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  • 59 references 29 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Creole, English, French, Spanish
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • enjoying life
  • engineer ; teacher ; therapist
  • From Miramas en Provence, near Marseille, south east of France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to set up my own business in solar energies... buy a boat within 3 years

ABOUT ME

go forward - fast forward

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Contemplative & adventurous
Shy & extraverted
Imaginative & realistic
Hobo & smart

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I intensively explore life's experience.. It has been quite anarchic and hard during quite a long time. Now.. i've left many things, fears, hopes and .. there's always some illusions left for sure but i'm feeling free : living in a world real and amazing .. that's the magic !
Since i decided to realize my dreams, simply step by step, (live in Spain, change my professional orientation, travel a lot), days may be hard or pleasant it doesnt really matter, the important is to grow through life.
------Bla bla bla... "Old" description, so true & so false at the same time... Lets say just playing with the Illusion ("Maya" or "Samsara" ?) ;)
--- Waiting at the moment to see what direction is gonna take my life.. job, where to live for the next few years, etc.

PHILOSOPHY

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march 2006 . Everything exist. Everything is possible.
Everyone do his best with what she/he is or has to learn/realize down here.
What's important is not what happens to you but what you do with it.

Nor material nor spiritual, live's a magical mix of both !

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july2006 . dont think no more, follow your sensations&instinct, let you be surprised, welcome what's coming ; give and search the good with any situation & people ; you're the only one to know what's good for yourself, so do it ; be innocent like a child, strong as a lion, sweet as the early sunrise

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april 2007 - tribute to the new ancestor - in any situation face it with a frank look and a transparent presence, this kind of way of being that make you act without really being here... lets make it simple: just disconnect the little "i" damn hell! ahahah! dont worry everything gonna be alright, you got a highspeed connection with the Universe... go through your fears, that's where lay your deepiest answers. like an air pocket... after the turbulence your may enter in other dimensions of your life. go ahead, challenge your dream, test your vision, that's a nice way to keep awaken and alive all life long... last ancient i buried was incredibly young, an incredible anachronic lady of 93y.o... a master.. bon voyage.

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august 2008
Whenever people think it's alright i still think
there's something else... Whenever people try to think
better again i try to stop thinking, breathe, connect
and let this mouth speak on its own. Illusion is of no
pleasure but pleasure need illusion, that's maybe why
people are other. Most people dont live their life,
true, that is the expression of their dream about
their own life. If ever they'd manage to leave their
life they would live for real.. i.e. if they'd leave
their dream, they would enter in their life for real.
People without principle is of no worth, but value is
to be find beyond principles. Value is met when
someone met her/himself, some call them 'awake'.
Everything exist, you may look for/believe in anything
in the world, he would always offer it gently...

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oct 2008

go forward - fast forward

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march 2010

to settle without becoming stuck in still life..

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november 2013

whatever works, be/do/enjoy

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

hosting, gesting, seeing as much people as i can, being a butterfly in the CS effect...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

lots some times ago, hosting/guesting
less last times as im having lots of work todays
dont hesitate in contacting me, i'll do the best to help

Interests

Life. Wind. People. Tongues. Food. Travels. Hichhicking. Wandering. Liberty. Music. Joy. Nature. Moon. Firecamp along a riverbank. Psyche. Dance. Adventure. Energies. Both sides of the mirror. Archetypes. Shamanism. Trees. Sunsets.

  • dancing
  • environment
  • dining
  • meditation
  • boating
  • traveling
  • magic
  • music
  • business

Music, Movies, and Books

Films : Jonathan Livingstone, An unconvinient truth, Catch me if you can, High Fidelity, American Beauty, Fight Club, No man's land, Black Cat White Cat, Underground, Save the last dance, Lost in translation, The Game, Skulls, Emperor's Clubs, La belle verte, Le coeur des hommes, Le gout des autres, Embrassez qui vous voudrez, I married a strange person (Bill Plympton), The Game, Volver, Himalaya, Shine, Roger Rabbit, Beaumarchais l'impertinant, Vendetta, King's speech -----Music : Sgt Pepper', maloya, any Balkan music, arabic music, rock, protest songs, french songs (Brel & Brassens.. good oldfathers), a long time ago trip hop, surely ska & reggae, ... Screamin Jay Hawkins, Janis J, King Crimson, Greenday a lot some time ago, Pixies, the Clash, K´s CHoice, Pink Floyd, Asian Dub Fondation, Natalia M.King, Tulku, Ojos de Brujo, Bebe, sUBLIME, Idir, Tinareewen, Chambao, Amadou et Maryam, aLI fARKA tOURE, Alela Diane, Kinks, sQuirrel Nut zippers, otherz

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

yes :¬) many many many...

Teach, Learn, Share

Little things i've humbly learned little by little.. Or by boring studying years, or by passion, or by direct experience.
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How things are producted in mass industry, capitalistic logics.
How the human activity - including the ugly indutrials&commercials that at the same time make us communicate by internet & massively travel.. - do impact environment & climate, which may be these changes as far as we know.
How to breathe, relax and meditate.
How to get into relation with natures.
Some elements of human mind structure (NLP&AT), and -by try&fail- some traps on the path of a searcher.
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Oral exchange about these subject without pretention of mastering any truth, im sure you'll teach me more than i can transmit you ;¬)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, India, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Maldives, Mauritius, Monaco, Poland, Réunion, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, French Guiana, Réunion, Spain

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