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About Michaela

I am a wanderer and a wonderer, like you are. I love our journey and to walk in the company of friends – to learn, experience, share, laugh, cry and above all I simply love this marvelous, magical, mysterious life. I have no plan (cannot believe I am saying this) and my only intention is to be truthful to myself and others.

Be still and the answers will come

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Michaela

    Be still and the answers will come. This is true every time and has replaced the obsessive thinking and scouring the brain for solutions, just to make the expectations fit – not the situation at hand. The answers … Continue reading →

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To end suffering

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Michaela

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now. Eckhart Tolle

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Biology of Zen

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Michaela

This Zen Biology Lesson for Enlightenment is really neat. Enjoy….

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Can’t you see the mighty warrior ?

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Michaela

How often you ask, What is my path? What is my cure? He has made you a seeker of Unity, isn’t that enough? All your sorrow exists for one reason – that you may end sorrow forever. The desire to … Continue reading →

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All is fair in love and war

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Michaela

The archetypal warrior is often mentioned in relation to the spiritual path. Did you ever ask yourself why that is ? The spiritual path is not for the faint-hearted. The truth about who we really are is about nothing or … Continue reading →

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Be ahead of all parting

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Michaela

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it all will your heart … Continue reading →

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Just too painful…

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Michaela

In the past few years I have had several encounters with people who showed symptoms of Hysteria. Hysteria is not a disease, much rather it is a state of mind, signified by uncontrollable emotional excess. To be “hysteric” in the … Continue reading →

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Drop the baggage and dance

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Michaela

  ‘Just to be in your presence is the point of my life, cooked and drowned, nothinged, nowhere. Someone who has not dissolved still loves places. But you say, Leave. There is no place for you.’ (excerpted from Rumi’s poem … Continue reading →

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Addiction and Presence

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Michaela

We are all addicted. Addiction bears the handwriting of the ego. It takes a desire, a fixation, and it builds a stronghold around it. The energy of addiction is directed outward and it’s purpose is distraction. Distraction from all that … Continue reading →

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Simple gifts

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Michaela

This is simply beautiful.. Simple gifts ‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free, ‘Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, ‘Twill … Continue reading →

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