Mosquitoes in Skyros

How Truth Leads to Love

Wayne Noakes

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781398449947
• Topic: Développement personnel
• Subtopic: Amélioration personnelle

A spiritual retreat – or so this man thought – was something you go on to embrace your connection with life and (hopefully) learn a bit more about yourself. If things go well, you might end up looking to the future with added confidence. However, when the realisation dawns that you have been semi-consciously searching for "the one" for the last eleven years, and that the very essence and substance of true love risks materialising during the retreat… I mean, what is a man to do?A light-hearted search for greater well-being on a Greek island combines with "a nice holiday" to engender somewhat more sharing than anticipated. The parallel narratives of the retreat workshops and a budding relationship begin to over-flow – one nourishing the other, to the point that a rare and very real love seems almost fated.Written with great honesty and sensitivity and (yet!) through a male perspective, poignant memories from childhood are pieced together with reflections on relationships in general to bring such focus on the natural laws affecting us all, that a sense of underlying good purpose in every relationship starts to emerge.With evocative descriptions of Greek cuisine and culture as the backcloth, threads of spiritual mystique interweave with a most-passionate romance. The words of wisdom that emerge organically as the story unfolds may be left to wash over, or be investigated using the cross-references to appendices that support self-development alongside the story; but in any event, there is always the sun and the feta!

Table of contents

• Title Page
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• Flight to Athens (Not Sleeping)
• Exploring the Sunshine and Its Reflections
• Good Morning Skyros (A Truly New Place)
• Still Not Sleeping, But Really Living
• Did that Really Happen? (Yes!)
• Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder (Enter the Mosquitoes)
• The Truth Will “Out” And So Will the Stars (“I Love You”)
• The Past Remains Present – Even After Breakfast (More Work to Do…)
• The Island Tour (Two Hearts of Stone Find Their Place)
• A “New” New Morning (The Past Continues to Unlock the Future)
• The Big Reveal (“Where, Therefore, Does It Leave Us?”)
• Synchronicité (And the Long Walk Home to Find It)
• The Mosquitoes: Their Return (And Leur Reprise)
• Appendix I The Process of Writing: Mosquitoes in Skyros (…And Discovering How My Mind Works)
• Appendix II The Particularly Interesting Footnotes
• Appendix III Mosquitoes in Skyros – Spiritual Extracts