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English translation below
“Il y a une façon de marcher qui fait de nous des touristes, une façon de marcher qui fait de nous des randonneurs, une façon de marcher qui fait de nous des pèlerins. Il ne s’agit pas d’opposer l’un à l’autre. Marcher comme un touriste, c’est peut être marcher sur l’écorce de la terre; marcher comme un randonneur, c’est connaître la sève de ce monde, entrer dans cette sève, ce mouvement, dans cette énergie même de l’univers et revenir le soir avec les senteurs de la nature, les sons de la forêt, la beauté des paysages. Marcher comme un pèlerin, c’est marcher avec le souffle qui donne vie à la sève, avec ce qui nous anime et nous permet de nous tenir droit dans la lumière.”
– Jean-Yves Leloup
Free English translation
“You can walk like a tourist, like a hiker or like a pelgrim. The goal is not to oppose one to the other. Walking like a tourist is possibly walking on the crust of the earth; walking like a hiker is knowing the energy of this world, entering in this energy, this movement and come back in the evening with the odors of nature, the sounds of the forest, de beauty of the landscape. Walking like a pelgrim is walking with the breath that gives live to the energy, with what is animating us and allows us to hold ourselves upright in that light.
– Jean-Yves Leloup
I would like to draw the parallel with the 5 Rythms of dancing (see interesting sites) :
Flow, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrics, Silence
They also represent a different way or depth of being. All 5 can be interesting to us depending on the situation that we are in. The goal is to play with them and to adapt them to our current situation.
“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”
– John R. Wooden
Also interesting is his pyramid of success see http://www.CoachJohnWooden.com
“Mindfulness is kijken in de spiegel. Met gesloten ogen. Kijken naar jouw denken, je gedachten. Ze zien en er niet in mee gaan. Zitten en kijken binnenin. Je emoties voelen, zonder erin de verdrinken. Ze omhullen, zonder ze te verdringen. Je lichaam voelen, weten hoe het voelt. Opmerkzaam zijn voor al wat er is in jou. Met aandacht hier, nu, helemaal.”
– Mindfulness voor kinderen, Pim Catry en Jan Decuypere
Free Englisch translation :
“Mindfulness is looking in the mirror. Eyes closed. Looking at your thinking, your thoughts.
Seeing them and not going along with them. Sitting and looking within. Feeling your emotions, without drowning in them. Enwrapping them, without suppressing them. Feeling your body, knowing how it feels. Observing everything that is in you. With attention here, now, entirely” – Mindfulness voor kinderen, Pim Catry en Jan Decuypere
I take care of myself. I defend what I find most important.
That goes for personal, family matters but also for professional matters.
This WE I really felt like walking in the close-by forest. It was a wonderful sunny automn day…
Only my daughter and husband did,’t feel like it. Finally we went but after a short while I felt that it was against their will and we decided that I would be walking and they would be picking me up when I was full of it. I enjoyed it so intensely. I deliberately got lost twice as I followed my gut feeling to take the paths that felt the most ‘inviting’ ones. And you know what I finally arrived at a place where it was very easy to pick me up. I decided though that I would walk all the way home. Just feeling happy, proud, enjoying it.
For what the professional part is concerned I have been proposed 2 international projects. In my selection proces I am very clear about the fact that I am not looking forward at all to travel around the world. Also I take my time to discuss the content, possible roadblocks, etc… by speaking to stakeholders and my network. I am proud about my maturity in this approach.
I intend to enjoy every second of my life : )
Inner strength 
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