Author Archives: Michaela

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.

On addiction

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Michaela

More and more I am coming to the conclusion that the mechanism of addiction is at the core of all our suffering. It is what is keeping us in the world of illusion and it prevents us from seeing what … Continue reading →

Posted in Michaela on Medicine, The Sacred Disease | Tagged Compulsive behavior, emotions and disease, Health, letting go, Living Truth, surrender, truth | 6 Comments

Dolce far niente

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Michaela

The sweetness of doing nothing. This is the quintessential Italian receipt for being happy. Just do nothing. Sit, look, smell, taste, hear, touch – and breath. This is not being lazy, this is just being totally immersed in what … Continue reading →

Posted in The Window Seat | Tagged doing non doing, Dolce for niente | 1 Comment

One with all

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Michaela

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between … Continue reading →

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LoL

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Michaela

What are you thinking…

Posted in What's the craic ? | Tagged self esteem | Leave a comment

change is come…

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Michaela

Puscifer – Momma Sed

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Don’t go back to sleep

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Michaela

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you Don’t go back to sleep You must ask for what you really want Don’t go back to sleep People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two … Continue reading →

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The servant

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Michaela

I love this figure from “Harry Potter”. Dobby the house elf. What a nagger and what an affectionate characterisation of the servant archetype. The story is beautiful. At first we see the little house-elf completely identified with his role as … Continue reading →

Posted in Seeing myself in you | 2 Comments

Enlightenment

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Michaela

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something … Continue reading →

Posted in Eckhart speaks | 3 Comments