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About Razan Masri

I love exploring, researching, finding and sharing. I love to learn and to teach, I love to live and to laugh, I wish to speak to the world as an Arab Woman using the most beautiful language through photographs and writing.

Morning Diary 18 – My first day in Barcelona was a run to the beach area for son sun lovin’…

Friday, November 14 2014

Barcelona – Spain

After few weeks of chilly weather between Germany and Switzerland, arriving in Barcelona felt like breathing again. Not that I wasn’t breathing back in Switzerland, but even when you’re a little cold, you hardly take a deep breath in that draws a natural smile all the way from your heart to your face. There is a little extra something about a weather that calls upon you for a quick suntan, and that is exactly what I did on my first day in Barcelona, walked between the authentic streets of Sant Antoni down the Rambla towards the beautiful Port Olimpic and Barceloneta.

Take a look at some of my photos while you listen to one of the best sons I stumbled upon in Barcelona for Gabriella Ferri, Remedios.

“I have always believed that when a man gets it in his head to do something and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed”…

“I have always believed that when a man gets it in his head to do something and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed. Whatever the difficulties. That man can become grand vizier or pope or Casanova.” A quote I have picked up few months ago while I was changing paths… And I still feel wowed every time I read it… It’s like magic but it’s not… I mean we really can be the next big thing but it can’t be what we want to be… we can really want to do something for an obvious reason and give it our all till its done and if one thing is a great thing then you will be the next big thing.
When we are cooking, we usually know what we want as a result on our plate, so while we are in the making we know what we are forming and creating… The ingredients are essential here, some can not be altered at the end and some can be somewhat added or replaced… Therefore the ingredients are essential and the person making the meal with passion & love is also another essential… One good meal is not so easy to be done looking, tasting & smelling phenomenal. The cook must be really aware and good at what he is doing to accomplish an unforgettable dish… Therefore how much do you believe in what you are creating, making or forming? How useful will it be? Do you feel the audience before they arrive? If yes then just keep going until you’re the next #Gaudi in your own way…

Coming up on my blog will be lots and lots of beautiful pictures and morning diaries covering the beautiful city of Barcelona.

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Morning Diary 17 – 24 hours in Zurich Switzerland – Part 2

Tuesday, November 11 2014

Zürich – Switzerland

After spending 12 hours in Zürich, I was lucky enough to have yet another 12 hours day time in this stunning city and I decided to just walk all over Zrich by foot from one area to another. It is quiet small and easy to move around, a bicycle would be faster and more fun, but if you wish to just stop when you want, take a photograph or just stare while you get inspired by all the little details and breathtaking architecture, then do it by foot. Zürich is one beautiful gothic medieval city that is just full of yet more surprises coming out from every corner… An art piece, a city full of art, a trip to remember and to repeat. Love Switzerland.

Morning Diary 16 – 24 hours in Zurich Switzerland – Part 1

Monday, November 10th 2014

Zürich – Switzerland

At this point and stage, I was just living, I let go of all my boundaries, and I decided not to plan my trip in Zürich, but to just join my beautiful friend who was very generous to take me around. Zürich is breathtaking, similar to Solothurn but much bigger and more cosmopolitan. Life is Zürich tempted me, and in my mind all I can imagine is living there in one of their guild houses, on the last floor with their gothic windows overlooking the cities lake and busy streets and night lights…

Healing thoughts: We live in a random life of a cycle that keeps rotating rotating and rotating until it stops… And who knows where it will stop.. It’s like gambling, you can live all your life practicing to predict where you will stop but even if you predict… it will stop anyway… Why bother? Why spend so much time searching for ways to predict ? What will it change ? What kind of preparations will be useful ? Just go round and round until it stops and your destiny is your destiny … Running from or to it will not help you form anything … Just be.. Be yourself, fill your life with the presence… Fill it with the instruments available to you today, fill it with the joy that is around you… The real joy is the joy of ones self satisfaction of nothingness. What is yours will always be yours and what goes away from you was never yours. So Believe… Breath and Be.

Morning Diary 15 – Solothurn… A fairy town, baroque medieval village in Switzerland

Saturday, November 8th 2014

Solothurn, Switzerland

Where do I start from; for the love of architecture ? this town is breathtaking. It is all about the details, about the little pretty things, it is colorful, full of authentic colors, and beautiful people walking around, you would sense they should be in some sort of a costume, but they are not. The tiny shops, the bicycles, the flowers, the windows, the doors, the river… I kept wondering how do the people live here? It is such a small city, but it brings happenings into your heart, unless it is because I haven’t explored the outside of the center. Anyway, if you ever visit Switzerland, try your best not to miss visiting this unforgettable city that is just about 2hours away from Zürich by train.

Morning Diary 14 – Camping, hiking and exploring at the Jura Mountains Oberbalmberg, Switzerland

Tuesday, November 4th 2014

Jura Mountains Oberbalmberg, Solothurn, Switzerland

A week was spent in this beautiful side of Switzerland, where nature is your source of everything. You wake up and sleep breathing the freshest breeze, looking at the most incredible colors of nature and dreaming of the magic that surrounds it. A great space, a great place, and fantastic group of people….

Live your life in happiness in love and in wisdom

Life is too short to keep hiding in a box, get out there, be out there, share your wisdom your happiness your positive thoughts and feelings. Where will you go if you stay inside your box? Afraid of consequences and rejection? What is life without them ? So what if things didn’t work out a zillion times? but you have gained trying, experiencing, living. Live, love, laugh, enjoy, breath, play and share. Get out there, get out from your box. The only rules there, are those you have set for yourself, the only limits are, this you have drawn for yourself. Life was made for you to sculpt with. If you choose what you think is right verses what you feel is right then it is your choice. Sculpt life the way you feel it is right, sculpt because you can make a difference, because it is made for sculpture, because you feel for a reason. Have a wonderful day, starting with positive thoughts, feelings and wishful thinking. ❤️🙏

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Morning Diary Day 13 – Berlin Night & Day … Make sure you visit MauerPark Flea Market & Karaoke

Sunday, November 2nd 2014

Berlin, Germany

I was lucky enough to catch the great weather just exactly around a month ago in Berlin, walking around Neukolln towards Kreuzberg was a great way to explore the local concept stores and shops. If it is a good day and a sunday, then do not miss the Neukolln flowmarket “flea market” and make sure you make it to the big flea market at Mauerpark that is defiantly worth checking out and specially the open karaoke. At night you can find plenty of beautiful urban restaurants and bars in both areas, as for the touristic attractions, then Mitee is your best place.

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Treat your worries like the addicts treat nicotine when they decide to quit, worry less every day until you are worry free.

We attract what we expect and what we over expect we attract the very opposite. We carry our worries around not knowing that they only cause pain and absolutely nothing more. How to walk without them is just uneasy but the truth is we were born without them and we have only piled them up as we walked our feet throughout our lives. Our basic nature is without worrying but our habit have become to worry and make everyone else worry with us. It’s time to let go, walk with your body without any backpacks without any pain or looking back without any expectations or fixed plans… Just worry free, with your body as light as it is and you will feel lighter without them. Our future is not running away from us and what is bound to happen good or bad will eventually happen. Create your list of what you wish to do but give it freedom, plan your meet ups but also give it freedom, carry your baby for 9 months and give it freedom to be who it is… Give your mind the freedom this life offer, for we were born into life free of everything except for our parents who were a given and what they include in our lives and then what everyone else includes and then what we include… And remember they are all additions. Treat your worries like the addicts treat nicotine when they decide to quit, worry less every day until your worry free. Now lets enjoy this magical life… ❤️

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Fill your thoughts with love and speak them out loud after

Speak light… Speak freedom, speak generously, speak wise, speak beauty, speak truth, speak love; for love is unity, love is an international language, love is everything we seek for and everything we can give at anytime. Love should be the best gift packed in the most beautiful gift wrap, stored in most intimate journal, carved deeply in our hearts to remember. Love yourself, love your family, love your surrounding, love your faith, love your city, love your people, love earth, love the people of earth, love the nature, and fill your heart with kindness. Be present, without our presence, love is simply harder to find. ❤️

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