Monthly Archives: January 2011

The brave trickster

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Michaela

The attached is an interview with the British comedian Ricky Gervais, who gave a memorable performance at the Golden Globe Awards Life. There was a big row about this and people were up in arms about the reportedly offensive jokes. … Continue reading →

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Black Swan

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Michaela

Black Swan is a very unusual and very contemporary movie. I cannot remember ever having seen the discovery and gradual opening up to the possibility of living a life without the boundaries of limitations and control,in such an intensely impressive … Continue reading →

Posted in Music & Movies | Tagged surrender. letting go, Transformation | 1 Comment

Means of Life (7)

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Michaela

“Means of Life” is an inter-disciplinary approach to how everything is connected and to pin-point the difference between what we need and what we want. Addiction to food may be the reason for many chronic disturbances and diseases. We said … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening & Medicine, Means of Life, Michaela on Medicine | Tagged Chronic stress, Eating, Food, Holistic health, Metabolic syndrome, Spirituality and Medicine, Stress and disease | Leave a comment

Go deeply inside…

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Michaela

A reflection on a poem by Rilke In the past few weeks I have been reading Rainer Maria Rilke ( as you may very well have noticed by the choice of poems posted on this blog). Rilke was a serious … Continue reading →

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What is ego ?

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Michaela

A few days ago someone asked me ” What exactly is this ego, everyone is talking about” ? Indeed , it seems like we are all on a hunt to track down the elusive trickster, that villain responsible for our … Continue reading →

Posted in The Window Seat | Tagged ego, personality development, suffering | 5 Comments

Street dancing…

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Michaela

Such relentless beauty…. Thank you Lilli for finding this.

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I think I’ll walk….

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Michaela

An excerpt from the new book of the neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, who argues that brain-wave control of machines will allow the paralyzed to walk and portends a future of mind melds and thought downloads. Fascinating. Mind Out of Body Laboratory of … Continue reading →

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The witness of the moment

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Michaela

Vivian Maier was a street photographer whose work of over 100,000 prints was recently discovered. She was a extremely private person, whose past time was to walk the streets of New York and Chicago and take pictures of daily life … Continue reading →

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Not with my own breath…

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Michaela

Though I can’t express what this flirtation is, I have only Your love within my heart. If I smell a flower without Your love, set me ablaze like thorns. If ever I am quiet like a fish, make me restless … Continue reading →

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