Wants to Meet Up
- Last login about 4 years ago
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Overview
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