Be aware of what is going on in your head, like it was clouds in the sky, or the crackling of the fire. There is no problem to this. All you have to do, really, is look and listen without naming. And if you are naming, nevermind. Now, you can’t force anything here; that you can’t ...
Connect with Earth / Verbinde Dich mit der Erde / Conecte-se com a Terra / Conectarte con la Tierra
When you contemplate the planet Earth, you see that she has many virtues. The first virtue is stability. She is steadfast when faced with challenges and continues to offer perseverance, equanimity, and forbearance in the face of many human-created calamities. The second virtue is that of creativity. The Earth is an inexhaustible source of creativity. She ...
Renewal of your Mind / Erneuerung Deines Geistes / Renovação da sua Mente / Renovación de tu Mente
The key to not wasting your life with success and prosperity is, do not be conformed to this World, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. Nonconformity to the World does not primarily mean external avoidance of worldly behaviors. That is included. But you can avoid all kinds of worldly behaviors and not be transformed. If ...
Learn from your Mistakes / Lerne aus deinen Fehlern / Aprenda com seus Erros / Aprende de tus Errores
The problem with time travel; you dream too big and think going back in time to see dinosaurs (they will eat you) or gladiators (they will kill you) or other important moments in history (they will all be racist). Life sucked back then! You would not want to go back. It is way better to go back ...
Greatness is Within / Größe ist Innerhalb / Grandeza está no Interior / Grandeza está Dentro
Hunger is a condition in which a person is unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs. 842 million people are undernourished (12% of the global population). Malnutrition is a cause of death for more than 3.1 million children under 5 every year. UNICEF estimates 300 million children go to bed hungry each night. 8000 children ...
Mirror of our Soul / Spiegel unserer Seele / Espelho de nossa Alma / Espejo de nuestra Alma
Mirrors have been around since the first man looked into a perfectly motionless pond, seeing in it his own face staring back at him. From the polished metal discs of ancient Greece to our modern full length silver backed glass mirrors, man has had a fascination in observing his own image, seemingly having found the twin ...
The art of Meditation / Die Kunst der Meditation / A arte da Meditação / El arte de la Meditación
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. By thoughts I mean specifically chatter in the skull ... perpetual and compulsive repetition of words ... of reckoning and calculating. I’m not saying thinking is bad. Like everything ...
A part of Nature / Ein Teil der Natur / Uma parte da Natureza / Una parte de la Naturaleza
Respect nature, rely on nature, and irrevocably love nature. Feel lucky that all five of your senses can experience nature. You are part of this genius, crazy unimaginable system that is your source of life, happiness, and stability. As you reflect upon this, conclude that you perceive yourself as part of nature. You are too focused on ...
The gates of Heaven / Die Tore des Himmels / As portas do Céu / Las puertas del Cielo
Even if the gates of the rich are closed, the gates of heaven will never be closed. - We all know that death will most certainly come for every one of us, but no one knows when. It is not a thing we care to think of. It seems so far off, so uncertain and yet, however ...
Thoughts create Reality / Gedanken schaffen Wirklichkeit / Pensamentos criam Realidade / Pensamientos crean Realidad
Keep your thoughts positive,because your thoughts become your words.Keep your words positive,because your words become your behaviours.Keep your behaviours positive,because your behaviours become your habits.Keep your habits positive,because your habits become your values.Keep your values positive,because your values become your destiny. Everything you perceive in the physical World has its origin in the invisible, inner World ...
Dreams of Life / Träume des Lebens / Sonhos de Vida / Sueños de la Vida
There are two kinds of people - the realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going. The dreamers have already been there. Dreams are to go adventure in life, filled with passion, adrenaline, emotionally challenging, fearless, completely fearless. Dreams are an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, your will and your ...
The ideal place is where you Are / Der ideale Ort ist, wo Du Bist / O lugar ideal é onde você Está / El lugar ideal es donde Estas
We have been running around far too much. It's all right; we've been active, and our action has achieved a lot of good things. But the goal of action is contemplation. In other words, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, but what's it all about? Especially when people are busy because they think they're going somewhere, that they're going ...
You’re human, aren’t You? / Du bist menschlich, Oder? / Você é humano, Certo? / Eres humano, Verdad?
You are human. When you are hurting, tell yourself this. You are only human. You are not made up of iron that refuses to break. You are not made up of concrete that withstands strong storms. You are not made up of bricks that refuse to fall even during the darkest of hurricanes. You are allowed to feel. You ...
Divided Souls / Geteilte Seelen / Almas Dividas / Almas Divididas
There is something about self-conscious spirituality: all kinds of religion involving preaching and moralising, and talking to oneself in a split and divided way - good 'I' against bad 'Me' - that is profoundly phoney. Nobody ever transforms himself into an enlightened pattern of life by dividing himself into two pieces: good 'I' and bad 'Me' ...
Of Life and Love / Des Lebens und der Liebe / Da vida e do Amor / De vida y Amor
Do not let the word Love define your Love. Love is the most powerful emotion a Human can experience. Very strange though that almost nobody knows what Love is. The word Love is not the same as your feeling of Love. The word Love is used and abused for the expression of different sets of feelings. The word ...
1 % for the Planet / 1% für den Planeten / 1% para o Planeta / 1% para el Planeta
Climate change is an imminent threat, our food systems are increasingly stressed, and our lands, waters, and species are threatened like never before. If we do not act now, the viability of our planet and our quality of life face an existential threat. There may be no greater, growing threat facing the World’s children – and their ...
If I tell you to wake Up / Wenn ich dir sage Aufzuwachen / Se eu disser para você Acordar / Si te digo que Despiertes
Fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers. The planet needs people who live well in their places. The planet needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the World habitable and humane. And these needs have little to ...
It Is Always Now / Es ist immer Jetzt / Está sempre Agora / Es siempre Ahora
It is always now. I actually want to talk today about death. Now most of us do our best to not think about death. But there's always part of our minds that knows this can't go on forever. Part of us always knows that we're just a doctor's visit away or a phone call away ...
Illusion of Memory / Illusion der Erinnerung / Ilusão de Memória / Ilusión de la Memoria
See, memory is an illusion - it's all gone - so everything you know about, that makes an impression on you, is no longer there. That memory has got you hooked - it holds you to the past, and it holds you to death. But on the other hand, what is life, except there is a memory, ...
We are one Planet / Wir sind ein Planet / Somos um Planeta / Somos un Planeta
We were hunters and foragers, wanderers on the savannahs and the steppes. There were no border guards then, no customs officials. The frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the Earth and the ocean and the sky. Since we first emerged a few million years ago in East Africa, we have meandered our way around ...
Existence as such is Weird / Existenz als solche ist Seltsam / Existência como tal é Estranha / La existencia como tal es Extraña
The reason why certain people turn to philosophy - why I became a philosopher - was that, since I was a little boy, I always felt that existence as such was weird. I mean, here we are - isn’t that odd? Of course it’s odd. What do you mean by odd? Well, it’s what’s different from even. I ...
Selfless / Selbstlos / Altruísta / Altruista
Learning to be selfless in a selfish World. When so many are selfish – and our World has never been so selfish – it is hard not to look inwardly and become selfish too. If you struggle with selfishness, you are not alone. It can be really hard to put others first and yourself second. It takes time ...
Love Now / Liebe Jetzt / Ama Agora / Ama ahora
Real Love you give without expecting anything back, and its the giving that makes you glow inside. Love means patience, Awareness, being present. And also knowing when to receive it too. But do not have any expectations, expectations will make you unhappy. It is magic, but it is not a pill. Treat it as something that is sacred ...
Earth Democracy / Demokratie der Erde / Democracia da Terra / Democracia de la Tierra
We are all members of the Earth community. We all have the duty to protect the rights and welfare of all species and all people. Defending biological and cultural diversity is a duty of all people. No Humans have the right to encroach on the ecological space of other species and other people, or treat them ...
The greatest Skill of All / Die größte Fähigkeit von Allen / A maior habilidade de Todos / La mejor habilidad de Todos
When someone practises their will against the World that is out of rhythm with the cycles of change, they disrupt that harmony and consequences may more likely result rather than the willed outcome. Taoism does not identify one's will as the root problem. Rather, Taoism asserts that one must place their will in harmony with the ...