Cities are part of the system to keep people alive on Earth. People tend to like cities, and have been congregating in them ever since the invention of agriculture, 10,000 or so years ago. Agriculture made cities possible, by providing enough food to feed a settled crowd on a regular basis. Cities can not work without ...
Ugly truth about modern Life / Hässliche Wahrheit über das moderne Leben / Verdade feia sobre a vida Moderna / La fea verdad sobre la vida Moderna
You use your smartphone twice as much as you think you do, an average of five hours a day - that is roughly one-third of your total waking hours. Do you use your smartphone because you are bored or because you are trying to avoid dealing with stressful or unpleasant things in your life. Excessive smartphone use is ...
Eyes are the mirror of the Soul / Augen sind der Spiegel der Seele / Os olhos são o espelho da Alma / Los ojos son el espejo del Alma
You can tell a true smile from a fake smile by looking at a person's eyes. The mouth shape of a smile is easy to fake - you do it all the time out of politeness. But the eyes are the giveaway: When you are truly happy, you not only smile but also your eyes ...
Escaping from Reality / Flucht vor der Realität / Fugindo da Realidade / Escapar de la Realidad
As fugitive, you go throughout your life escaping from your reality, running and hiding, seeking redemption from this evil reality wandering around alternate realities in order to enter in the realm of sweet dreams where everything is possible. Are you condemned to live your whole life escaping from reality to encounter short periods of bliss in ...
Relationships for your Awakening / Beziehungen für Dein Erwachen / Relacionamentos para o seu Despertar / Relaciones para tu Despertar
Living a spiritual life is a strategy for working on yourself for the benefit of all beings. That is another way of saying that the optimum thing you can do for someone else is to work on yourself - not out of some idealistic sense of altruism, but because getting to Oneness for yourself means resolving ...
My life was Perfect / Mein Leben war Perfekt / Minha vida era Perfeita / Mi vida fue Perfecta
2011 I was 11-years-old when the war started in my country, Syria. I was too young to understand what was happening. Before the war started, my life was perfect, I had everything I wanted, I had many friends, my family and I had spent time together, we were a happy family and no one had ...
2015-06-13 Natal, Brazil / Saint John the Baptist / Johannes der Täufer / São João / Juan el Bautista
Festa Junina, also known as festa de São João for their part in celebrating the nativity of St. John the Baptist, are the anual Brazilian celebrations historically related to European Midsummer that take place in the beginning of the Brazilian winter. As Northeastern Brazil is largely arid or semi-arid these popular festivals not only coincide with ...
How did you get Lost / Wie hast Du Dich Verloren / Como você se Perdeu / Cómo te has Perdido
Your superficiality, alienation, stress, addiction, fear, trauma, depression, insecurity, and abuse are a sad reality. A little less clear is why you are so lost and how did you get lost. The answer is painfully obvious: You detached yourself. For centuries you have been culturally conditioned to mistrust your physical impulses. The western 'Era of Enlightenment' spawned the idea ...
You do not truly need This / Du brauchst das wirklich Nicht / Você não precisa verdadeiramente Disso / Tu realmente no necesita Esto
Consumerism is one of the strongest forces affecting your life. The term ‘consumerism’ does not simply refer to immediate factors in your daily life such as the omnipresence of advertising, but anything connected to the overarching idea in modern Society that in order to be happier, better and more successful you have to have more stuff. The ...
Express yourself every Day / Drück Dich jeden Tag aus / Expresarte todo los Días / Expressarte todos os Dias
When you express yourself in a way that brings out the best in you, you have already succeeded. Step by step you improve. That is what matters. It matters that you persist. Give yourself permision to screw up. And it is okay when you do. Your next action is the most important step you will have ...
Life Talks / Das Leben spricht / A vida Fala / La vida Habla
You watch people on the street and in restaurants and think that their conversations and broad smiles are evidence that they live a life much better than yours. You assume that they are happier than you, smarter than you, and worth more than you. All around you is evidence that this is true: your meager bank ...
2015-06-07 Ponta Negra, Brazil / In the (last) Moment / Im (letzten) Augenblick / No (último) Momento / En el (último) Momento
Life exists only in the moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever ... ... You may believe yourself out of harmony with life and its eternal Now; but you can not be, for ...
A Critical Point In History / Ein kritischer Punkt der Geschichte / Um ponto crítico na História / Un punto crítico en la Historia
One day, if Human civilisation ever wipes itself out, aliens or one of our successors will cast an eye on our ruined planet and ask themselves what ever happened to homo sapiens. The root cause was not a specific catastrophe, conflict or devastation that eradicates us; the problem began with the architecture of the Human brain. For many ...
Wilderness Healing / Wildnisheilung / Cura na Natureza / Cura en la Naturaleza
One of the most detrimental aspects of modern Society is that you spend far too much time on your phone and digital devices. Whenever you are bored, you unconsciously reach for them. You spend a large part of your life on your computer, watching television, checking your smartphone, driving in your car, and sitting at your ...
You are wasting your Life / Du verschwendest Dein Leben / Você está desperdiçando sua Vida / Estás desperdiciando tu Vida
Video games. Reality TV. Surfing the internet. Stuffing your face with too much food. Drinking too much. And the list goes on. Take a serious look at your life. Where are you spending the majority of your time? You complain about your job, your boss, your salary, your neighbors or your spouse. You are doing nothing ...
How to stop Worrying / Wie man aufhört sich zu Sorgen / Como parar de se Preocupar / Cómo dejar de Preocuparse
Worry not only puts a strain on your mental health, but on your physical health, too. While worry itself is not bad, too much of it can lead to anxiety, which can have a lasting impact on health and happiness. The problem with worrying is that it becomes a cycle of self perpetuating negative thoughts, a ...
Cult of Materialism / Materialismus-Kult / Culto do Materialismo / Culto al Materialismo
The philosophy of Materialism is that matter is the fundamental substance in nature. All things, including mental things and Consciousness, are results of material interactions. Materialism is closely related to physicalism, the view that all that exists is ultimately physical. Philosophies contradictory to Materialism or physicalism include idealism, pluralism, dualism, and other forms of monism. Economic Materialism is the importance a person attaches ...
An honest Meditation / Eine ehrliche Meditation / Uma meditação Honesta / Una meditación Honesta
Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of the physical body and the mind. Only when you transcend the limited perspective of the body and the mind do you have a complete dimension of life within you. When you are identified as the body, your whole life is only about survival. Your whole perspective of life will be simply ...
Being part of Nature / Teil der Natur Sein / Fazendo parte da Natureza / Ser parte de la Naturaleza
You can touch it, hear it, taste it, scent it, because you are a part of it. You and nature are very alike and if you can recalibrate your internal compass to include this totality, you might open yourself to the voices, the feelings, the pain, the healing, the insights, the richness, the Love, and the ...
Being the person you want to Be / Die Person sein die Du sein Willst / Ser a pessoa que você quer Ser / Siendo la persona que quieres Ser
Your actions, not your thoughts, are what define who you are. You can plan, you can dream, you can pray, you can think. But at the end of the day, the only way to become the person you want to be is to start being that person. Action is what separate you from who you are ...
Sea turtles are Endangered / Meeresschildkröten sind Gefährdet / As tartarugas marinhas estão em Perigo / Las tortugas marinas están en Peligro
It is estimated that sea turtles have been around for at least 200,000,000 years. At some point, there were around 100 species swimming through the oceans. Nowadays, we can only track seven different species! Sea turtles are relatively defenceless to Human actions, despite what their shell would have you believe. Nearly all species of sea turtles ...
What really matters in Life / Was im Leben wirklich wichtig Ist / O que realmente importa na Vida / Lo que realmente importa en la Vida
What does it feel like to be present? To be here in the now and fully experiencing this moment. Free from any weight of the past or any anticipation of the future. Just free. Free to realize that only you can control how you feel. About anything. Free to see things for what they are and ...
Mindshift / Änderung des Bewusstseins / Cambio de Mentalidade / Cambio de Mentalidad
El cambio de mentalidad es la clave de tu existencia. El resistirse al cambio de mentalidad, creyendo que todo esta bien, que no necesitas, es lo peor para una persona que quiera evolucinar, desarrrollar sabiduria, espiritualidad, prosperar. Solo con tomar conciencia de tu vida de los errores, de reconocer tus falencias, derrotas y pecados y querer ...
Humans are capable of Greatness / Menschen sind zur Größe Fähig / Humanos são capazes de Grandeza / Humanos son capaces de la Grandeza
The Sagan Series is a collection of tribute videos dedicated to the late, great Carl Sagan, American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, author, astrobiologist, best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. The Sagan Series is a breath-taking cinematography and a mesmerising soundtrack lend a powerful scenery to Sagan’s narration from his hit TV series, Cosmos: ...
Playing for Change / Spiel für Wandel / Jogando para Mudança / Jugando para Cambio
Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the World through music. The idea for this project came from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddLd0QRf7Vg Playing For Change was born in 2002 as a shared vision between co-founders, Mark Johnson and Whitney Kroenke, ...