The mind is divided into two aspects, the conscious and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is made up of your surface thoughts, wishes, desires and aspirations. The subconscious mind is the realm of your automatic and habitual thought patterns and beliefs – the stuff you do when you do not even know you are doing ...
Your time is Limited / Deine Zeit ist Begrenzt / Seu tempo é Limitado / Tu tiempo es Limitado
My third story is about death. When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror ...
Be absolutely willing to Die / Sei absolut bereit zu Sterben / Esteja absolutamente disposto a Morrer / Estar absolutamente dispuesto a Morir
Change – and everything is change; nothing can be held on to – to the degree that you go with a stream, you see, you are are still, you are flowing with it. But to the degree you resist the stream, then you notice that the current is rushing past you and fighting you. So ...
The essence of all Things / Die Essenz aller Dinge / A essência de todas as Coisas / La esencia de todas las Cosas
The mind can be the worst of prisons. We all have the desire to experience the World around us - to feel, move, and surrender to our senses and passions. Fear, anxiety, and self-doubt are forces that keep us from living our lives to the fullest. Akasha is trapped between these two Worlds of freedom and constraint, ...
Escaping Earth / Von der Erde Fliehen / Escapar da Terra / Escapando de la Tierra
With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious. We are now consuming Earth’s resources at a very alarming rate to support our industries and daily needs and this is leading us towards a future where we have depleted all of Earth’s resources. Even though some of our resources ...
You are the Earth / Du bist die Erde / Você é a Terra / Tu eres la Tierra
At this very moment, the Earth is above you, below you, all around you, and even inside you. The Earth is everywhere. You may be used to thinking of the Earth as only the ground beneath your feet. But the water, the sea, the sky, and everything around you comes from the Earth. Everything outside you ...
Global sorrow of Mankind / Globales Leid der Menschheit / Tristeza global da Humanidade / Tristeza global de la Humanidad
On dark days, the sun still rises. In the darkest night, the moon still shines in a sky of stars. On a day of global sorrow, somebody will be born and her parents will be glad. And so it goes, if you have a wedding, rejoice. If today is your birthday, do not be afraid to celebrate. ...
We are a species Addicted / Wir sind eine süchtige Spezies / Nós somos uma espécie Viciada / Somos una especie Adicta
Our unhappy addicted Ego driven condition has become not simply the source of our own unhappiness that was bad enough but now its the source of great discomfort and dislocation for all life and Human Society on the planet. We are out of control. We are basically severely addicted to things, and can not stop ourselves. ...
Question of Life and Death / Frage von Leben und Tod / Questão de vida e Morte / Cuestión de vida y Muerte
Where are Ukraine's refugees going? The UN says that more than 4.3 million people have left Ukraine: Poland has taken in 2,514,504 refugees, Romania 662,751, Hungary 404,021, Moldova 401,704, Russia 350,632, Slovakia 304,983 and Belarus 18,060. What can get lost in the magnitude of the World refugee crisis are the real, Human stories of loss, fear, hope and ...
Plant the Seed in People / Pflanze den Samen in Menschen / Plantar semente em Pessoas / Planta la semilla en las Personas
There is nothing more rewarding in life than helping others to achieve their goals and to make their dreams come true. There is an awesome feeling that you get when you pass on what you have learned throughout the years to someone who is just coming up. This is called planting a seed in someone's life. It is ...
Humans are capable of Greatness / Menschen sind der Größe Fähig / Seres humanos são capazes de Grandeza / Los humanos son capaces de Grandeza
We were hunters and foragers. The frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the Earth, and the ocean, and the sky. The open road still softly calls. Our little terraqueous globe as the madhouse of those hundred thousand millions of Worlds. We, who cannot even put our own planetary home in order, riven with ...
Our treasured Planet / Unser geschätzter Planet / Nosso valioso Planeta / Nuestro valioso Planeta
Throughout history, humanity has been guided through life by the wisdom carried in the voices of their ancestors. Their unique knowledge provided blueprints on the importance of living in harmony with our venerable Mother Earth and her various children, as well as how this can be done. Today many of these voices are no longer being heard ...
Being aware of what Is / Sich bewusst sein was Ist / Estar ciente do que É / Ser consciente de lo que Es
The easiest way to get into the meditative state is to begin by listening. If you simply close your eyes and allow yourself to hear all of the sounds that are going on around you. Just listen to the general Hum and Buzz of the World as if you were listening to music. Don’t try ...
Life is a beautiful Sport / Das Leben ist ein schöner Sport / A vida é um esporte Bonito / La vida es un deporte Hermoso
You want your life to matter. You want to live a satisfying, fulfilling, and purposeful life. This is not just a selfish desire. The feeling of a certain amount of significance in your life is healthy. It is good for your experience. There is a healthy satisfaction that comes from contributing to the World around you. ...
From the children of planet Earth / Von den Kindern des Planeten Erde / Dos filhos do planeta Terra / De los hijos del planeta Tierra
Earth is destroying itself. Help us! Please help! Send better knowledge. Taken from a bulletin board where kids were invited to post messages they want to convey to aliens. Several of them were pleas for help. This child’s missive was especially poignant. Scientists are the smartest astronomers and physicists in the World. But they need ...
Awake or Dreaming / Wach oder Träumend / Acordado ou Sonhando / Despierto o Soñando
I wonder, I wonder, what you would do if you had the power to dream at night any dream you wanted to dream and you would of course be able to alter your time sense, and slip, say 75 years of subjective time into 8 hours of sleep. You would, I suppose, start out by fulfilling ...
Time Is The Enemy / Zeit ist der Feind / Tempo é o Inimigo / Tiempo es el Enemigo
Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. Ancient cultures such as Incan, Mayan, Hopi, and other Native American Tribes - plus the Babylonians, Ancient Greeks, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and others - have a concept of a wheel of ...