by merlelevin | Nov 11, 2011 | Life Lessons
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by merlelevin | Nov 9, 2011 | Life Lessons
Gurdjieff left these commandments to his daughter before he passed away. George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a 20th Century mystic who brought insight to psychology, philosophy, science and ancient knowledge. He also introduced the Enneagram to the West. I scan these...
by merlelevin | Nov 3, 2011 | Life Lessons
I drove out early in the morning to my sister’s place – Caledon, 2 hours out of Cape Town, and stopped at the service centre on the highway near Somerset West. When I walked in, I was warmly, smilingly, laughingly greeted by the staff filling the petrol, and the...
by merlelevin | Oct 29, 2011 | Life Lessons
Why do some people suddenly jump into consciousness? I’m thinking about this because of something that happened to me this morning. I awoke thinking strongly of a man I met 15 years ago. I have not thought about him in as much. He was a very unusual politician with a...
by merlelevin | Oct 28, 2011 | Life Lessons
I have just returned from teaching a writing workshop in Norway. It was there I discovered the newly published love letters of Norway’s much loved Fridtjof Nansen(1861-1930) – arctic explorer, author, Nobel prize winner and humanitarian – to American author and...
by merlelevin | Oct 26, 2011 | Life Lessons
I traveled back to London from Oslo late Monday night. By the time I had taken the train from Gatwick to Victoria, then the Underground for another hour, I felt exhausted. It had been a long day of travel on the heels of teaching a workshop all weekend. Then my eyes...
