. We are the mountains and rivers; we are the sun and stars. Everything inter-is.
This is what the physicist David Bohm called “the implicate order".

At first we see only “the explicate order,” but as soon as we realize that things do not exist outside one another, we touch the deepest level of the cosmic. We realize that we cannot take the water out of the wave. And we cannot take the wave out of the water. Just as the wave is the water itself, we are the ultimate.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

[Art: Tomasz Alen Kopera]

14/05/2026

Human attention is among the most powerful natural forces in the universe. When an individual decides to turn his or her attention to understanding something, accomplishing something, changing something, the resources available to that individual are mobilized, and the world begins to change
— Jack Manno ~
Privileged Goods

14/05/2026

14/05/2026

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a
calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for
anything whatsoever, even if your whole world
seems upset.
~ Francis de Sales

12/05/2026

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful – as a child is – for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark.

Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

~ Faith Baldwin

[Art: Elena Wuest]

03/05/2026

Everything you see
has its roots in the unseen world.

The forms may change,
yet the essence remains the same.

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Every wonderful sight will vanish,
every sweet word will fade.

But do not be disheartened—

The source they come from is eternal,
growing,
branching out,
giving new life
and new joy.

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Why do you weep?

The source is within you,

and this whole world
is springing up
from it.

— Rumi

25/04/2026

Vase keramikk, siste prosjekt

08/04/2026

When people ask me are you happy, I’d say that isn’t quite the question. The real question is am I still growing? Have I become a finished creation? Am I dead or am I still growing? Is my life still an adventure, an adventure full of trouble, full of joy, full of pain, full of cataclysm. Am I still living dangerously? So am I still growing is the real question.

~ John Moriarty

[Art: Thierry Carrier ]