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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Afterlife Oblivion / Vergessenheit im Nachleben / Oblivion após a Morte / Oblivion después de la Muerte
Each year, as many as 1 out of 5 people whose hearts stop will be revived. The stories that some of them share are often called near-death experiences (NDE). These incidents often feature tunnels leading to a bright light, spiritual encounters, meetings with deceased loved ones, and other things that seem mystical. In some cases, people whose ...
Struggle makes you Stronger / Kampf macht Dich Stärker / Luta faz você mais Forte / La lucha te hace más Fuerte
A good life is a life of struggle. This is because struggle makes you stronger, and strength is the source of freedom. You read about freedom, dream about freedom, rejoice in the notion of freedom, teach, advocate, and hope for freedom. It is interesting that you seek freedom as an end in itself, as a final goal to be ...
Life Is Magic / Leben ist Magie / Vida é Mágica / Vida es Mágica
As a child there was no doubt in your mind that magic and miracles exist. You immersed yourself in a World of wonder and amazing possibilities where you knew you could be, have, or do anything your heart desires. Everything feels like a miracle, from the way planes fly in the sky to going on an ...
The unspeakable World / Die unaussprechliche Welt / O mundo Indizível / El mundo Indescriptible
Everything in the World - knives and forks, tables and chairs, trees and stones - are indescibable. The physical World is the ‘Unspeakable World'. From the standpoint of logic we can not say anything about everything, because in order to say something about something, and state it logically, you have to be able to put it ...
A Dream like This / Ein Traum wie Dieser / Um Sonho como Este / Un Sueño como Este
During lucid dreaming, the dreamer may be able to exert some degree of control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment. Awareness of the dream state. Awareness of the capacity to make decisions. Awareness of memory functions. Awareness of Self, Awareness of the dream environment, Awareness of the meaning of the dream, Awareness of concentration and focus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7RgN9ijwE4 The ...
1972-09-05 Munich, Germany / They are all Gone / Sie sind alle Weg / Eles estão todos Idos / Todos se han Ido
The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, at which eleven Israeli Olympic team members were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4eZWj5sapw Issa turned on the hostages in the eastern helicopter and fired at them with a Kalashnikov assault rifle ...
How to stop Time / Wie man Zeit Stoppt / Como parar o Tempo / Cómo detener Tiempo
Psychological time is the time perceived by a person, while physical time is time as measured by a scientific instrument. Time as measured by an instrument is often different from time perceived by a person. Factors such as boredom, impatience, or simple psychological changes affected psychological perceptions of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw-_DO-KUQk Human beings are the only creatures who hoard their ...
Why don’t you change / Warum änderst Du Dich nicht / Por que Você não Muda / Por que no Cambias
Why don’t you change? What prevents you?If each one of us asks that question … not verbally or merely intellectually as a mere entertainment. But ask that question most seriously and deeply. What’s your answer?What’s your answer to this problem that Human beings have lived this way for millennia upon millennia? Why haven’t they changed? ...
Cry For Love / Schrei nach Liebe / Grito por Amor / Grito por Amor
A master understands that aggression is a cry for Love. It is one thing to see an enemy in the aggressor and try to defend oneself from him, and another thing to see an aggressor as a Human being who is desperate for Love. Aggressive people are deeply unhappy because of the absence of Love in their ...
When you were still far Off / Als du noch weit weg Warst / Quando você ainda estava Longe / Cuando aún estabas Lejos
You imagine yourself way off in the future, or living in a different country or as a different person. The aim is to have that feeling of detachment, of stepping outside yourself, by whatever means you can. You can achieve the greatest heights only through detaching yourself from the things that matter to you to a certain ...
Show me your Friends / Zeig mir deine Freunde / Mostre-me seus Amigos / Muéstrame tus Amigos
Show me your Friends, I will show you your Future. King Solomon put it like this: The one who walks with the wise will become wise, but a companion of fools will suffer harm (Proverbs 13:20). Our future is shaped less by our dreams and ambitions of what we will do eventually, but more by the company ...
Become who you can Become / Werde wer Du werden Kannst / Torne se quem você pode se Tornar / Conviértete en quién puedes Convertirte
On your last day of your life, the person you became will meet the person you could have become. To become the person you can become, you do not need to add more things - you need to give some of them up. There are certain things that are universal, which will make you a better person ...
Life is what you make It / Leben ist das, was Du daraus Machst / A vida é o que você faz Dela / La vida es lo que tu haces de Ella
Your life is what you make it. Your present life is the result of all the choices you have made up until this moment. You are the only one responsible for where you are right now. For how your life looks, for how you are being treated by those around you and for the level of happiness or unhappiness ...
You are the Universe / Du bist das Universum / Você é o Universo / Tu eres el Universo
You suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of your own existence as a living organism. You have the sensation that 'I myself' is a separate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body - a center which confronts an external World of people and things. Everyday speech reflects ...
More beautiful World / Schönere Welt / Mundo mais Lindo / Mundo mas Hermoso
Sometimes you must get lost in order to find your way. African proverb Charles Eisenstein says 'There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.' The story of the past is crumbling away, while the new story has ...
The Loneliness Epidemic / Epidemie der Einsamkeit / A epidemia da Solidão / La epidemia de Soledad
You live in an era in which communication seems simpler than times of the past. In essence, a co-worker is one email away, a friend is one text away, and a loved one is one video chat away. Although communication is easier and faster, connection still is complicated. Despite the practical societal advancements, our technologically advanced time is being ...
Imagine Nothing / Stell Dir nichts Vor / Imagine Nada / Imagina Nada
Imagine nothing. What do you see? Dark empty space empty of galaxies, stars and planets. But not only would there be no matter, there would be no space or time either. Not even darkness. And no sentient life to observe the nothingness. Just ... nothing. Why is there something rather than nothing. Nothing is nonsensical. It is impossible ...
This is your Life / Das ist dein Leben / Esta é sua Vida / Esta es tu Vida
Well, I'd like to be more consistently here, you know. I'd like to really get on ... I'd like to just ... and I know it's not probably maybe possible but because it's so improbable and so impossible, I'd just like to really see how long I can last as being really here, you know, really ...