I just finished reading Michelangelo’s biography. As I read it it struck me, again and again, that the reality he lived in was drastically different from the reality everyone else occupied. His ideas, believes, values, had nothing to do with those of his fellow creatures.
It brought back a subject of genius, something I thought about [...]

There are points in life when one makes a decision. Whether we are aware of it or not in this crucial moment we take a step - and this step determines the direction of our life. I have missed several of those steps/occasions in the past.
For me it was either stepping into who I am, [...]

I walked around trees this morning, listening. They are different in rain, serene, quiet.
I expected to feel the quietness from them, sleepiness almost, because they were so still. Instead I felt an incredible, indescribably powerful aliveness. It was quite amazing to feel it - the trees were so powerfully alive, more alive that I have [...]

I didn’t want to wake up yesterday. I opened my eyes and thought: “I have to get up. But why? So that I can go to work? Again?! I don’t want to go to work, I’m tired of work! Might as well stay in bed.”
Why would i feel that, I wondered as I dragged myself [...]

I walked my dog late this morning. It was about 11am and already really, really hot. Ojai is a very hot place, summers are sometimes hard for me to handle. I come from a much colder country and I don’t think I’m constructed for this level of heat - it numbs me down, saps my [...]

I find it hard, recently, to find a subject for another post. Everything seems to be part of a space, part of oneness, hard to distinguish something enough to actually write about it.
There are ways of experiencing reality, ways of relating - those can be described - but they are only one of many different [...]