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This is the view from my new home on the island.

I have been asking myself; is there really a right place and a right time. I, actually, don't think so. As long as you are happy & content you constitute the quality of the place and the time.

So we search for happiness, and we try to settle where we think we find it. There is a trick here, a catch 22, you have to stay unaddicted to the circumstances that lead you to your happiness. Truely, it is not the road that matters, it is the destination.

An then there is the right people. That is a whole different story :)

I think in the end it is about finding the right rhythm. We are physically given that rhythm, the heartbeat. As long as we know how to listen to the heart we should be fine.

Currently I believe I am close to that rhythm, the results of which are this view and the right people :)

Gurdjieff

Gurdjieff believed there were four paths to follow in life, and he called his the fourth way.

The fourth way tells us to live in the now, act in the now, think in the now, and you shall achieve succesful sprituality and perhaps entlightenment, without having to go up mountains, or fast, or give up your loved ones and/or loved items.

It may be convenient for us city folk to follow the fourth path, but speaking for myself, I believe this is literally what the Tao, the Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and many others tried to signify.

Besides, there has to be a reason we were born into a materialistic world, so lets explore it and go one step at a time, decide one decision at a time, train everyday, live one moment at a time.

This Blog is a result of acting in the now. I will use it to my highest benefit, and hope that the rest of you will find a way to benefit from it, too.

Happy! Aware? Sitting in one of the smaller sized motor-boats going to the island.

The mood in the boat is crowded with amused chatter, I think it is because the island has that effect on people.
However, I am not sure they are aware of their happiness or the reasons behind it. Does it really matter?

Memories..

What is your first childhood memory? Can you really remember, or is it something that someone told you and you think it's your first memory?

On the way to the island, listening to Nirvana: 'The Man who sold the world'...

Ok People, as some of you already know, I am moving to 'Buyukada' situated off the Asian coast of Istanbul. Direct translation of the name 'Buyukada' would be 'The Big Island', Greek name 'Prinkipo'... For your convenience, and mine as well, from now on we will call it 'The Island'.

The picture above was taken on the ferry on the way to the island, I was listening to Nirvana: 'The Man who Sold the World'...