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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.

Angels we have heard on high

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Michaela

Love it Angels we have heard on high Angels we have heard on high Sweetly singing o’er the plains, And the mountains in reply Echoing their joyous strains. Refrain: Glo – – – – – – – – – ria … Continue reading →

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The Destroyer

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Michaela

I watched a movie yesterday which actually was not very good, but it made me contemplate on an important archetypal pair: the destroyer / creator I love archetypes. They help us to communicate beyond the conditioned or individual meaning of … Continue reading →

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Sublime beauty

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Michaela

This is just such a beautiful work of art: Botticelli’s Madonna of the Magnificat from c 1481. The work portrays the Virgin Mary crowned by two angels. The Child Jesus is keeping in a hand the pomegranate, symbol of the Resurrection. The … Continue reading →

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The core teaching

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Michaela

“The work of love is to create a window of the heart..” This is a stanza from the Rumi teaching “Open the Window” and I almost want to write it on a little post-it note to stuck it in all … Continue reading →

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It’s a small world

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Michaela

Ah, the beauty of form… Villi in a mouse small intestine (1100x)

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Open the Window

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Michaela

There is a street where the Beautiful One is known to take a stroll. When certain radiance is noticed through the latticed windows of that neighbourhood. people whisper, The Beloved must be near Listen: open a window to God and breathe. … Continue reading →

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Away in a manger

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Michaela
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In the spirit of Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Michaela

Christmas is about giving. But it is not the egoic “giving” that we encounter during the Christmas season in the Western society.  The abundance and extravagance, the gluttony and self-indulgence, the over-saturation and surfeit. There is another kind of giving: … Continue reading →

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It’s a small world

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Michaela

Can you guess what this is ? Crystallized soy sauce (16X)

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Give your Life

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Michaela

It suits the generous one to give money, but truly the generosity of the lover is to surrender the soul. If you give bread for god’ sake, you will be given bread in return; if you give your life for … Continue reading →

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