CURRENT MISSION

Plus Esse Quam Simultatur.

ABOUT ME

"...I consider that if everybody were given the chance of undergoing similar experiences they would acquire a much better comprehension of themselves and others. They might also understand that humanity has changed and no longer knows how to live. As though it has gone crazy, it constantly imprisons itself in it's own myths and ambitions, rushing from one servitude to another. Man seems to be positively at pains to dehumanize himself, to abandon all that is most positive in his nature....A glance at our society is almost enough to make one long for a more primitive state of being.... What does it help us to possess all that progress has placed at our service when we have lost all sense of the meaning of things and even of life itself?"

Walter Bonatti, "The Great Days" 1971

PHILOSOPHY

"The best pace is a suicide pace, and today is a good day to die." - Steve Prefontaine

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Offer my humble space when I meet someone I wish to help.

Interests

Alpinism, free-diving, surfing, roadbiking, mountainbiking, ultra-running, swimming, triathlon, listening to music, reading, studying medicine, travelling, and some other less politically correct things as well.

• triathlon
• running
• reading
• traveling
• alpinism
• music
• surfing
• scuba diving
• swimming
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

AUTHORS-

Knut Hamsun
Fjodor Dostojevskij
Leo Tolstoj
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
Jack London
Piotr Alexejevich Kropotkin
Ernest Hemingway
Karen Blixen
Michel Foucault
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pierre Bourdieu
Henry David Thoreau

ARTISTS IN MUSIC-

The Prodigy
Nine Inch Nails
Cubanate
Dead Can Dance
VAST
tool
Tycho
Boards of Canada
Chesney Snow
The Doors
Ulrich Schnauss
Cassius
Peter Bjorn and John
Coldplay
UNKLE
cocorosie
Sneaker Pimps
I AM X
LCD Soundsystem
Chemical Brothers
D-A-D
Fischerspooner
Air
Audioslave
Soundgarden
Daft Punk
Nirvana
Depeche Mode
Ennio Morricone
Afrika Bambaataa
Manic Street Preachers
The Cardigans
Massive Attack
Portishead
The Velvet Underground
Mazzy Star
Mew
Moby
Muse
Orbital
Royksopp
Swan Lee
Creed
Familjen
Trentemöller
A Tribe Called Quest
Eric B and Rakim
Simian Mobile Disco
Axwell
Kavinsky
mstrkrft
Justice
Radiohead
The Knife
korn
Runrig
and many more

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Been interrogated by Hizbollah in Baalbek, Lebanon. Never go there.

Teach, Learn, Share

The nature of the mind,
when it is realized,
isn't something
which human speech
can grasp or give.
Enlightenment is not
something
that you get,
and the one
who understands
doesn't tell.

- Bodhidharma.

The shadows of the bamboo
sweep the steps of these stairs
but no dust is whirled into the air.
The moonlight penetrates the depths
of the pond
but no trace is left
in the water.

- Unknown Zen monk.

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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec:

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

The first condition of immortality is death.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Kenya, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Norway

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