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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
NOT IN ISRAEL - NOW IN BARCELONA
ABOUT ME
The tongue of a blue whale is the size of an elephant.
PHILOSOPHY
"The Other precisely reveals himself in his alterity ,not in a shock negating the I, but as the primordial phenomenon of gentleness" - Emmanuel Levinas
"Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities-his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants: physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual... Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary." -James Hillman
"Painting is like hands stuck in a mattress" -Franz Kline
"The question of maturity is not how to avoid humiliation; but rather, how one can place it so it becomes fertile.
A person that doesn't have a favourite cup must be crazy. (My friend A.R.)
"I'm only Jewish on my parents' side ;) " - Ram Dass
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche
"The pain that you carry is the love you withhold" - various
"Meditation takes away our false blindness to give us True blindness." (from zen tradition)
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Fairly new to this. My brother used Couchsurfing in his time. Am creative type. Israeli but half australian\british. I also lived there.
Also like reading, nonfiction, but if I list what I like to read I will sound too pretnetious (ok- philosophy- here you go).
I want to repay the kindness of my scandinavian hosts.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I was hosted in scandinavia.
Interests
Its not about seeing new landscapes, its about having new eyes to see with.
- folklore
- meditation
- reading
- painting
Music, Movies, and Books
These kinds of lists are very 90s...yet here we go> Bjork. Sufjan Stevens. Dogen Zenji (the japanese soto master). Abida Parveen (Classic Sufi music). Matthew Barney (video artist). Arrested Development (The TV show). Rest I guess is on my facebook profile>>
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
I've had some pretty awesome lucid dreams :-)
Teach, Learn, Share
I can only teach what I understand.