Author Archives: Michaela

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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.

You don’t have to understand life

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Michaela

It is a special treat to listen to Rilke’s words. This is from a reading of the great Viennese actor Oskar Werner. Du musst das Leben nicht verstehen Du musst das Leben nicht verstehen, dann wird es werden wie ein … Continue reading →

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Only in our doing can we grasp you.

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Michaela

Only in our doing can we grasp you. Only with our hands can we illumine you. The mind is but a visitor; it thinks us out of our world. Each mind fabricates itself. We sense it limits, for we have … Continue reading →

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LoL

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Michaela

The need to label what we feel…

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What I always have wanted to ask…

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Michaela

This is a new category based on an idea from Marta. A question will be posted asking for input and counsel regarding a specific challenge. Please use the comment section for your response. Q5: Where are we going, when we … Continue reading →

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The Tao is the Way

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Michaela

Verse 23 is about true intimacy and being at one with all things. To be at one with all things requires to lower the guard and open up fully and completely. Embrace life with everything it has got and take … Continue reading →

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Vulnerability is necessary

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Michaela

A researcher learning to live from the heart.

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Means of Life (5)

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Michaela

In many ways, food has become an obsession in our society. As we have established, food intake is regulated by the bodily functions of hunger and satiety, as well as influenced by appetite, that is an indicator which type of … Continue reading →

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In the face of tragedy

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Michaela

‘You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations – to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless. Already we’ve seen a … Continue reading →

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Eve after the Fall

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Michaela

Auguste Rodin’s primary subject and source of inspiration was the human body, from simple studies to penetrating portraits to depictions of human passion and suffering–continually shocking the public with his sensual subject matter and frequent fragmentation and abstraction of the … Continue reading →

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Means of Life (4)

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Michaela

So we have established now, that eating is a human need. The body, this living, breathing, vibrating, beautiful living organism is made of the dancing particles of all matter, and renews itself constantly. The body is at all times a … Continue reading →

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