This night remains

A sea to live I won't find
in a fish's soul body of a cat
every night I go out to drown myself
sometimes stars, sometimes the edge of the abyss
something I chase, like the castaway
my years, my sheets, cigars to put out

This night remains
for centuries frozen
during which two souls never found a shelter
and they came into the world as strangers and condemned
to live an earthly love

I was also lost one night
sea was Kazantzidis's voice
the stars were falling into the mud
black guy the weather and black snake
the heart waived at me, smell
how the oil burns and live the journey

This night remains
for centuries frozen
during which two souls never found a shelter
and they came into the world as strangers and condemned
to live an earthly love

A Thousand Kisses Deep

Don't matter if the road is long

Don't matter if it's steep
Don't matter if the moon is gone
And the darkness is complete
Don't matter if we lose our way
It's written that we'll meet
At least, that's what I heard you say
A thousand kisses deep

I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
You see, I'm just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet
Who loved you with his frozen love
His second hand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep

I know you had to lie to me
I know you had to cheat
You learned it on your father's knee
And at your mother's feet
But did you have to fight your way
Across the burning street
When all our vital interests lay
A thousand kisses deep

I'm turning tricks
I'm getting fixed
I'm back on boogie street
I'd like to quit the business
But I'm in it, so to speak
The thought of you is peaceful
And the file on you complete
Except what I forgot to do
A thousand kisses deep

Don't matter if you're rich and strong
Don't matter if you're weak
Don't matter if you write a song
The nightingales repeat
Don't matter if it's nine to five
Or timeless and unique
You ditch your life to stay alive
A thousand kisses deep

The ponies run
The girls are young
The odds are there to beat
You win a while, and then it's done
Your little winning streak
And summon now to deal with your invincible defeat
You live your life as if it's real
A thousand kisses deep

I hear their voices in the wine
That sometimes did me seek
The band is playing Auld Lang Syne
But the heart will not retreat
There's no forsaking what you love
No existential leap
As witnessed here in time and blood
A thousand kisses deep

Leonard Cohen

Poem

Song

Bees - It's getting dark, I am coming out to find you

It’s too late to hate you

air with freshness
the bees are chasing me
and you that didn’t want me

I shake the basil
to stop the bad
witches had tied you
but you still cracked me

It’s getting dark, I am coming out to find you
like a two day moon
closed shutters
How much I would want you to love me

I throw thyme on fires
the beauty’s are afflicting me
the beauty’s the murderess
and you that have forgotten me

Don’ be afraid if I cry
I have felt it before you disappeared
a bitterness in rose water
because you have been refusing the dream

I will throw where you walk
our vow to step on
even if the bees are hurting me
and you that didn’t want me

The pomegrenate

The pomegranate has been a recurring motif in art and literature. It is depicted in Chinese porcelains, Turkish textiles, Italian paintings, Norwegian coverlets, Spanish chests, Mexican embroideries and New Mexican colcha. It is mentioned in Greek mythology, in the Qur’an, the Bible and the Torah. Oscar Wilde wrote a collection of fairy tales called “A House of Pomegranates”, Homer referred to pomegrenates in his “Garden of Alcinous”, Shakespeare wrote of nightingales singing in pomegranate trees (Romeo and Juliet) and of picking kernals out of the pomegranates (All’s Well that Ends Well). Botticelli created “Madonna of the Pomegranate”. Paul Cezanne’s “Ginger Pot With Pomegranates and Pears” and Pierre Auguste Renoir “Nature Morte A La Grenade” both capture the beauty and power of the pomegranate. “Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening” is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dali depicting Freud’s discovery that external stimuli could be the cause of a dream.

Most frequently the pomegranate is a symbol of fertility, birth and eternal life, owing to its abundance of seeds. Its deep blood red colour has led to its interpretation as a symbol of death. It also represents unity, illustrated by the many seeds bound together in a single skin.

The pomegranate is prominently featured in the myth of Persephone, the goddess of the Underworld. In one version of Greek mythology, Persephone was kidnapped by Hades and taken off to live in the underworld as his wife. Her mother, Demeter (goddess of the Harvest), went into mourning for her lost daughter and thus all green things ceased to grow. Zeus, the highest ranking of the Greek gods, could not allow the Earth to die, so he commanded Hades to return Persephone. It was the rule of the fates that anyone who consumed food or drink in the Underworld was doomed to spend eternity there. Persephone had no food, but Hades tricked her into eating six pomegranate seeds while she was still his prisoner and so, because of this, she was condemned to spend six months in the Underworld every year. During these six months, when Persephone is sitting on the throne of the Underworld next to her husband Hades, her mother Demeter mourns and no longer gives fertility to the earth. This became an ancient Greek explanation for the seasons. 

Dreaming of Pomegranates 1912, Felice Casorati (1883-1963 Italian painter, sculptor and printmaker)

The orange girl

She became so intoxicated by the sun's juice
That she bowed her head and consented
very slowly to become: the Orange Girl !

So while the seven skies glittered with blue
So while the crystals touched a fire
So while swallow-tails flashed
Angels above were bewildered and girls below
Storks above were bewildered and peacocks below
And all together gathered and saw her
And all together called her: the Orange Girl !

Vine shoots and scorpions reel drunkenly

the whole world is drunk

But the sting of dawn will not leave pain alone
The dwarf heron says it amid the earthworms
The drip-drop of water says it amid golden moments
And the dew says it to the lips of the good North Wind

Get up small small small Orange Girl !
No one knows you as the kiss knows you
Nor does the laughing god knows you
Who with his hand open to the flaming glare of the sun
Exposes you naked before his thirty-two winds

Odysseus Elytis -" the sun-drinking" poet, recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Make your own dream

That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story, that's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

John Lennon, 1980

Imagine John Lennon - Remembering a Legend

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed no hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one 

John Lennon left this earth on December 8 1980

Whispers of the Beloved

I cannot sleep in your prescence.
In your absence, tears prevent me.
You watch me My Beloved
On each sleepless night and
Only You see the difference


Looking at my life
I see that only Love
Has been my soul’s companion
From deep inside
My soul cries out:
Do not wait, surrender
For the sake of Love.


If you can’t smell the fragrance
Don’t come into the garden of Love.
If you’re unwilling to undress
Don’t enter into the stream of Truth.
Stay where you are.
Don’t come our way.


All year round the lover is mad,
Unkempt, lovesick and in disgrace.
Without love there is nothing but grief.
In love… what else matters?


Love is our Mother and
The way of our Prophet.
Yet it is in our nature
To fight with Love.
We can’t see you, mother,
Hidden behind dark veils
Woven by ourselves.


Do you want to enter paradise?
To walk the path of Truth
You need the grace of God.
We all face death in the end.
But on the way, be careful
Never to hurt a human heart!


Do you know what the music is saying?
“Come follow me and you will find the way.
Your mistakes can also lead you to the Truth.
When you ask, the answer will be given.”


The Master who’s full of sweetness
Is so drunk with love, he’s oblivious.
“Will you give me
some of your sweetness?”
“I have none,” he says,
unaware of his richness.


You know what love is?
It is all kindness, generosity.
Disharmony prevails when
You confuse lust with love, while
The distance between the two
Is endless.
This Love is a King
But his banner is hidden.
The Koran speaks the Truth
But its miracle is concealed.
Love has pierced with its arrow
The heart of every lover.
Blood flows but the wound is invisible.


Rumi

Beloved

You feel euphoria
You feel bliss
You feel unique
You feel every second
You feel love

Happiness through compassion

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, 

is the warmth and affection we give. 

It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, 

in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. 

More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

Dalai Lama

Love Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
So I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

One Hundred Love sonnets, 1960

Pablo Neruda

Winter Sweet - Chimonanthus

Autumn rises tonight in love
the mountains smelled of rosemary and honey
and I am looking silent at the wet ground
beauty hurts like a burning coal

I ask the sky for a kiss and the sky gives me dust
but when I want you to get cut from the heart's spindle
The doors stir and the lock turns
The wind whistles at me. If you are going to come don't be late

Take off your clothes and take water from my eyes and wash
separation, remember, is a chimonanthus.
I lived in sorrow at day and at night
I leave you in the wind to find you in the light

Love , has fears and dreams for supper before it breaks
Solitude becomes a saint at pain's country church
And I, that I ask for a sorrow to scar me
before the light has set, I will deny you again

Take off your clothes and from take water my eyes and wash
separation, remember, is a chimonanthus.
I lived in sorrow at day and at night
I live you in the wind to find you in the light



Chimonanthus Praecox / Winter Sweet is a cold resistant shrub. It flowers in the winter and its little very strongly scented, yellow, star shaped flowers last for months.

The Tango of Love

It takes Two to Tango.
Two to share the same Passion.
The same Eager to Synchronicity.
No one leading. Both Following, Feeling, Inspiring, Responding, Expanding, Connecting.

" When you dance tango you must give everything. If you can not do that, do not dance."
Ricardo Vidort

Dance to the end of Love!

Et si tu n'existais pas - If you didn't exist

Et si tu n’existais pas – If you didn’t exist 

French  - English lyrics

Et si tu n'existais pas Et si tu n'existais pas Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi Sans espoir et sans regret Et si tu n'existais pas J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts Naître les couleurs du jour Et qui n'en revient pas Et si tu n'existais pas Dis-moi pour qui j'existerais Des passantes endormies dans mes bras Que je n'aimerais jamais Et si tu n'existais pas Je ne serais qu'un point de plus Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va Je me sentirais perdu J'aurais besoin de toi Et si tu n'existais pas Dis-moi comment j'existerais Je pourrais faire semblant d'être moi Mais je ne serais pas vrai Et si tu n'existais pas Je crois que je l'aurais trouvé Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi Simplement pour te créer Et pour te regarder Et si tu n'existais pas Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi Sans espoir et sans regret Et si tu n'existais pas J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts Naître les couleurs du jour Et qui n'en revient pas

If you didn’t exist And if you didn’t exist Tell me why should I exist For living in a world without you Without hope and regrets And if you didn’t exist I would try to invent love Like a painter who sees under his fingers The day’s colours, borne And that aren’t coming back. And if you didn’t exist Tell me why should I exist Passers-by asleep in my arms That I won’t ever love And if you didn’t exist I would be nothing more than one more dot In this world that comes and goes I would feel lost I would need you. And if you didn’t exist Tell me how could I exist I could make a semblance of me But I wouldn’t be true I think that I have found it The secret of life, the why Just for believing you And for seeing you. And if you didn’t exist Tell me why should I exist For living in a world without you Without hope and regrets And if you didn’t exist I would try to invent love Like a painter who sees under his fingers The day’s colours, borne And that aren’t coming back.

My Love

Two words saying everything.
Saying I love you, saying goodbye my beloved one.
To someone you have opened your world to, shared everything, became one with.
Hello my love. Goodbye my love.

Et si tu n'existais pas

Of Love

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.

...

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

...

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

...

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Kahlil Gibran

Get rid of those possessions

Possessions are not just physical possessions.
Possessions are ideas.
Most people are choked to death by concepts and ideas that they carry around with them; usually not their own but their parents' and society's.
Those are the possessions you've got to get rid of to get through the eye of the needle and it has absolutely nothing to do with physical possessions.


John Lennon, 1980

Our Beauty Lies Within Us!

Audrey Hepburn's Beauty Tips

For attractive lips,
speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes,
seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure,
share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair,
let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.

For poise,
walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things,
have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;
never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands;
one for helping yourself,
and the other for helping others.

Unconditional Love

"I love you because you are you."
The only way to love.
No ego games, no resentfulness and unforgiveness, no misunderstandings, no holding back thoughts and feelings. No end and no beginning.
Only Love! Love with no terms & conditions, boundaries & limits.

Pure, Unlimited, Fullfiling LOVE

Shed some light on you!

Free yourself from the agreements you have made with you.

We have been domesticated since our birth to understand and accept everything that surrounds us. These are our beliefs or else agreements as per Don Miguel Ruiz.

We can always switch old harmful agreements to new beneficial ones.

The four agreements are the following:

1.    Be Impeccable With Your Word

2.    Don’t Take Anything Personally

3.    Don’t Make Assumptions

4.    Always Do Your Best

1.    Be Impeccable With Your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

2.    Don't Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

3.    Don't Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4.     Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

Don Miguel Ruiz is a Mexican author of new age spiritualist and neoshamanistic  texts and his teaching is significantly influenced  by the work of Carlos Castaneda.

For them to come

A candle is enough.
it fits better,
for Love to come,

A candle is enough.
having softer light.
and prompt,
in daydream
for Love to come,

It's dim light
will be more welcoming
when Shadows come.

The room tonight,

In daydream

And with the subtle light –

I will vision

For Shadows to come.

Konstantinos Kavafis

When you love

That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. 
But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die.


Hermann Hesse

Are you Happy?

The greatest speech in history. Make this life free and beautiful...Let us all unite!

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

from the movie: The great dictator (1940)

written, produced, directed, starring: Charlie Chaplin

An Inspirational story - The fisherman



An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The fisherman replied: only a little while.

The American then asked why didn't he stay out longer and catch more fish?

The fisherman said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs.

The American then asked: but what do you do with the rest of your time?

The fisherman said: I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my friends. I have a full and busy life.

The American said: I have an MBA from Harvard  and I could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the revenue, buy a bigger boat.  With the revenue from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Los Angeles and even New York City where you will run your expanding enterprise.

The fisherman asked: But, how long will this all take?

The American replied: twenty to twenty five years.

But what then?"

The American laughed and said that's the best part. When the time is right you would start selling stocks and make millions.

Millions.. Then what?"

The American said: Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your friends.

Words of Inspiration : Steve Jobs

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”

“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.”

“I read a quote that went something like:"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”


Thank you Steve Jobs. You were and will be an Inspiration.
Rest in Peace.

Floral Design by the sea

Floral design can be practiced everywhere. Just look around and you can find all kinds of different materials to make your flower arrangement.
Here is what I made on the beach.

Self-Awareness - Are you Extraverted or Introverted?

Sensing or Intuitive? Judging or Perceiving? Feeling or Thinking?

Take this test to achieve personal growth, balance, understanding of yourself, and create possibilities.

Knowledge of type can help people express their spirituality in ways that are comfortable and rewarding. For people who are already active spiritually, an understanding of type can direct them toward new more satisfying practices.

Click on the link below to take the Personality test based on Jung and Briggs Myers typology

Jung Typology Test

The Dichotomies are:

Extraversion (E) -	(I) Introversion
Sensing (S) -	(N) Intuition
Thinking (T) -	(F) Feeling
Judgment (J) -	(P) Perception

All types are equal

The goal of knowing about personality type is to understand and appreciate differences between people. As all types are equal, there is no best type.

What Each Preference Can Offer

Extraversion Outwardly directed energy needed to move into action Responsiveness to what is going on in the environment A natural inclination to converse and to network	Introversion Inwardly directed energy needed for focused reflection Stability from attending to enduring ideas A natural tendency to think and work alone
Sensing A mastery of the facts Knowledge of what materials and resources are available Appreciation of knowing and doing what works	Intuition Insight and attention to meanings A grasp of what is possible and what the trends are Appreciation of doing what hasn’t been tried before
Thinking Analysis of the pros and cons of situations, even when they have a personal stake An ability to analyze and solve problems Want to discover the “truth” and naturally notice logical inconsistencies	Feeling Knowledge of what is important to people and adhere to that in the face of opposition The ability to build relationships and to be persuasive Desire to uncover the greatest good in a situation and notice when people may be harmed
Judging Organization, planning, and follow through on projects Push to get things settled and decided Appreciation of well-organized efficiency	Perceiving Quickly and flexibly responding to the needs of the moment Strive to keep things open so new information may be gathered Appreciation of the need for spontaneity and exploration

The Four Temperaments are:
Guardian (SJ)
Supervisor, Inspector, Provider, Protector
All Guardians share the following core characteristics:

• Guardians pride themselves on being dependable, helpful, and hard-working.
• Guardians make loyal mates, responsible parents, and stabilizing leaders.
• Guardians tend to be dutiful, cautious, humble, and focused on credentials and traditions.
• Guardians are concerned citizens who trust authority, join groups, seek security, prize gratitude, and dream of meting out justice.

Famous Guardians
George Washington, Sandra Day O'Connor, George H. W. Bush, Mother Teresa, Hary S. Truman, Elisabeth II, Sam Walton, Martha Stewart

Idealist (NF)
Teacher, Counselor, Champion, Healer
All Idealists share the following core characteristics:

• Idealists are enthusiastic, they trust their intuition, yearn for romance, seek their true self, prize meaningful relationships, and dream of attaining wisdom.
• Idealists pride themselves on being loving, kindhearted, and authentic.
• Idealists tend to be giving, trusting, spiritual, and they are focused on personal journeys and human potentials.
• Idealists make intense mates, nurturing parents, and inspirational leaders.

Famous Idealists
Mohandas Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Joan Baez, Mikhail Girbachev, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Schweitzer, Princess Diana


 Rational (NT)
Fieldmarshal, Mastermind, Inventor, Architect
All Rationals share the following core characteristics:

• Rationals tend to be pragmatic, skeptical, self-contained, and focused on problem-solving and systems analysis.
• Rationals pride themselves on being ingenious, independent, and strong willed.
• Rationals make reasonable mates, individualizing parents, and strategic leaders.
• Rationals are even-tempered, they trust logic, yearn for achievement, seek knowledge, prize technology, and dream of understanding how the world works.

Famous Rationals
Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Walt Disney, Maria Montessori, Napoleon Bonaparte, Margaret Thatcher, Isaac Newton, Ayn Rand

Artisan (SP) Promoter, Crafter, Composer,  Performer
All Artisans share the following core characteristics:

• Artisans tend to be fun-loving, optimistic, realistic, and focused on the here and now.
• Artisans pride themselves on being unconventional, bold, and spontaneous.
• Artisans make playful mates, creative parents, and troubleshooting leaders.
• Artisans are excitable, trust their impulses, want to make a splash, seek stimulation, prize freedom, and dream of mastering action skills.

Famous Artisans
Wolfgang Mozart, Jacqueline Onasis, Bruce lee, Katherine Hepburn, Donald Trump, Madonna, Magic Johnson, Marilyn Monroe

“Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart’s desire.”

Isabel Bryggs Myers