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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.

Means of Life (10)

There comes a time you leave it to the master… I happened to come across a lecture from Carolyne Myss today and she is putting it all together, much better and much more profoundly than I can ever dream of … Continue reading

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Form is Emptiness; Emptiness is Form

The phrase “form is emptiness; emptiness is form” is perhaps the most celebrated paradox associated with Buddhist philosophy. It is the supreme mantra. The expression originates from the Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutra, commonly known as the Heart Sutra, which contains … Continue reading

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Oh come and go

Oh come and go. You, almost a child still, complete for a moment the dance-move into the pure constellation of those dances in which dull orderly nature’s transiently overcome. Since she was stirred to total hearing only when Orpheus sang. … Continue reading

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Means of Life (9)

“Means of Life” is an inter-disciplinary approach to explore how everything is related  and to pin-point the differences between what we need and what we want. Hunger We are in the middle of an enormous global food crisis – the … Continue reading

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Old world, or New Earth

So what do you think…? There is some indication of New Earth thinking, isn’t it ? An athlete ( well, time does matter in the instance of ski racing), determination, talent,overcoming obstacles with tenacity, precision, accuracy…nothing wrong with it, or … Continue reading

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Songs of Unknowingness

Come down among us, be one of us lovers, So that we may open up to you the gate to the garden of love. Come reside in our own house like a shadow, for we are neighbors to the Sun … Continue reading

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We tried to do something

“We got a message from Tunis,” Hosam Khalaf, a 50-year-old engineer stopped me to say. “And the message was: Don’t burn yourself up; burn up the fear that is inside you. That is what happened here. This was a society … Continue reading

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Fear of Flying

A few years ago I took a flight from New York to Europe, and soon after the plane started to cross the Atlantic, we ran into choppy turbulences. It was a really bad flight, the plane tossed about by rapid … Continue reading

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Old world or New Earth

GM and the awakening spirit…this ad has an interesting feel to it. Kids turning their back and listen to a boy spreading his arms like Jesus on the cross. The message is all in black and difficult to make out. … Continue reading

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O long for the flame…

Will transformation. O long for the flame, where a Thing escapes you, splendid in change: that designing spirit, master of what is earth, loves only the turning-point in the form’s curve, What closes itself, to endure, already freezes: does it … Continue reading

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