“We are always the same age inside.” Gertrude Stein Do You Remember What It Was To Be a Kid? As you take a look at your daily planner, do you see a day full of meetings, presentations, conference calls, lunch dates, and getting your oil changed? Play time is no where to be seen, where did…
“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get” – Forrest Gump (editors note: orginally published on 2/01/2009) Life is Like a Box of Chocolates One of my favorite movies of all time is “Forrest Gump”, not because it’s a great story and very well made film, but because it teaches…
Free From Desire This marks my first post in a series of posts that will highlight the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching. I will be selecting some of my favorite poems and commenting on how we can apply this ancient knowledge to our lives. The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text consisting…
“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” Washington Irving by my buddie Diggy over at upgradereality.com We all have our habits that we have grown into or adopted from others, some of them good and some of them bad. What I want you to do today is to take note of how many times you…
“How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.” Anne Frank Today’s Guest Post is by one my best friends from high school Charley Silverman. What I learned as a Peace Corps Volunteer 1. To know your world, you have to see it- All too often we find ourselves constrained…
by my dear friend Debra Benton It’s true that we learn from our mistakes, but the wise young businessperson corrects his/her mistakes before they are made. What mistakes should you be weary of? I surveyed 100 CEOs to reveal the “seven career sins” that sabotage success. 1. Focusing on tasks not people. If you invest…
“How we spend our day’s is of course, how we spend our lives” Annie Dillard Enjoy Life More by Slowing Down I have been in Costa Rica over a week and I have already heard the phrase “Pura Vida” (Pure Life) several hundred times. Putting yourself in a new foreign environment allows you to see…
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"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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