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  • 62 references 42 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, German, Spanish
  • 56, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Industrial mediator
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To seek wisdom, not knowledge, Knowledge is of the past. Wisdom is of the future.

ABOUT ME

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"WELCOME" to my page.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I believe we are constantly changing, life, experience and time changes our believes or thinking and our behavior. What i am today i might not be tomorrow, we change, whether we like it or not. so best way that describes me is my references :)
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PHILOSOPHY

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ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:

* Share everything.
* Play fair.
* Don't hit people.
* Put things back where you found them.
* Clean up your own mess.
* Don't take things that aren't yours.
* Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
* Wash your hands before you eat.
* Flush.
* Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
* Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
* Take a nap every afternoon.
* When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
* Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
* Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
* And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

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I am enjoying hosting very much. I attend and promote the idea of couchsurfing meetings. I am happy to just meet also and perhaps show you around.
I have taken previous couch surfers sailing on my catamaran and in my van to various places like waterfalls and rainforests close to Brisbane, Stradbroke island , Byron bay ,Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast on my weekends and done a trip all the way to Cape Tribulation, Confest , and other festivals
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COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

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"If I think of my experiences and the beautiful moments that I live through CS, I think yes, we can give more to be better to our world, maybe we must believe in the other for belief in ourself . . . . share the culture, share the knowledge, share the life!"
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Interests

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Listining to others,bbq,s and cooking good food , good wine , good beer, good company, the ocean and scuba diving, sailing my catamaran, surfing, fishing, the beach, the bush and travelling. Salsa and Merengue dancing. Taoism, Tantra and massage .Hula hooping and fire hula hooping. Yoga.
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  • animals
  • culture
  • books
  • singing
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • wine
  • beer
  • bbq
  • yoga
  • running
  • drinking
  • politics
  • traveling
  • painting
  • drawing
  • fishing
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • sailing
  • ecology
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

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The loney planet guides, cook books, The world atlas, google earth, photography,
I watch big screen movies occasionaly .Reading educational books and watching educational video,s. I read books about ancient chinese wisdom , native american philosophy and love aboriginal dream time stories.
As far as music is concerned I like being introduced to new tunes and my taste is very deverse depending on where I am and what I,m doing.
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One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lived in a remote coastal community in eastern Arnhem land in a place called Numbalwar Numburindi eating various bush tucker foods while experiencing the oldest surving culture on this earth. I met some very amazing people there who abdopted me and gave me the totem animal of the "Lizard" with the "White Cockatoo" as my dreaming. I am still learning the complexicity of the dreaming and have accepted that fact it is a life time endeavour.

Teach, Learn, Share

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I believe in the Great Spirit, not because I can see him, but because I can see everything else!

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci.

Never lie, steal, cheat or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink to the life you will have.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. ♥ So love the people who treat you right. ♥ Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the
children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the
long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

"Laugh often, love deeply, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, and never regret anything that once made you
smile."

Ecstasy.... "Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic; it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is r...eally difficult, because you are doing something against nature"
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