Consumerism is at the heart of the matter. You crave for more and more in life, you do not care about the damage cost or the opportunity loss you might have to sustain. Consumerism undermines your quality of life. Consumerism affects your everyday happiness and psychological health. People whose values center on the accumulation of wealth ...
Take nature as a Teacher / Nimm die Natur als Lehrer / Tome a natureza como Mestre / Toma la naturaleza como Maestra
Seeing nature as a teacher is an element of ancient wisdom. Advice from nature is about listening to nature. The Earth and the sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent teachers, and teach more than you can ever learn from books. Observing nature is always an awe-inspiring, spiritual experience and ...
Out of Balance / Aus dem Gleichgewicht / Fora de Equilíbrio / Fuera de Balance
You have been told that if you only had that coolest, newest car/phone/pair of shoes/you-name-it, you would be happy. But as soon as you get that newest thing that was guaranteed to make you happy, you are told that a new something has just come out and you will never be happy unless you get it ...
This is Us / Das sind Wir / Este somos Nós / Esto somos Nosotros
So tell your children you are sorry for what is going on with the climate, but it is not their fault or yours. Tell them some bad people made it too hard to do anything until it was too late. Tell them you will vote for people that might help with the problem. Tell them to study ...
Life Speaks / Das Leben Spricht / A vida Fala / La Vida Habla
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent. Vocation does not mean a goal ...
It all goes Together / Es geht alles Zusammen / Tudo vai Junto / Todo va Junto
So the relationship between the organism and the environment is transactional. The environment grows the organism, and in turn the organism creates the environment.The organism turns the sun into light, but it requires there to be an environment containing a sun for there to be an organism at all. And the answer to it simply: they're ...
Rich and Poor / Reich und Arm / Rico e Pobre / Rico y Pobre
I am sure most of you could name some of the individuals featured at the top of the Forbes 100 rich list. What about the other end of that list? The Bottom 100, but rather number 6,000,000,001. Most of you would struggle to name someone who was at the other end. When you think of the poor, ...
Everyone has a Story / Jeder hat eine Geschichte / Todo mundo tem uma Historia / Todos tienen una Historiav
To alleviate suffering and cultivate compassion in your life, one of the first things you need to do is expand your Awareness of what is happening around you. Most of the time, you rush around oblivious of what challenges others are facing in their lives. Too often you stay enclosed within a relatively limited perspective of life ...
The reason we have Poverty / Der Grund warum wir Armut Haben / A razão pela qual nós temos Pobreza / La razón por la que tenemos Pobreza.
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 ...
The poison of Greed / Das Gift der Gier / O veneno da Ganância / El veneno de la Avaricia
Greed is a burning desire, an unquenchable thirst, craving, and lust; you want the objects of your desire to provide you with lasting satisfaction so you feel fulfilled, whole, and complete. The poison of greed creates an inner hunger so that you always seem to be striving towards an unattainable goal. You mistakenly believe your happiness is ...
Bless the Water / Segne das Wasser / Abençoe a Agua / Bendiga el Agua
Water came to unify us, not to separate us, but to reconcile us. God gave enough water for everyone and all nations should understand that the water is for everyone, the Humans, the animals, the Earth, the birds. Water is the one thing that ties us together.Ihab Bhala, Sufi Mystic To most cultures water is our ...
The world is running out of Water / Der Welt geht das Wasser Aus / O mundo está ficando sem Agua / El mundo se está quedando sin Agua
Even people who believe in climate change are climate change deniers: you might know, intellectually, that our World is coming to an end. But it is hard to truly register this fact, the same way you both do and do not believe that you will one day die. Most of us are asleep, no matter how ...
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 ...
Network Earth / Netzwerk Erde / Terra da Rede / Red Tierra
Things tend to get only a little bit bad before suddenly the whole system collapses. Network relationships connect all species on Earth. Remove one or two species, and the network compensates as if nothing has happened. Remove enough, and an entire ecosystem dies. Managing the interconnected Earth requires joint efforts across an extraordinary breadth of expertise. Scientists are ...
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 ...
The last One / Der Letzte / O Ultimo / El Ultimo
When animals die out, the last survivor is called an endling. It is a word of soft beauty, heartbreaking solitude, and chilling finality. Endlings are avatars of loss. In the midst of Earth’s sixth mass extinction, these singular creatures embody the crisis facing our dwindling fauna and our failure to avert it. By the time a species is down to ...