Odelia · Lead facilitator
In 2012 I sold everything I owned. It came to $12.
I bought a small backpack and left to find the meaning of life on foot.
I had already tried to make sense of the absurdity of life from a chair. Film school. A degree in cultural studies. Endless books of wisdom, old and new, from every culture. I came to the only conclusion left: I can’t grow in the direction I want by studying. I can’t discover the world by reading about it.
I had to throw myself into situations that would shake my inner picture from the inside.
I spent the first years in Africa. Physical hardship, deep loneliness, situations that were truly dangerous. I thought I was looking for something. Something the people there might know, because they weren’t raised on the Western rules and the bullshit that kept me from settling in myself.
I kept going: the Far East, the Middle East, different teachers, ancient wisdoms. And I understood that the only way is inward. Every search costs more than the last.
I have only contempt for people who say “just look inside and you’ll find the answers.” Looking inside, understanding what you see, and having tools to deal with it is a whole discipline of its own.
Today I know it. And I’m glad to teach it and to help others.
I’m also the author of the book The Light.