Title: heartmaster

Gender: Male

Age: 52

Sun Sign: Cancer

Chinese Sign: Fire Rooster

Location: Gan Shmuel, Emek Hefer

My Name is Andy (Andrew) Routledge. I was born in Bradford which is in Yorkshire England. I attended a missionary seminary for all of my high school. It was a great time, not at all heavy or pious.
After school I was in the military for a while but eventually opted to learn how to train horses for racing.

Sometime after my studies in horses I went to visit family in Israel and without meaning to, stayed. I now have 4 children, ages ranging from 25- 15. Two girls followed by two boys.

I spent time in the Israeli military and got to the rank of staff sergeant.

I began cooking because horses was not a very developed field in Isreal. Along side this I began to develop a love for photography and became quite sought after to do weddings and special events. I studied photgraphy through a recognized school in Tel Aviv.

In 1990 I began to read philosophy. To begin with I studied Confusious, Hobbs, Russeau, Spinoza, Marcus Aurilious, Bacon, Aristotle, St ThomasAquinas, Plato and several more.

As Time went on I was introduced to Sufism which has become my Spiritual home.

Since the year 2002 I have been studying constantly. Besides philosophy I took a course in Life Coaching followed by a course in Phychotherapy and finally a course in  general councilling.

What I love to do is to show people the way to resolve their problems through the development of spirituality.

I am also proud to say that I have become friends with the LLF (also kown as the LOVE TRIBE). I have a lot of really good friends there.

Together we discourse many issues such as,  how to love, how to forgive (and forget), how to reconcile, how to give and how to feel the essense of life from within.

I feel that only through the loving interaction with other humans can we hope to fulfill the purpose of our life here on Earth. If we were only to seek to be distanced from sin and evil by living in a cave or a dense forest, the most we could hope to achieve is peace of mind which has nothing of the blissful reward that God has prepared for us.

In my past life I associated my identity with all of the bad that had accumulated in my mind. Collectively this became my ego. My ego constantly guided me where it wanted through it own misguided interpretations of events. By cutting away this briar patch within my mind a new reality began to immerge. I realized that I was not who I had always considered myself to be. This allowed me to let myself off the hook and to start looking at the world in a loving manner. I invite you to do the same. It's the greatest gift that you will ever give yourself.

Suddenly I began to give insread of thinking how I could take.
We all naturally believe that the more we have the happier we will be. The truth is exactly in the opposite. Give and you will receive happiness that will last for eternity.  

You know, I learned a very big truth from the Tsunami. Tragic as it was, in the aftermath of the event while all the world leaders were pledging (often misleadingly) how much funds they would give for relief, private individuals from all around the world began to give quite independently from their governments. This wave of giving turned into a tidal wave of love to which the superpowers had no answer. This taught me that the small, seemingly inconsequential acts of love by millions and millions of people all over the globe is a force greater than anything that any goverment and/or technology can offer.

Love does work and love is in the giving. Give, give, give in any and every way you can. It is the most needed thing in the world today. Never think that what you do won't make a difference. If you have nothing to give, give more love, even if it is only in thought. Love is a source of energy and no energy is ever lost, it only changes it's form. God bless you.

Andy.
 

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