Saturday, 29 March 2025

Time does not exist

 Nanne Nyander  Poems and Paintings 





The past is not just a long time ago,

 it’s also one second ago.
But the past does not exist,

 time does not exist.
So what’s the difference? 


-Nanne Nyander




Study for "Unconditional Love" by Nanne Nyander




The experience of being me is a thought. 

I’m dissolving into nothing.


-The Silence of Awareness




Friday, 21 March 2025

Sleep no more

 Nanne Nyander - Poems and Paintings



Am I trapped in a thought?

Or are thoughts trapped in me,

as an endless loop 

of nonsensical words and images?


-Nanne Nyander



Drawing by Nanne Nyander
Study for the painting "Unconditional Love" by Nanne Nyander.



Sleep no more.
I’m vigilant of thoughts coming to 

drag me away, 

drag me away, far, far away 

to the land of oblivion.
I’m standing firm and solid in reality.
The mind invites me to tag along
to the most intriguing places.
But I’m on my guard,
I’m not as gullible as I once was.
No more sleepwalking 

in the land of Oblivion. 

I’m the truth,
I’m reality,
I am Awake. 



-Nanne Nyander "The Silence of Awareness"







Friday, 14 March 2025

Endless Journey

 Nanne Nyander Poems and Paintings 





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The mind is brilliant,

but now I’m better prepared.

I know its tricks, I know not to get on the train. 

The train of thoughts can take me on an 

endless journey,

mostly to places I don’t find fascinating anymore. 

I still sometimes find myself on the train,

but now I know where the emergency brake is. 

I’d rather sit on a hill far, far away,

and just watch the trains passing by.


-Nanne Nyander





Friday, 7 March 2025

Giveaway "The Silence of Awareness"

 Nanne Nyander Poems and Paintings




The Silence of Awareness by Nanne Nyander





I will give away some copies of my new book


“The Silence of Awareness”.


If you would like to receive a copy, 


write me an e-mail and tell me 


why you think the book might 


be a book for you.


Maybe your e-mail will be one 


of the ones that gets selected.  






Write to: nannenyander8@gmail.com












Monday, 3 March 2025

Nothing Ever Happened

 Nanne Nyander




Rishikesh
Photo by Nanne Nyander, Rishikesh




Without thought,

time can no longer exist.

The illusion of time is just made up of thought. 

Does that mean nothing ever happened?

If I don’t go to thought, there is only now.

A sad feeling of losing everything,

of losing everyone, hits me like a gigantic wave.

 Being nothing in a big ocean of nothing.

 Like I’m waking up from a dream,

it’s all gone, it never did exist.

It leaves an empty feeling that lingers, 

and slowly, slowly it disappears. 

But it’s all thought.

Nothing ever happened.


-Nanne Nyander







Friday, 21 February 2025

Mistaken Identity

 Nanne Nyander




I cannot remove myself from your 

world of illusion,

but I can remove you from mine, 

by not thinking about you. 

Isn’t that amazing?  


-Nanne Nyander



www.nannenyander.se
-Photo by Nanne Nyander




A thought cannot win me over, 
but it can seem to make me drowsy,
 to make me not be on my guard. 
It’s easy to slip into oblivion, 
thinking I’m a me.
I need to be alert.
No thought can win me over,
but sometimes they seem to drug me,
 and I drift away into la-la land. 
No thoughts are me,
it’s just a mistaken identity.



-Nanne Nyander, "The Silence of Awareness"





Tuesday, 18 February 2025

War

 Nanne Nyander





Birch-nannenyander.se
Photo by Nanne Nyander



I’m here,

I feel, see, hear.

No need to analyse,

no need to commentate on everything.

Just be.

I’m here,

I feel, see, hear.

No thoughts about the past or future

is holding me imprisoned.

I’m here.

There is nothing more than here and now. 

I’m here.

No sane person would ever leave this peace. 

But we are all a little insane,

at war with everything.

Even when alone,

we battle a private war in our own heads. 

Why would we ever want to exchange 

this peace for that?

We are all so innocent,

innocently insane.

I’m here,

I feel, see, hear.

I’m here.



-Nanne Nyander




Birch-nannenyander.se
Photo by Nanne Nyander








Friday, 14 February 2025

Love


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The feeling of emptiness is filling me with love, 
love for everything.
The feeling of nothingness, embraces my being, 
like being embraced by the universe,
and embracing the universe at the same time. 
We are one, and one is all.
All is love in disguise.


-Nanne Nyander





www.nannenyander.se



In another world, another time, 
what would normal look like?

-The Silence of Awareness



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Wednesday, 12 February 2025

New Hope

 Nanne Nyander




New Hope by Nanne Nyander
-New Hope by Nanne Nyander





Hope follows me wherever I go,
but Hope is my biggest obstacle.
She keeps me focused on the future,
focused on becoming.
Despair is holding my hand,
he keeps me stuck in the past.
Hope and Despair walk hand in hand with me, 
happily distracting me from what I am, 
distracting me from reality,
inviting me to look anywhere but here and now. 
Hope acts as my friend,
Despair acts as my enemy.
Sometimes Despair feels more comforting than Hope, 
but they are the same character with different clothing. 
I’m here, I’m now,
I am reality and I have the power to turn down any 
and all invitations into the land of illusion. 
Hope is just a thought,
and so is Despair.
I alone is real.


-Nanne Nyander
- from the book "The Silence of Awareness"