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Take the time to write and read the book of your life.

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Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

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The story of the intellectual triumph of becoming one with the world and dissolving the ego, and on the other hand a human and emotional failure in love and relationships.

The book illustrates the dilemma between the attachments of connections versus the unconnected and lonely soul . Emotionally bound or free and lost. Nothingness is just nothingness. Life is somethingness.

Reconcile all of the book’s chapters: become one with the universe, one with others, with loved ones and with the periods of one’s life.

What makes the Buddha compelling is not that he finds peace and becomes one with the world but his journey to get there and his feelings at that very point.

What happens to Hermann Hesse’s Glass Bead Game, the sum of human learning, with the advent of AI? Is the mystery gone, or will it live on in a world of superintelligence?

The teachings of Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse: life is change and a succession of chapters, experiences is living, allow love for it matters more than anything, and finally find oneness with the world to confront death.

Everyone can find their way - their enlightenment - there is not one way

The Alchemist

Paolo Coelho

A mediation about love and life

Purpose, a life calling, is available to all of us.

It’s a matter of becoming aware of it and wanting to then fulfill it.

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All is connected in time and space.

My “Personal legend”

Understand the world, explore the world 

Share and communicate my understanding of the world 

Live life, experience existence and change 

Love, oneness  

Create life, children 

Know that the world is one 

Know that life is existence and change 

Know that life is living and becoming 

Know that life’s greatest energy and expression is love 

Love creates life, a future: children, continuity, expansion

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 “The Caravan of life”  

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To fulfill your personal legend you have to be willing to travel, change, discover, take risks, and you will have to make investments, paying for the trip.  

The shepherd is willing to seek, travel, discover - happy to invest to fulfill his personal legend.  

Others can access their personal legend but many aren’t willing to change, to take risks, to travel and seek. 

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The advent and possibility of ideas, intuitions and signals on our life journey are present all the time, everywhere. It is for you to be open to seeing and hearing them, and interpreting them. Listen to the universe talk to you.

Go deep and listen to yourself and the world. All that you need is there.

The King is a messenger, a transmitter, just like omens or signs.

Omens from the desert: Signs that you have to work with what the world gives you, which is what you see and hear. Listen to the universe for the world to help you.

Your life's calling will reveal itself to you through your actions and your seeking. The voyage and the experience are the real rewards.

Every person, every life, every heart can follow the path to their personal legend, to their happiness, but most give up as it requires courage, tenacity, and patience. It is your life when you pursue your treasure, the life that could be yours.

Life is generous to the ones who are open and themselves giving. Those who are kind with love and in life. Material goods are an expression, an energy, but not the true manifestation of riches.

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

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Life itself is a continuous tension between the will to power, the will to live, the existentialist drive versus a more open, enabling and Taoist attitude. The answer isn’t a balance between those two but a continuous dynamic between them, their constructive interaction.

Taoism = freedom 

With freedom you become an existentialist 

As an existentialist you have to stream with/into the Dao, and so it goes, round and round

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Taoist adaptability is more valuable than the Nietzschéen will to power

You must be one with the world, accept change and go with the currants's flow - that's the Taoist teaching.

Life requires energy (Qi), and it is manifested in the way (Dao) it is lived. We may have energy and tools without knowing the way. We need a philosophy for our technology.