by Brigitte van Tuijl | Dec 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last Monday, Arjen and I drove around as it was getting dark. He drove and paid attention to traffic. I didn’t have to, so I could immerse myself in the joy of looking at the lights in and on houses, trees, and hedges. I don’t care about Christmas one way or the...
by Brigitte van Tuijl | Nov 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
I used to have an ulterior motive for my interest in all things spiritual: I wanted to transcend my humanity. Humanity was, in my eyes, a failed experiment. Here we were, after all these years, still fighting, going to war, raping the planet and each other … How...
by Brigitte van Tuijl | Sep 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
What’s it like to be alive?To be deeply, fully alive?I used to think it was a state of bliss.Eternal gratitude and quiet joy. Or something like it.And sometimes, it can be like that.And then it passes.Another seeing, Another hearing,Another experience takes...
by Brigitte van Tuijl | Aug 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
You can’t ‘do’ life.You can only be it.You already ARE it.It’s only conditioning telling you otherwise.Telling you that you can manage,control,influence,make,DO things.You can’t.What you think of as ‘you’ has no control.(Even though at times, it seems that...
by Brigitte van Tuijl | Aug 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
You manage your life.That’s normal, you think.Of course you manage what you do, and when, and why.Of course you manage your money, your household, your chores.Of course you manage your schedule, your business, your work.Without this, everything would fall...
