If you strip people of their uniforms, their feathers and their grand-sounding names, they will be like the people anybody else, nobodies. It is the same everywhere: the name, the position, the prestige are what matter. The writer, the artist, the musician, the director, the head of a big company, strip them of their outward show ...
Let go of Expectations / Löse Dich von Erwartungen / Deixe ir as Expectativas / Deja ir las Expectativas
When you are forcing situations and you are controlled by expectations, you can not be free in the present moment. You can not be in flow or be fully present in a tender moment between you and another. With expectations, every experience is bound to the constant effort of working to get, and feeling the emptiness of not ...
Ordinary Madness / Gewöhnlicher Wahnsinn / Loucura Comum / Locura Ordinaria
There are degrees of madness, and the madder you are the more obvious it will be to other people. Most of my life I have hidden my madness within myself but it is there. For instance, some person will be speaking to me of this or that and while this person is boring me with their ...
Consume with Care / Konsumiere mit Sorgfalt / Consuma com Cuidado / Consume con Cuidado
Overconsumption of food is detrimental to our health and the environment. Land degradation, declining soil fertility, unsustainable water use, overfishing and marine environment degradation are all lessening the ability of the natural resource base to supply food. - Leonardo di Caprio Our consumer culture has outgrown the ability to discuss sustainability in a manner that makes ...
Hope in the face of Change / Hoffnung angesichts des Wandels / Esperança em face da Mudança / Esperanza frente al Cambio
Climate change is the new disease of despair. - Choosing hope and stepping up may not be comfortable. Sometimes, it will hurt. You will experience the heartbreak that goes along with failure. You will feel grief at the loss of what you once knew. But the discomfort you experience from stepping up, speaking out and advocating is minimal ...
May you be Blessed / Mögest Du gesegnet Sein / Que você seja Abençoado / Que seas Bendecido
May your illusions be shattered beyond your ability to reassemble them. - May you learn quickly from your failures and successes. - May life treat you how you treat life. - May you reap that which you sow, and may it be highly educational for you. May all of the hidden parts of yourself enter the ...
Is hope Good or Bad / Ist Hoffnung Gut oder Schlecht / Esperança é Boa ou Ruim / Es esperanza Buena o Mala
Hope is a desire for something, combined with an anticipation of it to happen. It is the anticipation of something desired. To hope for something is to make a claim about something significance to you, and so to make a claim about yourself. One opposite of hope is fear, which is the desire for something not to happen, ...
How to run away from Yourself / Wie Du vor dir selbst Davonläufst / Como fugir de Si Mesmo / Cómo huir de Ti Mismo
Look after yourself, be kind to yourself, spoil yourself as though you were your own very best friend. Take some time to think if you are running away from yourself and be kind to the most important person in your life, You. Everything you can become lies on the other side. Of you. Compassion lies on the other side of anger. Love lies ...
We can be the Changers / Wir können die Veränderer Sein / Nós podemos ser os Cambiadores / Podemos ser los Cambiadores
To bring the natural system into balance, a new economy that is sustainable and respects the limits of natural resources and the functions of ecosystems is fundamental. This requires a shift in how we value, use and dispose of resources, creating a circular system, as in nature. Earth’s ecosystems have evolved for millions of years, resulting in ...
Loss of Self Control / Verlust der Selbstkontrolle / Perda de Autocontrole / Pérdida de Autocontrol
Having a little self control can save you from a lot of miseries, adversities, and errors. Self control is all about doing the right thing even when you do not like it. It involves shunning instant gratification and disallowing the demonic side of you from taking over. Self control is often referred to as willpower. It allows you to direct your attention despite the ...
Mass Surveillance System / Massenüberwachungssystem / Sistema de vigilância em Massa / Sistema de vigilancia Masiva
You can be identified by your heartbeat and your gait. You can be identified by your fingerprints and iris patterns. And you can always be identified by your smartphone broadcast unique number called MAC addresse. And more things that identify you as well: your phone number, your credit card number, the license plates on your car. Once you are identified, the data about who ...
The desire to feel intensely Again / Der Wunsch wieder intensiv zu Fühlen / O desejo de sentir intensamente Novamente / El deseo de sentir intensamente Otra Vez
I am tired of the idea of living today as if it were my last day. What about living today as if it were my first day. I love to remember. I love to slip away from reality and go somewhere I have been and stay a while there inside my yesterdays. But instead of remembering, how ...
What comes after Capitalism / Was kommt nach dem Kapitalismus / O que vem depois do Capitalismo / Lo que viene después del Capitalismo
After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has evaporated. Today's World has become a World defined by declining growth, oligarchic rule, a shrinking public sphere, institutional corruption and international anarchy, and no cure at ...
Crisis in your Head / Krise in deinem Kopf / Crise na sua Cabeça / Crisis en tu Cabeza
We have entered the information age. The industrial age has come to an end. In the information age, life, jobs, money, and success are much more about who you know, rather than what you know. In the information age, a single instant can change the World, while the World stands by, unable to react to that instant. In the information age, ...
To Battle / In die Schlacht / Para a Batalha / A la Batalla
Warriors love to fight for the sake of fighting. Fighting is just an impulse that some can not control. Fighting satisfies anger, hate, or resentment of an alleged victims. When you fight, you fight for something of value, and should you destroy yourself or that something of value while fighting to obtain it, then you ...
We think too much and feel too Little / Wir denken zu viel und fühlen zu wenig / Pensamos demais e sentimos muito Pouco / Pensamos demasiado y nos sentimos muy Poco
You live in a World where the visual dominates, physicality is the only definition of reality, and the suffering that plagues you most is only that of your own internal thoughts. The World has gone mad as we have all become entrapped within our heads. The tools you use for your own liberation acting against ...
A thing about Life / Eine Sache über das Leben / Uma coisa sobre a Vida / Una cosa sobre la Vida
Is it possible to live in this World without problems and conflict. Is it possible in this crazy World to live a life in which every kind of problem and conflict does not exist. The inquiry into this question requires considerable intelligence, energy and application. So if we think together, go into this problem of whether there ...
A love letter to Cinema / Ein Liebesbrief an das Kino / Uma carta de amor ao Cinema / Una carta de amor al Cine
Cinema has an undeniable power. The power to make you believe. The power to make you feel. The power to make you desire. But all of this would not be possible without beautiful, stunning, striking and memorable visuals. I remember perfectly the first time I met you. It was not the first time I saw you but it was the ...
Order from Chaos / Ordnung aus dem Chaos / Ordem do Caos / Orden del Caos
If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Inherent to the theory is the idea that extremely small changes produce enormous effects, but ones that can only be described fully in retrospect. Accurate prediction is somewhat impossible. There are many great examples of this in nature, and climate change ...
A psalm of Life / Ein Psalm des Lebens / Um salmo da Vida / Un salmo de Vida
No matter what death brings, the soul will never be destroyed. Because of this, it is important to do all you can in life to make your situation, and that of others, better. The soul is immortal. You may sleep for a little while in that change called death, but you can never be destroyed. You ...