There is no barrier to prevent any individual from expanding into enlightenment. If you really want to go, nothing can stop you. To become enlightened, know that there are no special virtues to acquire. Simply remain conscious. The practice of prolonging your conscious state may not give you the power to control the material World. It ...
Why Fight / Warum Kämpfen / Por que Lutar / Por qué Pelear
Most modern wars are fought over political disagreements, which are pretty shallow, ideological battles. What kind of government are we going to have? Capitalism called communism, or communism called capitalism, or what have you?Those wars are fought out of fear. So we’ll say, 'All right, we’re going to blow those bastards to pieces. We’re afraid ...
What is Love / Was ist Liebe / O que é Amor / Que es el Amor
The ancient Greeks called Love the madness of the gods. It is very easy to fall in Love, the difficulty is to stay in Love. If it is difficult to stay in Love, then it is not the love of your life. It is a Love experience. Love is always beautiful, if it is not beautiful, it is not Love. Love is a state of being. Love is a Human virtue ...
What is Happiness / Was ist Glück / O que é Felicidade / Qué es la Felicidad
In philosophy, happiness refers to the good life, rather than simply an emotion. In psychology, hapiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Despite different philosophies and religions, all Human prayers carry the same message about Love, forgiveness, and tolerance. Since science ...
Money Power Glory / Geld Macht Ruhm / Dinheiro Poder Glória / Dinero Poder Gloria
You will meet people who made more money than most of us and then spent it all. You will meet people who's names you recognize and yet whose own families have forgotten their faces. You will meet people who drive old cars and wear worn-out clothes and are worth millions. You will meet people who want to smash your creativity ...
Peace to mother Gaia / Friede für Mutter Gaia / Paz para mãe Gaia / Paz a la madre Gaia
Thank you for your patience, your fortress, your perseverance, your Love. I apologize, I am sorry for my contribution to your suffering. Dear Mother Gaia, You are the great Earth, you are Terra, you are Gaia; you are this infinitely beautiful blue planet. You are the Earth refreshing Bodhisattva, cool and kind. Your immeasurable patience and endurance makes ...
The Price of Consumerism / Der Preis des Konsums / O preço do Consumismo / El precio del Consumismo
Consumerism is at the heart of the matter. You crave for more and more in life, you do not care about the damage cost or the opportunity loss you might have to sustain. Consumerism undermines your quality of life. Consumerism affects your everyday happiness and psychological health. People whose values center on the accumulation of wealth ...
Take nature as a Teacher / Nimm die Natur als Lehrer / Tome a natureza como Mestre / Toma la naturaleza como Maestra
Seeing nature as a teacher is an element of ancient wisdom. Advice from nature is about listening to nature. The Earth and the sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent teachers, and teach more than you can ever learn from books. Observing nature is always an awe-inspiring, spiritual experience and ...
Out of Balance / Aus dem Gleichgewicht / Fora de Equilíbrio / Fuera de Balance
You have been told that if you only had that coolest, newest car/phone/pair of shoes/you-name-it, you would be happy. But as soon as you get that newest thing that was guaranteed to make you happy, you are told that a new something has just come out and you will never be happy unless you get it ...
This is Us / Das sind Wir / Este somos Nós / Esto somos Nosotros
So tell your children you are sorry for what is going on with the climate, but it is not their fault or yours. Tell them some bad people made it too hard to do anything until it was too late. Tell them you will vote for people that might help with the problem. Tell them to study ...
Life Speaks / Das Leben Spricht / A vida Fala / La Vida Habla
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent. Vocation does not mean a goal ...
It all goes Together / Es geht alles Zusammen / Tudo vai Junto / Todo va Junto
So the relationship between the organism and the environment is transactional. The environment grows the organism, and in turn the organism creates the environment.The organism turns the sun into light, but it requires there to be an environment containing a sun for there to be an organism at all. And the answer to it simply: they're ...
Rich and Poor / Reich und Arm / Rico e Pobre / Rico y Pobre
I am sure most of you could name some of the individuals featured at the top of the Forbes 100 rich list. What about the other end of that list? The Bottom 100, but rather number 6,000,000,001. Most of you would struggle to name someone who was at the other end. When you think of the poor, ...
Everyone has a Story / Jeder hat eine Geschichte / Todo mundo tem uma Historia / Todos tienen una Historiav
To alleviate suffering and cultivate compassion in your life, one of the first things you need to do is expand your Awareness of what is happening around you. Most of the time, you rush around oblivious of what challenges others are facing in their lives. Too often you stay enclosed within a relatively limited perspective of life ...
The reason we have Poverty / Der Grund warum wir Armut Haben / A razão pela qual nós temos Pobreza / La razón por la que tenemos Pobreza.
Poverty is the state for the majority of the World’s population and nations. Behind the increasing interconnectedness promised by globalization are global decisions, policies, and practices. These are influenced, driven, or formulated by the rich and powerful. These can be leaders of rich countries or other global actors such as multinational corporations, institutions, and influential people. In ...
I have nothing left to Give / Ich habe nichts mehr zu Geben / Não tenho mais nada para Dar / No tengo nada más para Dar
Human greed and the thirst for power. The basic problem is greed and the monetary system that is based on fundamentally flawed and unsustainable principles. It is a complex, messy World you find yourself in. Obsession with perpetual growth and the cracks that are finally appearing in the prevailing economic system is at the root of the ...
Take responsibility for your Life / Übernimm Verantwortung für dein Leben / Assumir a responsabilidade por sua Vida / Assumir a responsabilidade por tu Vida
You are responsible for your life, for your feelings, for you actions, and for every results you get. You are in control of your thoughts. You have the ability to stop thinking about something and to start thinking about something else. Once you take responsibility for your life and actions, you will begin to improve your ability ...
The poison of Greed / Das Gift der Gier / O veneno da Ganância / El veneno de la Avaricia
Greed is a burning desire, an unquenchable thirst, craving, and lust; you want the objects of your desire to provide you with lasting satisfaction so you feel fulfilled, whole, and complete. The poison of greed creates an inner hunger so that you always seem to be striving towards an unattainable goal. You mistakenly believe your happiness is ...
Bless the Water / Segne das Wasser / Abençoe a Agua / Bendiga el Agua
Water came to unify us, not to separate us, but to reconcile us. God gave enough water for everyone and all nations should understand that the water is for everyone, the Humans, the animals, the Earth, the birds. Water is the one thing that ties us together.Ihab Bhala, Sufi Mystic To most cultures water is our ...
The world is running out of Water / Der Welt geht das Wasser Aus / O mundo está ficando sem Agua / El mundo se está quedando sin Agua
Even people who believe in climate change are climate change deniers: you might know, intellectually, that our World is coming to an end. But it is hard to truly register this fact, the same way you both do and do not believe that you will one day die. Most of us are asleep, no matter how ...
Our greatest Delusion / Unsere größte Delusion / Nosso maior Delírio / Nuestro mayor Delusion
In Budhism impermanence is an undeniable and inescapable fact of Human existence from which nothing that belongs to this Earth is ever free. There are five processes on which no Human being has control and which none can ever change. These five processes are namely, the process of growing old, of not falling sick, of dying, of ...
You’ve lived an ordinary Life / Du hast ein gewöhnliches Leben Gelebt / Você viveu uma vida Comum / Has vivido una vida Ordinaria
You have this fear you will find out near the end of your life that you have just had an ordinary life. What you would have thought was an exciting life, one that you would have never traded for anyone else's life. But it turned out, it has been just plain boring. While you're in it, life seems ...
Network Earth / Netzwerk Erde / Terra da Rede / Red Tierra
Things tend to get only a little bit bad before suddenly the whole system collapses. Network relationships connect all species on Earth. Remove one or two species, and the network compensates as if nothing has happened. Remove enough, and an entire ecosystem dies. Managing the interconnected Earth requires joint efforts across an extraordinary breadth of expertise. Scientists are ...
Novelty / Neuheit / Novidade / Novedad
Novelty is the quality of being new, or following from that, of being striking, original or unusual. The brain is built to ignore the old and focus on the new. Novelty is probably one of the most powerful signals to determine what we pay attention to in the World. Novelty causes a number of brain systems to ...
We are who we Become / Wir sind wer wir Werden / Nós somos quem nos Tornamos / Somos quienes nos Convertimos
What you become can transcend the limitations of what you have been, but you must change your thinking in order for that to happen. - I am not as interested in who you are as I am in who you can become because that is where you have the opportunity to be the kind of 'I ...