“The real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself” ― Don Miguel Ruiz In a world full of self-criticism and competition, it’s quite difficult to stop and untie our…
The Crisis Of Meaning
My mental full-time job lately is neither thinking about my corporate job, my future or my private life, nor my singing gigs or my writing. I can’t change it for now and it takes a lot of my energy away. As much as exciting it is to live a life of an ancient thinker, it…
Why you have chosen to be born in your family
New Year’s Eve party. I am on stage. Dancing and singing, making different people feel good, trying to figure our their taste, singing different kinds of songs. I am smiling and looking good. 250 dancing, tipsy people look at me and smile back, they dance and embrace the magic of the new-years-eve-party night. I seem…
How to pretend to be busy
Madonna is busy. Obama is busy. All the office workers are busy. The pope is busy. Maya the bee is busy. But hell, I am really sooooooo busy*…. In the last two years I’ve had a lot of changes regarding my work and hobbies. I tried a lot of completely new things, some of them…
10 magic commitments for 2016 (and the rest of my life)
Well, an-other year comes to an end and recently I started to review all of what happened to me. I started to think about what I have done well and what went bad, what I did not do at all (although I wanted to do it), what I plan to do soon, what the status…
Sure, do more things you’re bad at!
Wow, how funny is that. When I lately tried to figure out, what it is, what I really want to do, I had very confusing thoughts. I talked to my closest friends about this topic with a bottle of red and it seemed interesting and pretty tough at the same time. We started to remember our…
5 things I learned at the Vipassana Retreat
Finally I decided to attend at the 10-Days Vipassana Retreat in Triebel. I was scared like hell, I did not know what to expect. How could I comply the Noble Silence (silence of body, speech and mind), how could I meditate 12 hours a day, how could I just remain with me and my thoughts? I…
I judge you, because I am You.
Do you often feel like sharing your deepest thoughts, but you stop yourself? Do you often want to do something you really want to, but you stop yourself? Do you often shut up, although it is about time to open your mouth? Do you often know the answer, but still keep on asking questions? Well,…