mariakatariina (@mariakatariina) • Hey
mariakatariina (@mariakatariina) • Hey
Publications
- ”Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage” Anaïs Nin
Thinking back the greatest blessings in my life have been a result of having courage to follow my inner voice.
- Tuna sashimi 😋!
- There is indescribable magic in summers in Finland. Blooming nature, nightless nights and calm lakes bring me to the essence of life.
This picture is taken from our summer house in little island middle of the lake, where time seems to stop.
- “Be formless, shapeless, like water” Bruce Lee
Water is known for its ability to adapt any situation and overcome obstacles with ease. Flowing is when you’re like water, moving effortlessly without resisting.
Like water, we too can become versatile, resilient and ever flowing.
- “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there” ❤️
Rumi
- I got to try kitesurfing yesterday for the first time. So much fun that I booked the next class 🤩🎉!
- Superfood salad! 🤩
- Amazing architecture of Louvre Abu Dhabi. Definitely worth a visit if ever in UAE!
- Just chilling 😀❤️
- GM! This week we are participating to Token2049 conference in Dubai (the largest crypto event of the year)
LFG!💪🎉
- Beautiful Toucan in green planet Dubai. 🌳
I don’t support zoos but here most of the animals are rescued and can be free in common areas. ☺️
- I try to follow Mediterranean/blue zone diets 🙏 These diets have been linked to longevity and better health.
- “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees”
Rainer Maria Rilke
In western science, from Plato onwards, we’ve separated ourselves from nature. Being only observers, we miss the mystery. We are all part of this.
- “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees”
Rainer Maria Rilke
Living organisms have much more intelligence than we give it value for. In western science, from Plato onwards, we’ve separated ourselves from nature. Being only observers, we miss the mystery. We are all part of this.
- “If we surrendered to the earth’s intellegence, we could rise up rooted like trees”
Rainer Maria Rilke is an amazing poet. I wish I could read him in his original language, German.
- “You can easily judge a character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him” Goethe
We live in such a transactional world that it is easy to forget that true acts of love are done without expectation of return.
- Açai bowl is the most important meal of the day 😛
- Morning 9k run in Dubai! In Dubai you have to go for a run before 7am or after 6pm due to the heat 😛
- GM! Morning meditation view in Dubai 😍 Sound of waves is so grounding and calming.
- Books are my lifeline 🙏 What book would you recommend?
- Books are my lifeline 🙏 What’s your favourite book?
- “He who cannot obey himself, will be commanded. That is the nature of things”
Nietzsche often talks about how man is something that must be overcome.
I think the first steps are being true to ourselves and keeping ourselves in the highest accountability for our own life.
- Morning run in the sunrise 🌅 If you win the morning you win the day 💪
Hope you have a great start for the week!
- GM and beach please! 😎
- ”To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour” William Blake
- Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favourite books - full of wisdom written in a story. Some of my favourite quotes from the book:
”Nowadays people know the price of everything and value of nothing. ”
”To define is to limit.”
”There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”
- If I had one food to eat rest of my life, it would be sushi/sashimi in different forms 😀
- Happy Women’s Day! I have an idea - what if this women’s day we give the women in our life time and peace to do something they love? It might be time to take care of themselves, exercise, read etc. Something that she is passionate about but somehow can’t find time. 🙏
These days women are often so occupied taking care of needs of the workplace and home that they don’t take time for themselves. Giving women that time, will have positive impact on the world 🌿
- My balcony 🌳
- According to Patanjali yoga sutras the original context of yoga was spiritual development practices to train the body and mind to self observe and become aware of their own nature.
The purposes of yoga were to cultivate discernment, awareness, self-regulation and higher consciousness in the individual.
- How many random things (such as vegan bacon) you can add to a toast? This was a superb brekkie anyways! 😍
- Gaudi’s designed Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona shows how human innovation and artistry has no limits. Gaudi drew his inspiration mostly from the nature. He has said that ”originality consists in returning back to origin”. Nature has always been the muse for humans.
- My love Stella ❤️😍 She is listening the rain and lightnings in the balcony. Fearless girl! ⚡️
- ”Have you ever looked at a tree without a single word of like or dislike, without a single image? What then takes place? Then, for the first time, you see the tree as it is. You see the beauty of it, the colour, the depth, the vitality of it” Khrishnamurti.
I encountered this beautiful tree in Lisbon. How often we walk by trees without paying attention to the effortless beauty and depth? This tree has been around over 100 years and is still standing gracefully, bringing joy to those who are open to see.
- Committing to meditation practice in the morning has been life changing for me. It has not always been easy but it sets the tone for the day. Jiddu Khrishnamurti said: ”When you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
Do you practice meditation? ☺️
- Happy Valentine’s Day to you all! I hope you are able to send loving kindness to loved ones and every person you encounter 🌹❤️
- Happy Valentine’s Day! 🌸