CURRENT MISSION To explore our beautiful world and meet interesting people to see, learn, understand and grow is my mission of life!! ---- MORE ABOUT ME Member at "HospitalityClub" http://secure.hospitalityclub.org/hc/travel.php?cid=amu Member at "Facebook" https://www.facebook.com/amu.ehrich Member at "last.fm" https://www.last.fm/de/user/amu28 ---- PHILOSOPHY * Live Your Dream! * * Carpe Diem! * (Horaz) * Hopes are the wings of reality.* (a little drifter) * Every man is the architect of his own fortune. * (a Roman proverb) * To live is not merely to breathe: it is to act. * (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) * The world is ours! * (a little drifter) * Distrust is a sign of weakness. * (Mahatma Gandhi) * Movement is life. Without movement life is unthinkable. * (Moshe Feldenkrais) * No adventures without destitutions! * (a little drifter & Christoph Leidig) * Why is it the hardest thing in the world, to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? * (Jonathan Livingston Seagull) * The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. * (Augustinus Aurelius) * Don't go with the flow, nor fight against it. BE the flow and carve your own riverbed! * (a little drifter) * Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security. * (Benjamin Franklin) * People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances! The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them! * (George Bernard Shaw) * Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. * (Andre Gide) * I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travelâÃâ¬Ãâ¢s sake. The great affair is to move. * (Robert Louis Stevenson) * Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. * (Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar") * Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. * (Ralph Waldo Emerson) * Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. * (Jonathan Livingston Seagull) * God give me the serenity to accept what can not be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference. * (Reinhold Niebuhr) * Dance, as though no one is watching, Love, as though youâÃâ¬Ãâ¢ve never been hurt before, Sing, as though no one can hear you, Work, as though you donâÃâ¬Ãâ¢t need the money, Live, as though heaven is on earth. * (Dschalal ad-Din ar-Rumi) * A thing is only impossible until someone does it. * (Nathan Paul) * Life is not a restaurant but a buffet, get up and serve yourself! * (Dominique Glocheux) * Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled! * (Mohammed) * Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday - you see? There is no "Someday"! (Unknown) * Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines! Sail away from the safe harbor! Catch the trade winds in your sails! Explore! Dream! Discover! * (Mark Twain) * Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. - It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. - It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing! * (Muhammad Ali) * I don't worry Whenever skies are gray above Got a pocketful of rainbows Got a heart full of love [...] * (Elvis Presley in "Got a pocketful of rainbows") * Erlaubt ist alles was SpaÃÆÃŸ macht. * * Der Weg ist das Ziel. * (Konfuzius) * Haben wir ein Leben! * (ein kleiner bummler) * Lebenszufriedenheit korreliert sehr stark positiv mit Flow. * (Young-Dal You) * Ich mach' mir die Welt, widde-widde-wie sie mir gefÃÆÃ¤llt. * (Pippi Langstrumpf) * Das GlÃÆÃ¼ck wohnt in dem Menschen, der die Wahrheit sieht. * (Sokrates) * Klugheit betrachtet die Wege zur GlÃÆÃ¼ckseligkeit; Weisheit aber betrachtet den Inbegriff der GlÃÆÃ¼ckseligkeit selbst. * (Thomas von Aquin) * [...] dein sicherer Gang, deine wahren Gedichte, deine heitere WÃÆÃ¼rde, dein unerschÃÆÃ¼tterliches Geschick. Du hast der FÃÆÃ¼gung deine Stirn geboten. HAST IHN NIE VERRATEN, DEINEN PLAN VOM GLÃÆÃÅCK - DEINEN PLAN VOM GLÃÆÃÅCK. [...] * (Herbert Gr̮̦nemeyer aus "Der Weg") * [...] Komm bleib dir selber treu, es gibt nichts zu bereuÃâôn nur die Dinge, die du hier versÃÆÃ¤umst. Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann? Wenn nicht hier, sag mir wo und wann. Wenn nicht du, wer sonst? Es wird Zeit, nimm dein GlÃÆÃ¼ck selbst in die Hand! [...] * (Die Ḫ̦hner aus "Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann?") * THRON ÃÆÃÅBER KONVENTION DAS LEBEN KOMMT VON VORN STEHST UNTER EINEM HELLEN STERN EINEM HELLEN STERN VertrÃÆÃ¤um dich in deinem Traum VerlaÃÆÃŸ dich auf Zeit und Raum Du geḫ̦rst zum festen Kern TROCKNE DIE TRÃÆÃâNEN ZIEH DEINE KREISE DER STILLE WEG FOLG DEM SONNENAUFGANG LEISE TANZ DEN TANZ AUF DÃÆÃÅNNEM EIS FORDER DAS GROÃÆÃŸE GEFÃÆÃÅHL DURCHQUER DEN HADES ZUM ZIEL SURF AUF DEM SCHEITELPUNKT DES LICHTS ERWARTE VIEL, LEBE FÃÆÃÅR DEN TRANSIT ZWING DAS WAHRE GESCHICK Ein Silberstreif am Horizont STELL DIE UHR AUF NULL WASCH DEN GLAUBEN IM REGEN Die Sintflut ist verebbt Die SÃÆÃ¼nden vergeben KEIN ERSATZ - DEINE DROGE BIST DU, BIST DU Es gibt viel zu verlieren, DU KANNST NUR GEWINNEN GENUG IST ZUWENIG - ODER ES WIRD SO WIE ES WAR STILLSTAND IST DER TOD, GEH VORAN, BLEIBT ALLES ANDERS Der erste Stein fehlt in der Mauer Der Durchbruch ist nah [...] * (Herbert Gr̮̦nemeyer aus "Bleibt alles anders") * La CLAVE C onoce gente diferente que te abra la mente L ee aquello que te ponga a volar A siste a conferencias, seminarios, conciertos, etc V iaja y metete en la salsa del lugar E xperimenta actividades que te saquen de la zona de comfort * (autor desconocido)
Interested in Soccer / Football
Fluent in German
Learning Korean
25 Vouches
Music, Movies, and Books
Music: SOUL, Motown, Swing, Gospel, Puffmusik...specially: Lionel Richie, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The O'Jays, The Bee Gees, Barry White, Wayne Newton, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Tracy Chapman, Gladys Night & The Pips, Aqualactica, and many more... Movies: "Bin-Jip" & "My Mother, the Mermaid" (Korean movies), "The Dead Poet's Society", "Cashback", "The Quiet American", Bollywood movies Books: Atlas, "The Alchemist" (Paulo Coelho), "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (Richard Bach), "FLOW - The Psychology of Optimal Experience" (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
One Amazing Thing I've Done
2002/2003 - overland trip to India: 8 1/2 months across Europe, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka & Nepal...and almost same way back 2008-2011 - trip to South America: 9 months travelling through Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia & Argentina and then back to Medellin/Colombia to live there for 2 more years 2009/Oct - Atlantic crossing from Portugal to the British Virgin Islands: first on a 42' and later on a 62' feet catamaran 2013-2014 - 3 months journey to Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & Thailand
Teach, Learn, Share
- Low Budget Traveling - Hitchhiking ...and there are some short but inspiring stories I'd like to share with you: "The Ghosts of September" (in English) http://www.allatsea.net/caribbean/the-ghosts-of-september "Allegory of the Cave" by Plato (Wikipedia - 22 languages) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (in English - full text) http://emrism.agni-age.net/english/seagull/seagull.htm "Die Möwe Jonathan" (in German - Volltext) http://emrism.agni-age.net/german/mowe/mowe.htm "Juan Salvador Gaviota" (in Spanish - texto completo) http://emrism.agni-age.net/spanish/gaviota/gaviota.htm "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann (in English) http://www.deanita.de/lieder/desid3.htm "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann (in German) http://www.humanistische-aktion.de/desidera.htm "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann (in Spanish) http://www.temasespirituales.com/2010/06/el-desiderata "Steps" by Hermann Hesse (in English) http://mindmastery.wordpress.com/2007/02/17/hermann-hesse-steps-stufen "Stufen" by Hermann Hesse (in German) http://www.gedichte.vu/?stufen.html "Der Geschmack des Lebens" (in German) http://www.carp.de/berichte/sonstiges/347-der-geschmack-des-lebens.html "Der Palast der Großen Kunst oder Ich Übe aber Es Spielt" (in German) http://www.es-spielt.de/Palast.pdf "Augenblicke" (in German) http://laecheln.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/wenn-ich-mein-leben-noch-einmal-leben-konnte-jorge-luis-borges/ "Arme Leute" (in German) http://www.lichtkreis.at/html/Gedankenwelten/Weise_Geschichten/arme_leute.htm
My Interests
- LIVING - TRAVELING - Football - Music - Food