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
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
A two year search for happiness that spanned 5 countries resulted in more than I could ever have imagined!
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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened It's no surprise that the last blog I would write before I left New Zealand was about my dog. So here it is. This is a story about Kyra. It all began in July 2013 when I picked my daughter up from her… Continue reading Kyra
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.… Continue reading Lessons from a Gypsy
I had two months until I left New Zealand, my hometown that had become so alien to me. I felt like a foreigner in my own country. I was different now. India and Nepal had changed me and I struggled to find myself back here again. As if being suspended in time and space, I… Continue reading Into the Abyss of Nothingness
She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go. She let go of fear. She let go of the judgments. She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of indecision within her. She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly and… Continue reading Letting Go
