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
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
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
They were from two different worlds. Two entirely different people. But upon their coming together, they created. They found their own path and together they had their own world and in their own world, they were the same. Everyone else outside of it, everyone else was over there. Away. And they together, they together were… Continue reading One Night in Kathmandu
Love and compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion. Dalai Lama X1V We begun our 7 hour journey from Shimla, our longest car ride yet, to our final destination in the North. Daramshala is most famously known as the home of the… Continue reading Dharamshala to Amritsar
