🇳🇿/🇨🇦 Multidisciplinary creative with 10+ years working to save the 🗺. SDG™️-focused, designer of highly visible 🇺🇳-work. 🏆 Some awards and recognition, but motivation sought in places less fleeting or self-focused… がんばてね〜 🌄 Almost everything learned from others and one saying discovered by chance: ‘true wisdom begins in realising how little one actually knows…’ 🏛 “Much learning does not teach understanding.▫️ “Man's character is his fate.” —Heraclitus, the Crying Philosopher 🚀 “Meditation can turn fools into sages, but unfortunately fools never meditate”—Swami Vivekananda 🎓 “Education doesn't make you smarter.”― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ✨ Studying astrology (Hellenistic + Vedic). Asc: ♉️ Sun: ♎️ Moon: ♌️. ⬆️ conjunct fixed star Algol. AK = 🪐 🎈 “It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.” —Rabindranath Tagore 🌦 "If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out." —Aristotle 🕉 Meditating daily since 1993. The road is long, and sometimes empty, but it leads to places that are beyond imagination. Fortunate to find a teacher, although in truth the teacher found me. What little I’ve learned — and unlearned — was taught in silence, and I continue to learn in silence still. ☸️☯️♎️🔮🗿🛸🪐🤨 Woo-woo is great if it can be grounded with aggressive common-sense. Or to quote Vivekananda, “It is wrong to believe blindly. You must exercise your own reason and judgment” More from Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902): 💫 “Doing good to others is the one great universal religion.” 💫 “Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.” 🌔 “In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture” —Sri Aurobindo ❤️‍🔥 “I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” ―Walt Whitman 🐕 “Through my personal effort I can never better myself; it is like trying to straighten the tail of a dog”