“You’re only as good as your last haircut.”-Fran Lebowitz Hey YOU! Get a Hair Cut! If you’re a long term travel junkie like me, inevitably there will come a point when you need to look decent, quit scaring the locals, and get a hair cut. Unless you cut your own hair, this can be an…
“Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment,not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.” Muso Kokushi Yes you can shape your daily reality, there I said it, and…
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, “I don’t know.”” – Mark Twain The Power of I Don’t Know Have you ever become aware of your mind the moment that it truly becomes stumped with a new situation in life? The split second where you become utterly empty, then the quick…
Comprehensive Stress Management “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” - Albert Einstein No doubt we live in stressful times, everything seems to be progressing at exponential rates. Everything except our inner being and the ability to cope with all of our demands. The stress we deal with is…
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” William Blake Living a Life in The Middle I consider myself very fortunate in the way I was raised, which was to live in two different worlds. I spent my early years living between a land of cowboy hats and ostrich boots in…
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Albert Einstein Psychological Time Management Time is invariably and indescribably an integral part of how we experience life, but beyond its utility value, should we care about it in terms of how we choose to live our day to day lives? Should I…
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” Buddha Mastering Your Mind Unless you learn to be the master of your mind, you will never find the peace of mind that you so dearly want. The mind is an amazing tool, but…
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Currently living in: South Korea
"Hello Im Ivan: vagabond, mystic in training, blogger, teacher, student of life. Welcome to my little home on the net, where I hope to share ideas and insights to help you lead a deeply fulfilling life."
This is a journey of discovering inner peace and doing work that matters, so you can live the life you truly want, and be able to share your talents with the world. Will you join me?
My site focuses on the two aspects of freedom:
1. Freedom "from": This is physical freedom, making a living doing something you love.
2. Freedom "for": This is psychological freedom, having a meditative mind, living in the moment through restful awareness.
Unless you deeply understand freedom "for", you will always take freedom "from" for granted.
I write about my experiences in: self development, traveling, living abroad, meditation, entrepreneurship, how to live simply and awesomely.
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