by philipp68
Visiting the place I grew up made me remember many things I thought I had long forgotten. I felt how my childhood memories are like strong roots, that keep providing me with the nourishment to keep growing and evolving. I tried to capture this feeling in this week’s sketch. Childhood memories A couple of weeks ago, I went to visit my parents who live in the Swiss countryside. It was a beautiful, calm, hot summer day. Here a couple of […]
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The last post was about our psychological roots, how old memories can provide comfort and nourishment. In this sketch I tried to capture our physical roots, how a good bowl of soup can nourish our body and make us remember that we are children of Earth. Earth is an amazing planet As a kid I always dreamt of leaving Earth to explore the universe in a spaceship. I thought that being an astronaut must be the coolest job in the […]
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These last couple of days I have been at home, drinking a lot of tea, sleeping long hours and slowly getting better from a bad cold. Browsing through my notebook I decided to post the following sketch, showing the deeper layers of our body. Thank you immune system, for helping me and kindly telling that virus to find shelter somewhere else. In the meantime, let’s discuss similarities between the inner and the outer world to continue the series I started two weeks […]
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While I was doing this sketch, trying to show that the senses connect our inner and outer worlds, I realized how the addiction to be popular on Facebook is similar to the way our mind likes or dislikes everything it experiences. How we learn Our mind is this incredible apparatus that translates what we sense into what we know. The rational brain learns about the world by categorizing, memorizing and naming sense patterns. Our inner life is packed with words […]
Categories: Sketch • Tags: Attachment, Body, Ego, Mind, Senses
by philipp68
More sketching, less writing It’s been almost 6 months since the last post. I was struggling to finish what I have been working on, probably because what I wanted to say was not clear in my head. It felt as if every time I sat down to write a couple of sentences, I would miss the point and get lost. Somehow I was trying to say too much, without knowing what I really wanted to communicate. So instead of writing […]
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Here the complete sketchnote about fear, based on chapter 5 of “Freedom from the Known” by J. Krishnamurti. Fear is always old. It tries to keep us save by making sure, that we don’t repeat bad experiences. Fear does not like change and yet we all know that the only constant in our lives is change. No wonder we’re afraid most of the time. The only way to end fear is to realize that fear is part of us and we are […]
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Fear, Mind, Sketchnote, Wisdom
by philipp68
Here the first part of a sketchnote about fear, inspired by J. Krishnamurti. You can find the full text on Krishnamurti online. Fear warps our minds, makes us live in confusion and feeds our aggression’s. Our fears are real, they are part of life. It’s the internal observer who does not want fear. The observer is separate from fear. He is in a constant battle between himself and fear, which is such a waste of energy. In the next post I will […]
Categories: Sketchnotes • Tags: Fear, Mind, Sketchnote, Wisdom
by philipp68
A good friend gave me Freedom from the Known from J. Krishnamurti to read. I instantly liked it a lot, maybe because it is talks about mindfulness, long before mindfulness became a trend. Freedom from the Known is a tough read. So I decided to start sketchnoting some of the chapters, hoping that the visual representations of the text would help me and you gain a deeper understanding of Krishnamurti’s timeless wisdom. Here the visual summary of chapter 4 you can read in its entirety […]
Categories: Sketchnotes • Tags: Attachment, Meditation, Mind, Sketchnote, Wisdom
by philipp68
Here some illustrated quotes on consciousness that inspired me in 2014. I wish you all the best for 2015. Thank you for reading my blog and leaving a comment here and there. Happy new Year!
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Consciousness, Mind
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Here a visual summary of a short Facebook post by Michael Stone. I wish you peaceful, happy Christmas holidays. If I get melancholic taking a deep breath, relaxing my face, focusing on inhaling and exhaling, usually helps a lot. It makes me open my senses to the world around me, just being there in the moment. What do you do when you get melancholic? Namaste, Philipp
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Depression, Meditation, Mind
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Here a short story how the mind likes to take the world apart, so that it can store all the concepts it learns for later reference. It want’s to keep us save, by building up a complete, internal Lego set representing the world. Thus creating the illusion of control, if we could just understand how everything works. Namaste, Philipp
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Illusion, Mind
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To learn anything we need to let our body do the steps, without our critical mind interfering all the time. The rational mind is great for setting goals, but learning always happens in the body. Introduction This summer, on the ferry back to Athens, I finished The Inner Game of Tennis by W.Timothy Gallwey. One of the best books I’ve ever read and I don’t even play tennis. The inner game is what takes place in our mind What fascinated me was […]
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Action, Mind, Mindfulness
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My latest hero for awesome advice is Alan Watts. In his books he addresses the big questions of our existence by describing and contrasting the different schools of thought of east and west. I like that he never takes sides, that he sincerely wants to put the reader in a position to decide for himself what a fulfilled life could look like. And the best: according to Zen tradition Alan knows that life is far too serious to take it too seriously, and that often […]
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Attitude, Meditation, Mind, Nature, Wisdom
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Connections can happen if we have to courage to take our emotional armor off In an emotional, funny talk, Brené Brown shares a deep insight from her research: We need to live wholeheartedly, lean into the messy side of life. Only if we let ourselves be seen, can connections happen. We all know how difficult it is to lean into fear, shame and disappointment. How much easier it is to try to numb bad feelings by having a “couple of beers […]
Categories: Sketchnotes • Tags: Emotion, Heart, Sketchnote, Vulnerability, Wisdom
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Dear readers, Another year of blogging. Thank you so much for reading and commenting on my posts. Here my new year wishes for you all. Stay connected to each other, stay connected to life and to ourselves. Namaste, Philipp
Categories: Life & Work • Tags: Relationships, Wisdom
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The best way to invite others to follow you is to share your beliefs The last couple of weeks at work we spent trying to persuade our superiors to let us start an initiative to transform our business and enrich our jobs. “So what exactly are you trying to do?” they kept asking again and again. “How is this going to work?” Unable to come up with a convincing answer they could all equally accept, we were feeling stuck. On […]
Categories: Sketchnotes • Tags: Leaders, Meetings, Sketchnote, Wisdom
by philipp68
Sometimes the economical and political realities at work can crush even the best of intentions, making us see obstacles as problems not opportunities. I remember a meeting some weeks ago. We were discussing approaches to create a better future for our clients and ourselves. What started off with the best of intentions ended with the realization that we currently didn’t have the time or resources to make our dreams come true. Heads hanging, dreams crushed, everyone was slowly getting up […]
Categories: Sketchnotes • Tags: Happiness, Meditation, Mind, Modern Workplace
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