Are you born with your character, your intelligence, your sexual identity or do you form these essential parts of who you are because of the life you lead. Are you determined by your race, your ethnicity, your nationality, your religion or do other factors play as large a role in your life today. Your DNA is unique ...
2018-08-30 Natal, Brazil / Feeling Good / Gut Fühlen / Sentindo-se Bem / Sentirse Bien
614 Days - December 24th, 2016 to August 30th, 2018. - I believe in impossible dreams and I believe in miracles. I believe in you my baby Matilda. I believe the sky has no limit and that the stars are in your reach. I believe life is what you make it, so stand up tall and be the boss ...
If I were the Devil / Wenn ich der Teufel Wäre / Se eu fosse o Diabo / Si yo fuera el Diablo
If I were the devil ... If I were the prince of darkness I’d want to engulf the whole World in darkness, and I’d have a third of its real estate and four fifths of its population. But I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree: thee. So I’d set about ...
Curtain’s Up / Vorhang Auf / Cortina de Cima / Cortina Arriba
Cinema is a language. It can say things, big abstract things, and I love that about it. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words, but cinema is its own language and so you can express a feeling or a thought that can’t be conveyed any other way. It’s a ...
2013-08-27 Natal, Brazil / Wishful Thinking / Wunschdenken / Pensamento Desejoso / Pensamiento Deseoso
How can you tell between Love and wishful thinking. Desire feeds your mind, your body and your soul. You think about the other person all the time. You anticipate with excitement your time together. The other occupies you and your mind. You may give yourself over completely to this newly discovered relationship. The feelings are euphoric and all ...
Moral Imagination / Moralische Vorstellungskraft / Imaginação Moral / Imaginación Moral
Imagination is the exercise of generating new and novel mental images. Imagination is the critical link connection between what is and what might be. Imagination is an orientation to the World that emphasizes engaging alternative perspectives and creating new possibilities for action. Imagination is a difficult skill to teach. Poor leadership may in part be described as a ...
2012-08-26 Caico, Brazil / Where do you want to Go / Wo willst Du Hin / Onde você quer Ir / A dónde quieres Ir
Wo willst du hin? -Denn es macht jetzt keinen Sinn, fort zu gehen -Ich halt' dich fest -Such dich Nord, Ost, Süd und West -Um dich anzuflehen - Ich werd' dich suchen, muss dich finden, in alle Länder fall ich ein -Muss mich an deine Wege binden, dreh' und wende jeden Stein -Wo immer du auch ...
Ocean of Wisdom / Ozean der Weisheit / Oceano da Sabedoria / Océano de la Sabiduría
In Tibet it is believed that the Dalai Lama is a manifestation of Buddha of compassion who chooses to be re-birthed in the service of humanity. Dalai Lama means 'Ocean of Wisdom'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZ68sowWTc The great ocean has eight wonderful and marvellous qualities: The great ocean becomes deeper very gradually, not suddenly. The great ocean is stable; it ...
Center of all Things / Mittelpunkt aller Dinge / Centro de todas as Coisas / Centro de todas las Cosas
You spend your time acquiring things you do not want or need, you falter at the first sign of hardship and inconvenience. And one day, you wake up to a ticking clock realizing that, all this time, you have lived somebody else’s life. You experience the World like you are at the center of reality. You think and ...
The other I / Das andere Ich / O outro Eu / El otro Yo
An Alter Ego is a second Self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. A person who has an Alter Ego is said to lead a double life. An Alter Ego can help you embrace your true Self and exert confidence. An Alter Ego can be a way to escape ...
Boy with a Tin Can / Junge mit einer Blechdose / Menino com um Lata / Niño con una Lata
Close your eyes and picture a child that you love dearly or imagine yourself at the age of seven. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYTpvDHRhTw It is not easy seeing someone trying to survive on the streets of the city, and our reactions can range from pity, to anger, to choosing not to see the person at all. As hard as it ...
The last job on Earth / Der letzte Job auf der Erde / O último trabalho na Terra / El último trabajo en la Tierra
Machines could take 50% of our jobs in the next 30 years, according to scientists. While we can not predict the future, we can imagine a World without work – one where those who own the tech get rich from it and everyone else ekes out a living, propped up by an increasingly fragile state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvs7f4UaKLo Computers ...
Become a Scientist / Werde ein Wissenschaftler / Torne-se um Cientista / Conviértete en un Científico
To understand the World you are brought face to face with obscure concepts, difficult physics problems, and theories that are as complex to postulate as they are to validate. You are dealing with elusive questions at the very edge of Human understanding , where it does not help to consult physics textbooks or history because nothing of ...
I knew happiness Once / Ich habe einmal Glück Gekannt / Conheci a felicidade uma Vez / Conocí la felicidad una Vez
You live in a World of ever accelerating technological advancements - technology that is taking you beyond what many people ever imagined. This acceleration has not only increased the speed and convenience with which information is shared, it has also accelerated life. You desperately try to live your life at a 4G pace, as if you are ...
Accept your boring Life / Akzeptiere dein langweiliges Leben / Aceite sua vida Chata / Acepta tu vida Aburrida
At various times you were going to become an archeologist, paleontologist, veterinarian, famous rock musician, famous film director, actor, guitar player, music production engineer, teacher, composer, film editor, farmer or screenwriter. Despite being told how special, intelligent, and talented you were as a child, and how you could do anything, your life has ended up being ...
Brief moment in the Sun / Kurzer Moment in der Sonne / Breve momento ao Sol / Breve momento en el Sol
The picture that science presents to us is in some sense uncomfortable. We evolved as Human beings a few million years ago on the Savana in Africa and we evolved to escape tigers, or lions, or predators, and so what makes common sense to us is a World on our scale? You know how to throw a ...
Lost Happiness / Verlorenes Glück / Felicidade Perdida / Felicidad Perdida
20 years ago, children used to play outside all day, riding bikes, playing sports and building forts. Masters of imaginary games, children of the past created their own form of play that did not require costly equipment or parental supervision. Children of the past moved ... a lot, and their sensory World was nature based and ...
Money doesn’t buy Pleasure / Geld kauft kein Vergnügen / Dinheiro não compra Prazer / Dinero no compra Placer
Discipline is a way of expression. Say you want to express your feelings in stone. Now stone doesn't give way very easily, it's tough stuff. And so you have to learn the skill, or the discipline of the sculptor in order to express yourself in stone. And so in every other way, whatever you do. You require ...
The last Rainforest / Der letzte Regenwald / A última floresta Tropical / La última Selva
The combination of deforestation, climate change, and other factors could push the rainforest beyond the point of no return. If deforestation goes beyond 20% of its original spread, the Amazon rainforest will have reached the point of no return. If the climate changes by deforestation or global warming there is a risk that more than 50% of ...
The real Owners / Die wirklichen Besitzer / Os verdadeiros Proprietários / Los verdaderos Propietarios
Oligarchy, devised by a British/American/European financial elite of immense wealth and power with centuries old historical roots, controls the politicians, the courts, the educational institutions, the food, the natural resources, the foreign policies, the economies and the money of most nations. And, they control the media, which is why we know nothing about them. For most of ...
1977-08-16 Memphis, USA / Always on my Mind / Immer in meinem Kopf / Sempre na minha Mente / Siempre en mi mente
Elvis Presley surrounded himself with gorgeous, glamorous women who adored him. Unlike most, he had the opportunity to do exactly that. The singer was linked to a number of high profile beauties during his short life, and those who have remembered him publicly have generally done so with affection. Elvis quickly became attached to teenage girls. Elvis's closest ...
1961-08-15 Berlin, Germany / Jump to Freedom / Sprung in die Freiheit / Salto para a liberdade / Salto a la Libertad
Freedom is a high value. Freedom is characteristic of man's existence and its content varies depending on how much he feels and perceives as an independent, independent being. In Human history, the desire and struggle for freedom (spiritual, economic or political) is central. People struggle for their own independence, people struggle for the liberation of man at ...
What dreams may Come / Welche Träume werden Kommen / Que sonhos podem Vir / Qué sueños pueden Venir
Everything that you see is the end result of someone's dream. The advancements that mankind has made all these years are the conscious efforts of a few competent people who saw to it that their dreams are transformed into reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVrw-CSSc0o Dreams remain as mere notions, unless we act upon it. How many have chased their dreams? ...
2016-08-14 Natal, Brazil / Heart of Gold / Herz aus Gold / Coração de Ouro / Corazón de Oro
People with a heart of gold are treasures hidden deep underground, they are too rare and precious for this unfair and cruel World. They are filled with compassion, kindness, and genuine Love. They did not learn those things in the classroom nor was it taught by people around them; those traits are inborn to them and they ...
Magic is Everywhere / Magie ist Überall / Magia está em toda Parte / Magia está en todas Partes
If you want to witness a sense of wonder, just observe a child. A child’s whole World is viewed through the eyes of wonder and excitement. A child has no judgements of why things are the way they are and views life through innocence, purity and curiosity. We lose our sense of wonder as we become ...