I am truly a lone traveler and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart. In the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude … How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of ...
Return home in Peace / Heimkehr in Frieden / Voltar para casa em Paz / Regresar a casa en Paz
Your vital energy is returning to the source like a flowing stream returning to ocean. Heaven is our Father, Earth is our Mother. All people are our brothers and sisters and all things are our companions. In this gentle, peaceful journey, you are forming one body with heaven, Earth and all things. Entrust yourself in the transforming and nourishing ...
Face the Facts / Sieh den Tatsachen ins Auge / Encare os Fatos / Enfrenta los Hechos
What I think an awakening really involves, is a re-examination of our common sense. We have got all sorts of ideas built into us, which seem unquestioned, obvious. And our speech reflects them; its common phrases. 'Face the facts.' As if they were outside you. As if life were something they simply encountered as a foreigner. ...
Toxic Thoughts / Giftige Gedanken / Pensamentos Tóxicos / Pensamientos Tóxicos
When someone hurts you, they can end up occupying your thoughts for hours, days, months or even years. You can not stop thinking about their behavior, and you constantly remember how they looked and what they said. This happens a lot with couples who end their relationship abruptly and results in a cycle of toxic thoughts. Toxic thoughts ...
End of the Paradigm / Ende des Paradigmas / Fim do Paradigma / Fin del Paradigma
The collapse of Wall Street in September 2008 and the continuing financial crisis very clearly signal the end of the paradigm that puts finance above real wealth created by nature and Humans, and puts profits above people and corporations above citizens. This paradigm can only be kept alive with limitless bailouts. It can only be kept ...
What we Are / Was wir Sind / O que Somos / Que somos
Enormous bang, millions of years ago, billions of years ago, which flung all the galaxies into to space. Well, let’s take that just for the sake of argument and say that was the way it happened. It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall – Smash – and all ...
Talking to Trees / Mit Bäumen Sprechen / Falando com Arvores / Hablando con Arboles
Many people in today's World have great material wealth, still they remain unhappy in the depths of their souls. They know they have an abundance of things, but they feel they are missing something. Something they can not buy and that is very important, truly momentous: a reason for being. Money is crucial for survival, just as ...
Scarcity creates Greed / Knappheit schafft Gier / Escassez cria Ganância / Escasez crea Avaricia
Greed is not a fundamental aspect of Human nature. Greed is a consequence of scarcity. If you and I are living in an incredible abundance, such as used to exist 200 years ago - the fish were so thick one the water that it looked like you could walk across the rivers. Under those conditions greed ...
Be mindful of Death / Sei dir des Todes Bewusst / Esteja atento à Morte / Se consciente de la Muerte
Change, and everything is change, nothing can be held on to. To the degree that you go with a stream, you see, you 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 swim with it, go ...
King of the Losers / König der Verlierer / Rei dos Perdedores / Rey de los Perdedores
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play - Friedrich Nietzsche Many people say that men never truly grow up. A boy gets to play; a man does not. Men do not grow up until they are 43 - a full 11 years after women. Men are immature at least into their ...
Nature of Reality / Natur der Wirklichkeit / Natureza da Realidade / Naturaleza de la Realidad
The deterministic Newtonian worldview has dominated psychology and economics and anthropology and political science for the last four hundred years. But this has been coming to a halt in the last fifty years. The old World is made out of objects. When you look at the World you see these objects. There they are right in ...
Higher purpose of Love / Höhere Zweck der Liebe / Maior finalidade do Amor / Mayor propósito del Amor
The real power of Love is connected to your higher purpose in the World. When you give your life to your higher purpose, real Love will naturally emanate from you. If you neglect this and go against your higher purpose, Love will degenerate into frantic desire and fear. Love’s grace and power will be lost. Many people ...
The real meaning of Life / Der wahre Sinn des Lebens / O significado real da Vida / El verdadero significado de la Vida
The real meaning of life has different definition in the eyes of different people. There is not a clear definition for it. For some, life is all about building a family and leading life as it is. For others, life is all about accumulating wealth. For some, life is all about engaging in academic circles. For others, ...
The acceleration of Time / Die Beschleunigung der Zeit / A aceleração do Tempo / La aceleración del Tiempo
This acceleration of time or complexity shows no sign of slowing down. In fact within the fabric of our own lives we can almost daily, hourly, by the minute feel it speeding up taking hold. It is a cliché that time is moving faster and faster; a cliché of the mass media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwAgrcY-wxw But I want to suggest that ...
A silent Conversation / Eine stille Konversation / Uma conversa Silenciosa / Una conversación Silenciosa
Your listening is only a way of waiting until it is your turn to speak. People want more than anything to be heard and understood and will find anyone who provides them that feeling being powerfully charismatic. If you can not resist thinking about what you want to say when listening, focus instead on being silent. You will be ...
What Matters / Was Zählt / O que Importa / Lo que Importa
My grandmother was a wonderful person. She taught me how to play the game Monopoly. She understood that the name of the game is to acquire. She would accumulate everything that she could and eventually she became the master of the board. And eventually, every time, she would take my last dollar and I would quit ...
Take Responsibility / Übernimm Verantwortung / Tomar Responsabilidade / Asume la Responsabilidad
We all must try to understand what is happening. We need to try to understand what is happening. And in my humble opinion ideology is only going to get in your way. Nobody understands what is happening. Not Buddhists, not Christians, not government scientists. No one understands what is happening. So, forget ideology. They betray. They limit. ...
Culture is a mass Hallucination / Kultur ist eine Massenhalluzination / Cultura é uma alucinação em Massa / Cultura es una alucinación Masiva
You are caged by your cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it is worth. So much of what we see, we judge. So much of what we see, we do not like. Racism, sexism, poverty, war, refugee crisis, ideas of privilege. But why ...
Silence and the Jesus Prayer / Stille und das Jesus Gebet / Silêncio e Oração de Jesus / Silencio y la Oración de Jesús
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner - When you pray, you yourself must be silent; let the prayer speak - To achieve silence: this is of all things the hardest and the most decisive in the art of prayer. Silence is not merely negative - a pause between words, a temporary cessation ...
The pain of Separation / Der Schmerz der Trennung / A dor de Separação / El dolor de la Separación
Once longing is awakened within the heart it is the most direct way home. Like the magnet it draws us deep within our own heart where we are made whole and transformed. This is why the Sufi mystics have always stressed the importance of longing. Your whole life must be one of longing. Yet our present Western ...
The End of the World / Das Ende der Welt / O fim do Mundo / El fin del Mundo
For a long time now, humanity has been awaiting the end of the World. The promise of the end of the World has been the archetype of all promises. Every promise made waits for a day, for the last and final day, for the dead-line, which is in fact the day of the end of the ...
The Immeasurable is not of this World / Das Unermessliche ist nicht von dieser Welt / O incompreensível não é deste Mundo / Lo inconmensurable no es de este Mundo
The immeasurable is not of this World; it is not put together by the mind because what the mind has put together, the mind can undo. To understand the immeasurable, which is to enter into a different World altogether, we must understand this World in which we live. This World which we have created and of which ...
Mankind has reached a Crossroads / Die Menschheit hat einen Scheideweg erreicht / Humanidade chegou a uma Encruzilhada / Humanidad ha llegado a una encrucijada
Ancient secret knowledge was destined to be unveiled at the time when mankind could no longer survive without the ancient knowledge. That time is now. The release of this ancient knowledge will trigger a transformation of Consciousness in our World which will impact almost every aspectof life. Ancient cultures tell us that this is a choice each one ...
Love is the absence of Judgement / Liebe ist die Abwesenheit von Urteilsvermögen / O amor é a ausência de Julgamento / El amor es la ausencia de Juicio
Love is a natural state. It does not come and go. It is the ever present baseline, the only truth, but it is only known when nothing disturbs it, when nothing unnatural is temporarily added. Judgment divides and separates, creating a You and I, while Love does not see a difference. The Ego does look upon enlightenment ...
A story of Change / Eine Geschichte der Veränderung / Uma história de Mudança / Una historia de Cambio
A Story of Change - The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new World civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary Human suffering ...