Gennadiy Ivlev

The most exhilarating journey I’ve ever taken is the journey into the depths of myself. Meeting the true me.

All those sticky dogmas hinder our progress. Through defending your boundaries, you deprive yourself of the Almightiness. And with the freedom comes freedom from preconceptions.

The most fascinating thing to do ever is creating your own reality, realizing that everything around you is what you’ve created yourself: problems, achievements, love, pain — all of it you’ve attracted into your life yourself.

Once you’ve learned to be happy and realized that happiness can’t be measured in mils and carats, it is conceived within you, and nobody can bring it to you, nobody can ruin it. Happiness is when everything is great, and there’s nothing anybody can do about it.

I banned the word “problem” at work. There might be a matter, but not a problem.

Money is my means of freedom, freedom of movement. I don’t regard comfort as my primary concern, I can sleep on a rug in a monastery, but if there’s something five-starred around, I move there.

My most curious achievement: I found the way to communicate with my Soul. It has finally got through to me, despite all the impediments, all the insecurities. Knowing that you’re not alone in this world, knowing and being able to feel it is incredible.

I like the movies “Head in the Clouds”, “Little Buddha”, “What Dreams May Come”, “Love and Doves”, “Once Upon a Time in America”, “Cotton Club”, “Dead Man”, “Samsara”.

I try to abstain from judging anyone. The souls come to this world to learn something, experience certain things, make discoveries. It’s not up to me to judge what’s right and what’s wrong. I’m far more concerned about myself…

Many people live their lives as if they’re hoping to catch up on it later on sometime. Don’t wait until Monday, start living right now. Otherwise, you never will.

I have a soft spot for smart, beautiful women (smiles).

The time has come for a woman to take an honourable place in the society as her role has been deliberately downgraded.

I travel a lot: India, Tibet, Nepal. As soon as I manage to get some free time, I just hop on a plane and go. I know that I’ve spent a lot of time there during my life in previous incarnations, which explains my urge to keep coming back.

We’ve grown totally ignorant of words like “passion”, “irrepressible delight”, “rapture”, “delirious joy”, “endless tenderness”, “affinity”… We don’t hear them, don’t say them, we’ve forgotten their taste and the fine feeling they bear that unveils the infinity of kindness and gentleness concealed deep within us — everything that we’ve left aside, everything we’ve ashamed of saying even in front of ourselves. It’s time to catch a wake up and make the most of this life.

How do we understand love?
‘I love’
‘I love potatoes’
‘I love a child’
‘I love herring with onions’
‘I love a woman (a man)’
‘I love the World’
‘I love myself’

Sounds weird…

This World was woven by Love. We are a part of it.

Love is the finest vibration, the one that the Universe is made of — the Body of God, the very essence of us. We’re simply doomed to Happiness and Love. AUM.