Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the Truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being ahead of your time. If you're right and you know it, speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the Truth is still the Truth.… Continue reading India’s Secret
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Returning to India
Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake. ~Suzy Kassem~ Just when I thought I was finally going to settle down, the universe had other plans for me. I had been in Whangarei for only a couple of months and I had managed to set up my own yoga… Continue reading Returning to India
Awakening
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society Jiddu Krishnamurti. After weeks of wondering what to write now that I wasn’t traveling, I was finally hit with a spark of inspiration. With my life purpose now more clear than ever, I was finally doing what I had set… Continue reading Awakening
Falling in Love
A two year search for happiness that spanned 5 countries resulted in more than I could ever have imagined!
A Pot of Gold
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Kahlil Gibran. The decision was made. After almost two years of traveling, two years of constant movement, the comings and goings, the joy… Continue reading A Pot of Gold
Enlightening Realisations
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus. Byron Bay had become like a bind around my neck and I found myself trapped in a vicious cycle of survival of the fittest. In some ways, I was sold the idea of a nice lifestyle… Continue reading Enlightening Realisations
To Build a Home
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever… Continue reading To Build a Home
Byron Bay Bound
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde. Two weeks was all that was standing between the goal I had set one and a half years ago. I had come full circle and I felt I was finally ready to step into what I had… Continue reading Byron Bay Bound
Returning to the Land of the Long White Cloud
Courage is a love affair with the unknown Osho As I stepped through the arrival gate at Auckland International Airport, I was hit by a heat wave, and the ecstatic face of my daughter peering at me from behind the railing. We hugged tightly and I was overcome with emotion. I hadn’t seen her in… Continue reading Returning to the Land of the Long White Cloud
Wanderlust in Hong Kong
Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling Roman Payne, The Wanderess As the plane hit the tarmac, I was excited to explore Hong Kong during a 13-hour transit between Nepal and New Zealand. Rather than spending all day in the airport, I had pre-booked… Continue reading Wanderlust in Hong Kong