São Paulo is considered the financial capital of Brazil, as it is the location for the headquarters of major corporations, of banks and financial institutions. São Paulo is Brazil's highest GDP city and the 10th largest in the World. São Paulo 's economy is going through a deep transformation. Once a city with a strong industrial character, the economy has followed ...
Flowers of Evil / Blumen des Bösen / Flores do mal / Fleurs du Mal
Self-interest is the most obvious reason for you to act like a hypocrite. Your personal cost is enough to outweigh the intention to act morally. You want to act fairly until you are put on the spot and are facing your own personal consequences. You are like a special type of liar who puts extra effort into disguising ...
Finding your Truth / Deine Wahrheit Finden / Encontrando sua Verdade / Encontrando tu Verdad
Whether you identify yourself as struggling with addiction or not, as Humans, we are all confronted with the painful experience of separation. Times when you feel alone and disconnected from your essence. By being able to accept these experiences and by having compassion for yourself when you are feeling them, allows you to go through them ...
2008-01-22 New York , USA / The dark Knight / Der dunkle Ritter / O cavaleiro Trevas / El caballero Oscuro
Heath Ledger told Sarah Lyall that his recently completed role in 'The Dark Knight' (2008) had taken a toll on his ability to sleep: 'Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. ... I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.' At that time, he told Lyall that he had taken ...
Down with Love / Zum Teufel mit der Liebe / Abaixo o Amor / Abajo el Amor
Men value freedom. Women seek honesty. Why should men and women try to please one another? For Love’s sake. The World of Love is an easily solved mystery of emotional giving and receiving. What Love we have given we will have forever. What Love we fail to give is lost for all eternity. - Leo ...
1942-01-20 Berlin, Germany / Final Solution / Endlösung / Solução Final / Solución Final
The plans to exterminate all the Jews of Europe was formalized at the Wannsee Conference, held at an SS guesthouse near Berlin, on 20th January 1942. The conference was chaired by Heydrich and attended by 15 senior officials of the Nazi Party and the German government. Most of those attending were representatives of the Interior Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, and ...
A time you’ve never Known / Eine Zeit, die du nie gekannt hast / Um tempo que você nunca Conheceu / Un tiempo que nunca has Conocido
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley Looking at old photos, it is hard not to feel a kind of wanderlust - a pang of nostalgia, for times you have never experienced. To sit on the side of the road and watch the locals passing by. Who lived and died before ...
What is wrong with our Culture / Was ist falsch mit unserer Kultur / O que está errado com a nossa Cultura / Qué está mal con nuestra Cultura
Why is it that we don’t seem to be able to adjust ourselves to the physical environment without destroying it? Why is it that in a way this culture represents in a unique fashion the law of diminishing returns. That our success is a failure. That we are building up in other words, an enormous ...
You can always find a better Job / Du kannst immer einen besseren Job Finden / Você sempre pode encontrar um emprego Melhor / Siempre puedes encontrar un mejor Trabajo
Life is too short to be unhappy at work. The drive to achieve goals and further your career pushes you to be and do your best. But when ambition is coupled with hypercompetitiveness and a single-minded focus on winning, you get into trouble. You become blind to the impact of your actions on yourself and others; relationships ...
1969-01-16 Prague, Czechoslovakia / Burning Bush / Brennender Busch / Sarça Ardente / Zarza Ardiente
The fight for freedom, for moral principles, self-sacrifice and protest in those desperate times led to the moral unification of a repressed nation, which twenty years later defeated the totalitarian regime. The anniversary of Jan Palach’s death inspired a new generation of students to start protests that led to the eventual fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, ...
We can Change / Wir können es Ändern / Nós podemos Mudar / Podemos Cambiar
We can change. But we can not just snap our fingers and say goodbye to our well-established patterns, even when those patterns result in bad consequences. We wish it could be easier. We do not change just because someone (even ourselves) wants us to. 'It is too hard, it is not in our DNA, it requires excessive ...
1957-01-14 Los Angeles, USA / The sea is a Sanctuary / Das Meer ist ein Heilgtum / O mar é um Santuário / El mar es un Santuario
Bogart met Lauren Bacall while filming 'To Have and Have Not' (1944), a loose adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel. When they met, Bacall was 19 and Bogart 44. He nicknamed her 'Baby'. She had been a model since 16 and had acted in two failed plays. Bogart was drawn to Bacall's high cheekbones, green eyes, tawny blond hair, and lean body, as well ...
People are the key to a Place / Menschen sind der Schlüssel zu einem Ort / Pessoas são a chave para um Lugar / Personas son la clave de un Lugar
You have seen rolling desert dunes, beautiful mountains castles, stunning canyons with clear rivers and spent time at some of the World’s most amazing architecture but it is the local people that stay with you the most; in your memory and in your heart. It is the images you have captured of deep meaningful faces, the ...
1750-01-13 São Miguel das Missões, Brazil / Gabriel’s Oboe / In My Fantasy / Em minha Fantasia / Nella Fantasia
The Mission is based on events surrounding the Spanish - Portuguese treaty of 1750 or 'Treaty of Madrid'. The document was signed in the Spanish capital by Ferdinand VI of Spain and John V of Portugal on 13th January 1750. Spain ceded part of Jesuit Paraguay to Portugal, to end to the armed conflict between the Spanish and Portuguese empires in South America. The 'Treaty of Madrid' was significant because ...
Cosmic Principles / Kosmische Prinzipien / Princípios Cósmicos / Principios Cósmicos
Life has always been tough for you. You needed to fight harder than others. You never got what you want. And the harder you try, the worse it gets. You wonder if it has to be this way. You have tried journaling, meditation, affirmations, morning rituals, goal setting techniques, and inspirational quotes. No matter how hard you ...
2013-01-11 New York, USA / You can make a Difference / Du kannst einen Unterschied Machen / Você pode fazer a Diferença / Tu puedes hacer la Diferencia
I feel very strongly, that it is not enough to just live in the World as it is and just take what you are given, to follow the things that adults told you to do … and that Society tells you to do. I think you should always be questioning. I take this very scientific attitude ...
This is not a Lecture / Dies ist keine Vorlesung / Isto não é uma Conferência / Esto no es una Conferencia
This is not a lecture. Nor is it a form of entertainment. We are going to talk over together in conversation about the whole of our existence from the moment we are born till we die. In that period of time, whether it be 50 years or 90 years or 100 years, we go through all ...
Turn promises into Reality / Verwandle Versprechen in Realität / Transformar promessas em Realidade / Convierte promesas en Realidad
More than 90% of all children are enrolled in school, even in developing countries. Thanks to digitalization we are more interconnected with each other than ever before. Knowledge and ideas flow throughout the World and transcend all previous boundaries. At the same time, the World is younger than ever. Almost half of the World’s population is younger ...
Who was I / Wer war Ich / Quem era Eu / Quien era Yo
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Nietzsche Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is critical. You need to know your faults to remove them. This requires honest self-reflection, including asking difficult questions. Who was I? Who do my parents say I am? Who do my ...
We are unknowing Poets / Wir sind unwissende Dichter / Nós somos poetas Ignorantes / Somos poetas Ignorantes
I am referring to a kind of experience, a kind of state of Consciousness which seems to be as prevalent among Human beings as measles. It is something that simply happens, and we do not know why it happens. And although there are all sorts of techniques which claim to be able to promote it, and ...
2014-01-06 Alter do Chao, Brazil / Sun goes Down / Die Sonne geht Unter / Sol se Põe / El sol se Pone
If you are looking for trouble, you will be sure to find it when the sun goes down. If you are looking for Love, you will be sure to find it when the sun goes down. If you are looking for a star, you will be sure to find it when the sun goes down. If you are looking for the ...
I do not like the human Race / Ich mag die Menschheit Nicht / Eu não gosto da raça Humana / No me gusta la raza Humana
Short-sighted with our planet Earth, dominated by natural instincts that are no longer productive, neophobic, vulnerable to irrationalism and cognitive errors in thinking and statistics, led by an instinctive Love of salty and fatty foods: We are also massively overpopulated. Far too many individuals, in a species that could do with a little more self-reflection, and a ...
Anyone who remembered you is Gone / Alle die sich an Dich erinnert haben sind Fort / Quem se lembrou de você é Ido / Quien se acordó de ti se ha Ido
Do not be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You do not have to live forever; you just have to live. Your children will die around 30 years after you, and your grandchildren another 30 years after that. 60 years. After that you will be forgotten. All the things you did in your life ...
1960-01-04 Villeblevin, France / Response to the Absurd / Antwort auf das Absurde / Resposta ao Absurdo / Respuesta al Absurdo
Camus died on 4 January 1960 at the age of 46, in a car accident near Sens, in Le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin. In his coat pocket was an unused train ticket. He had planned to travel by train with his wife and children, but at the last minute he accepted his publisher's proposal ...
2008-01-03 Tibau do Sul / Let’s go to the Beach / Lass uns zum Strand Gehen / Vamos à Praia / Vamos a la Playa
400 km of natural beaches, clear, warm waters and constant sunshine, fresh ocean breeze, salt air and palm trees. That is my office. I am working where I am happy. Do not get me wrong, I work hard but it is all at the beach. I am getting paid to drive along the beaches, watch the ocean ...