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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, French, Hungarian, Russian; learning German, Italian
  • 60, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Financial Industry
  • Graduate Degree
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty

ABOUT ME

Cosmopolitan and Spiritual

1. - Born and raised in Europe

2. - Previous work in academic environment

3. - Dance and outdoors and yoga

4. - Reading classics (still)

5.- Interested in Eastern philosphies

PHILOSOPHY

I share my personal philosophy with Mother Teresa:
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am looking forward to meeting up with strangers from all walks of life

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I never managed to get a couch confirmation!

Interests

- Volunteer work (teaching)
- Dance fan (ballet, burlesque, some social dances)
- Interest in popular science

  • humanities
  • beauty
  • dancing
  • ballet dancing
  • environment
  • yoga
  • reading
  • volunteer work
  • outdoor activities
  • teaching
  • science
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

- Hesse: Siddartha
- Bulgakov: Master and Margarita
- Rovinton Mistry: Fine Balance
- Paramahansa Yogananda: Autobiography of a Yogi
- Richard P. Feyman: Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
- Richard P. Feynman: What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Richard P. Feynman: QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
- Fritjof Capra: The Tao of Physics
- Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu
- Tolstoy: War and Peace
- Bantock: Griffin and Sabine Trilogy
- Kundera: Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Sutta Pitaka (Buddha's teachings)
- Zohar
- Book of Revelations

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- I had the opportunity to visit India and participate at a yoga teacher training.

Teach, Learn, Share

This section is a work in progress:
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Buddha)

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Fear is the path to the dark side:
Fear leads to anger,
Anger leads to hate,
Hate leads to suffering (Yoda from Star Wars)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Profound conversations

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