life lessons

1. You are here to spread love. What is love? Not judging others, not helping others. Love is invoking Spirit where needed. Be Spirit’s eyes and channel on earth and tell it where love is necessary. 2. Give your children and your friends and your family love, attention, joy and boundaries. Give it abundantly, and do not…

system magazine

Some old tricks are here to stay. Thought I was done with filming and glamour and fashion until my dear friend Annemarieke van Drimmelen asked me to edit this film with her. And guess what, I loved working with moving image again, with my friend, dusting of old skills. So here is the result, a beautiful…

caught up in ego

It is happening. Oh yes it is and like the Peter Pan story begins: it all happened before and it will all happen again. The ego trap. I fell in it. For days I’ve been so in-content, obsessed with my weight, what I deserve, what went wrong, worrying about little things, lack of concentration, exept for the…

sally mann

It has been weeks in the city again and by now I am marinated in other peoples thought, feelings and struggle. Longing for time in nature, to ask the trees and the earth and the birds and the sky to help me heal. Tomorrow morning to the unspoiled woods of Germany and in just two…

tracks

Dear God, give me a camel and set me free. Sitting behind my laptop 12h a day working my ass off with a plane whooshing over my head every two minutes in jeans too tight to breath because they look so pretty, calling it life. I’m loving your book and loving you. Robyn Davidson , for pushing exactly those…

surrender II

I realize this whole blog is about surrender. You can call it the simple life, the truth, love, gratitude, inspiration, motherhood, creativity, name it what you like, it’s another colour of life and impotent if you don’t fully surrender to it. Believe in it. Trust it. Give your life for it. I think that’s the hard core of…

secret

“At the center of this story there is a terrible secret, a kernel of cyanide, and the secret is that the story doesn’t matter, doesn’t make any difference, doesn’t figure. The snow still falls in the Sierra. The Pacific still trembles in its bowl. The great tectonic plates strain against each other while we sleep…

house hold chores

I wrote a piece for Happiness magazine about finding the spirituality in house hold chores. Oh yes baby, there’s nothing more spiritual than soap & water!  

the school of life – new dates!

This fall there will be three opportunities to attend my class about succes at The School of Life Amsterdam. During this afternoon together we will explore our cultural myths about success and failure and start to form our own ideas about what a successful life looks like. More information and tickets here! “Try not to become…

surrender

“Life’s a river. You can try and swim against it and you will get exhausted and stuck in the same place forever. If you let yourself be carried away by the stream you will hurt yourself and have no say in what happens. So learn to swim with the current, use its strength and power…

anaïs again

Make this every single human being’s mission and there shall be peace for this planet.

to include

Recently my father travelled to Mongolia for work. That week every morning I woke up with some of these pictures in my inbox. It ignited a deep longing inside of me to feel the heartbeat of the earth. Like an addict I dream, I crave of lying on that hard dusty soil and hearing her breath….