CURRENT MISSION

The ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night

ABOUT ME

I love to learn, read, cook, eat, listen to music, meditate, meet new people, take hikes, travel, play, watch movies. I'm currently taking a few years off to live in Spain, teach English and travel around Europe. When I get back, I think I'm going to apply for a phd program in Physics.

PHILOSOPHY

I live my life to be happy. I'm still trying to figure out the route that leads in that direction, but I get the feeling being present is crucial.

“Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.” Thich Nhat Hanh

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” Buddha

"Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self." Stephen Covey

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This is the true joy in life - that being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. That being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw

"Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you." Viktor Frankl

"And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them;

And such as it is to be of these, more or less, I am. " Walt Whitman

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe." Lewis Carroll

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've stayed on a few couches but haven't hosted yet.

Interests

physics, psychology, philosophy (logic, Eastern religions), basketball, music (indie rock, jazz, afrobeat), meditation, movies, traveling, hiking

• cooking
• meditation
• movies
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• basketball
• astronomy
• languages
• logic
• physics
• psychology
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - six albums - Bitches Brew, Miles Davis. Zombie, Fela Kuti. Loaded, The Velvet Underground. Sounds of India, Ravi Shankar. For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver. In Rainbows, Radiohead. Movies- Network, Memento, Manhattan, Match Point, Blue Velvet, Adaptation, I heart Huckabees, Punch Drunk Love, The Wall, Twelve Monkeys. Books - Alice in Wonderland, The Perennial Philosophy, The Mind's I, Howl, Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada, Emotions Revealed, What is life?, 1984, Waiting for Godot, The Doors of Perception

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Iguazu Falls in Argentina and Brasil

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach - I studied Physics with a focus in astronomy, so I can teach you a little bit about the cosmos and our minuscule place in them. I speak English and Spanish, so I can help someone learning either of those languages.

Learn - I love learning new languages, so help me with that. I'm really open to learning anything new, so talk away.

Share - I meditate so that might be the most useful and long lasting skill I could share with anyone.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Peru

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Spain