Here Today,Gone to-Maui
MAUI AWAKENING
A Timeline of Island Transformation
🛬 Landing in Kahului
Trying to English Aloha! These are the days when I start to think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. When I landed in Kahului, things started to take off. I was on a different plane. I didn't wake up. I came to. Cool, unlying life rushed in. Hawaii is the canvas, throw up as much paint as you can. We are just the middlemen.
🌺 Discovering Island Style
The key to island-style is not knowing where you are going, but to prepare your character for those wondrous moments of serendipity; and when they occur, you can listen to your heart and know what it is you need to do. Impossible is nothing because infinite patience brings immediate results. It is not just a state of mind but also a state of grace, a vibe.
🍀 The Art of Island Luck
Serendipity, I call it good luck. I am big fan of the extraordinary role that luck plays in all our lives - big luck, small luck, good luck. Luck is an art. We are like fish, the last ones to know we are in the water, and most of the time we swim right past luck, and we're looking in any direction but where luck is. We all get those moments, however, where we know how to look in the right direction.
🌊 Quiet Coastline Revelations
When I go off into the quiet parts of the coastline and get very quiet, and come to understand that I am connected with everything... and no, I didn't have to do drugs to feel this - I am drugs! When you're in the islands, you are what you are right there and then.
🌍 The Geography of Bliss
Hawaii, however, doesn't have a monopoly on the Geography of Bliss for me. Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand's South Island, the whole Caribbean blue turquoise, Norway's Western Fjords, the whole city of Copenhagen have done it for me too.
📍 Cosmic Cartography
The Quest is in the Question - Where am I today? Paradise. I am back to that place that I have never been before. Google maps is OUT. Cosmic Cartography is IN. I'm testing/tracking/false positive for "hanging loose" in the present tense, as I perform a life hack on my comfort zone. It's an ongoing work in progress, under construction and creative destruction.
🏖️ The Teaches of Beaches
It only ends once - anything before that is just progress because the earth school kills all of its students. The Teaches Of Beaches is that You can't "own" the beach, but you can "tune in" to the beach. And the more you know, the less you need. Shoveling Sunshine.
🍕 Paia Pizza Zen
Pizza on Earth Good Will to All! I order a slice in Paia - "Make me one with everything" (Very Zen). There is precip - sun and moisture all over the place. I breathe right. A Rainy day in Paia is better than a sunny day at the office. I'm not hearing invoices but God's only voice which is silence.
Island Wisdom: Voices from Paradise
🌺 "Maui is not a place you go to escape life. It's where life finds you."
🌴 "The sun kisses Maui in a way no other place knows."
🌊 "Maui is proof that heaven can fit in your passport."
🌈 "Maui is not a destination, it's a feeling — like the ocean hugging your heart."
🌞 "Here on the shores of Maui, I remember who I really am."