“So if decline to accept your abuse, does it not then still belongs to you?” Buddha You think you are a positive person, even though inside you there is a critical voice that you always try to mute. You try to act gently and with understanding. You want to flow like water in this world, not to battle without a significant reason, not to see everywhere competetitors or enemies. You think yourself as a happy person.  And, then one day…

I know two forms of indecisiveness from self-practice; when one can’t decide for a long time and when he finally does it, his decision is made under pressure and out of time. And, when one makes a decision emotionally or impulsively, before getting or ignoring the required information. Indecisiveness has many causes that turn out to be different sides of the same coin; the coin of fear. Fear of losing, fear of pain, fear of mistake, fear of responsibility, fear of not be perfect, fear of disappointing…

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck”. Dalai Lama I can imagine at least a hundred of book titles that promise to reveal one of the biggest secrets: how to get what you want. It’s like a cake recipe. Everyone claims that have the perfect recipe, but in the end all have almost the same materials, only proportions change. The result depends upon the same factors: good materials, well-functioning devices, excellent and precise…

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck”. Dalai Lama I can imagine at least a hundred book titles that promise to reveal one of the biggest secrets: how to get what you want. It’s like a cake recipe. Everyone claims that have the perfect recipe, but in the end, all have almost the same materials, only proportions change. The result depends upon the same factors: good materials, well-functioning devices, excellent and precise performance,…

“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights”. Maya Angelou Is it a coincidence? All playwrights and novelists from ancient Greek tragedies to contemporary movies and theatrical plays use stressful and extreme events to reveal their characters. Imitating real life, writers know very well that circumstances are the triggering events to bring to light our characteristics, our dispositions. Chancy events,…

“Nothing is more fragile than the surface”. Gilles Deleuze

“Absence, the highest form of presence”. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people. Where do the black trees go that drink here?”Sylvia Plath, Crossing the WaterRed brownish tones and creamy highlights are sepia photo characteristics. It gives them an old and archive impression. Sepia was the color made by cuttlefish’s ink. It comes from the ancient Greek word for cuttlefish, “σηπία”. Sepia ink was commonly used from ancient times, by Greek and Romans, until the painters of the 19th century. In the late 19th century, an iron-silver photography…

“Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Follow me on Facebook • Google+ • Bloglovin’waterfront, thessaloniki, greece “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us”. Socrates

“We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality” Lucius Annaeus Seneca