Adventures of a Wandering Soul
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
A two year search for happiness that spanned 5 countries resulted in more than I could ever have imagined!
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
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
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
In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again,… Continue reading As I’m Leaving
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away Author unknown Rubin knew how much I wanted to go trekking, and despite his concerns of not being able to find affordable transport, he woke up one morning and said let's go! After spending a… Continue reading A New Year at Sunrise in the Himalayas
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it so often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments- but all of this is transitory, it leaves no permanent mark.… Continue reading Wedding Bells and Christmas Sweets
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country Anais Nin Nepal was in the grips of a humanitarian crisis. Blockades at the Indian border since the new constitution had restricted petrol, cooking gas,… Continue reading Nepalese Dreams
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk As the plane hit the tarmac I was relieved to be back on solid ground. It had been a bumpy ride through the mountain ranges and 26 hours of travelling, with an 11- hour transit in Hong Kong had… Continue reading Life in Nepal
