You can be an do your best and still fail. You can be attractive and not get called back. You can be qualified and not get the job (just as you can be unqualified and get the job). Understanding that much of life is out of your control frees you from arrogance when things go rightly, and from total ...
Walk this Walk / Geh diesen Gang / Ande esta Caminhada / Camina este Caminata
Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Do not just talk that talk, walk that walk and go forward. You either go forward in life making changes based on being inspired by a new thought or find yourself being pressured by a situation you can no longer tolerate. Change occurs when the pain of remaining ...
Life is an Interval / Das Leben ist ein Intervall / A vida é um Intervalo / La vida es un Intervalo
Like waves, life is an interval. There is no point in resisting because like a drop of water arriving at the edge of a waterfall, there is nowhere to go but over. It is pointless to resist when it is time. You spend your entire life fearing something that is inevitable. This fear forces you to ...
Ups and Downs / Höhen und Tiefen / Altos e Baixos / Altos y Bajos
One thing for certain in life is that it has both its ups and downs. A myth however is that happiness is based on the quantity of these ups and downs, the more good moments you have rather than bad moments, then the more happy you will be overall. Life is not about the quantity of ups and downs, ...
The game of Life / Das Spiel des Lebens / O jogo da Vida / El juego de la Vida
The original Game of Life was depressing. Really depressing. When we think of the Game of Life, the glossy American dream of buying a house, piling kids in the car, and becoming a millionaire comes to mind. But it was not always that way. The Game of Life is more than 150 years old, and its early ...
Stop consuming our Culture / Hör auf unsere Kultur zu Konsumieren / Pare de consumir nossa Cultura / Deja de consumir nuestra Cultura
We have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture. Do not watch TV, Do not read magazines. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are - Now - is the most immediate sector of your universe. And if you are worrying about somebody else, about some type of music ...
Social Media Silence / Social Media Stille / Mídia Social Silêncio / Redes Sociales Silencio
Even when people are physically in the same room as one another, they are updating their status, following someone on twitter, texting, sexting, checking their email, googling something. Someone just said, looking up a video on YouTube, posting a picture they just took – all in between sentences. We are texting when we should be having ...
A better connected World / Eine besser vernetzte Welt / Um mundo melhor Conectado / Un mundo mejor Conectado
As mankind evolved over many thousands of years, communication with each other has changed beyond recognition. Since the dawn of time, man’s first gestures to each other gradually led to the painting of symbols on cave walls. Then into languages, characters and thought processes, and then on to today’s digital tools, all steps towards greater connection. No matter ...
It’s all about Love / Es geht um Liebe / É tudo sobre Amor / Es todo sobre Amor
Life is very simple – Love is all that matters. Love is the most amazing thing in your life. It is what makes you Human, what makes your life worth living. Nothing else truly matters. Love does not make the World go around but it makes the ride worthwhile. The World today is just not working. You need ...
Trapped in Time / In der Zeit Gefangen / Preso no Tempo / Atrapado en el Tiempo
We are trapped in time. You are carried in it with no detours from one moment to the next, from today into tomorrow, from this year into next, from summer to winter, from birth to death. And apparently we are stuck at one spot in it: the present. Time has us pinned to the now. Neither ...
Does the Now Exist / Gibt es das Jetzt / Existe o Agora / Existe el Ahora
Now is a non-existing point in space, without space or time. Now can not be comprehended through sensory experience and it does not exist in a physical reality. Now is the point where each moment arrives and passes back into space but Now does not come or go. Who you truly are is not bound by ...
No fear in the Now / Keine Angst im Jetzt / Nenhum medo no Agora / Ningún miedo en el Ahora
Regret and worry are both fear. Regret looks to the past and worry looks to the future. Fear is a function of your Ego. Your Ego is fear-based. That is why fear seeks to control. Fear seeks to control you so that it can use you to control your environment. Of course fear never achieves complete ...
Giving is Living / Geben ist Leben / Doár e Viver / Dar es Vivir
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. - Chinese saying There are moments in your life when you realize the true meaning of life and ...
MindShift is about You / MindShift geht um Dich / MindShift é sobre Você / MindShift se trata de Ti
MindShift is about You engaging in the process of Evolution, seeing parts of a greater whole, valuing diversity as a strength. engaging with conflict not as something to be fought and won, but rather as an opportunity to realize new and creative possibilities. Expanding Your identity as a Human in the web of life and functioning at higher ...
We are One / Wir sind Eins / Nós somos Um / Somos Uno
He was the sixth person to walk on the moon. On the trip home Dr. Mitchell sat in the window seat of the space capsule. As he saw Earth floating freely in the vastness of space, a profound sense of universal connectedness engulfed him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Kzs9wGlYI The presence of divinity became almost palpable, and I knew that life in ...
Modern Humans / Moderne Mensch / Homen Modernp / Hombre Moderno
Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the Human tribe, a branch to the family of great apes. Early Humans, whose brains are more similar to ancestral non-human apes used fire, occupied much of Eurasia, and gave rise to Modern humans in Africa about 200,000 years ago. Around 50,000 years ago, in several waves ...
The place where we are Alive / Der Ort an dem wir Leben / O lugar onde estamos Vivos / El lugar donde estamos Vivos
I want to raise Awareness of our wonderful planet Earth which we have the privilege to be part of. That is why we have to take responsibility for it - for the place where we are alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z1eMy2FoX4 Environmental Awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. Environmentalism is an ideology ...
The stillness is You / Die Stille bist Du / A quietude é Você / La quietud eres Tu
You are constantly looking at your smartphone, you are up all night on social media, you are low on energy, you have a busy mind and you are considering doing meditation to find more balance in life. You have heard a lot about meditation but you are just not sure what it is all about. ...
Are you awake Now / Bist du jetzt Wach / Você está acordado Agora / Estas despierto Ahora
You go through life with so many false notions – of the World, of spirituality and of yourself. You build up masks and you believe the facades. It is all a charade. It is all based upon illusions and deceit. You deceive yourself at every moment, and the World also deceives you at every moment. You ...
Happiness does not Wait / Das Glück wartet Nicht / A felicidade não Espera / La felicidad no Espera
The best time to be happy is always now. You want the future to come, because it is better there. The future is an illusion. It is just a concept in your head. When it arrives, it will arrive as the present moment. If you are not here and now, you will miss it. You will keep ...
More important than Happiness / Wichtiger als Glück / Mais importante que a Felicidade / Mas importante que la Felicidad
The stereotype of world travelers is the upper-middle-class kid who goes to some random, third-world country, sees a bunch of poor, half-naked kids joyfully playing in sewage puddles with toys made out of string and broken sticks. And suddenly has the life-changing epiphany that, 'No', you do not in fact need an XBox 360 and 24-hour ...
Success is not Happiness / Erfolg ist kein Glück / Sucesso não é Felicidade / Exito no es Felicidad
You may confuse happiness with accomplishments. When you achieve something new, when there is a new accomplishment to add to your success list, you probably feel happy. Only for a while. You tend to forget every one of your accomplishments very quickly and every failure sticks with you much longer. Your brain prefers to remember all your failures rather than ...
Create Yourself / Erschaffe Dich Selbst / Crie você Mesmo / Créate a ti Mismo
If you can not find what you want, create it. If you can not find yourself, create yourself. Be somebody who reminds everybody of nobody. Be brilliant. Be the first. Be interesting. Be unusual. Be an expert. Always be better than yesterday but never as good as tomorrow. Make an impact. Leave a mark. Show ...
Grow in wisdom and Compassion / Wachse in Weisheit und Mitgefühl / Cresça em sabedoria e Compaixão / Crecer en sabiduría y Compasión
The accumulation of material wealth and large bank accounts mean nothing at the moment of death. In actuality, the entirety of life is a preparation for dying. Living totally in the present moment allows you to create a fulfilled life and to face your impending death openly and with dignity. The realization that death can arrive ...
Hate is a Desease / Hass ist eine Krankheit / O ódio é uma Doença / El odio es una Enfermedad
Hate is a disease you catch from others who are already infected. It is contagious, virulent, and can be fatal. As with most diseases, the earlier it is discovered the better the prognosis for recovery. The patient must take active steps to remove the infection through diligent efforts and repeated application of antidotes as well as avoid ...