Mathematics does not have a clearly defined, universally accepted definition. However it is safe to say that anything that studies the interaction between quantities, variables, structure, and change, is mathematics. Mathematics is not a tangible thing, but actually an abstract concept. There are many ways of expressing mathematics; the one you are probably most familiar ...
Eternal Annihilation / Ewige vollständige Vernichtung / Aniquilação Eterna / Aniquilación Eterna
If hell was a place where you were destroyed and then ceased to exist (ie. you are annihilated - totally destroyed), then that means you would suffer no eternal consequences for your crimes. It means that you may as well eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you die and ceas to exist. Non-existence can not be ...
Nationalism vs Globalism / Nationalismus vs Globalismus / Nacionalismo vs Globalismo / Nacionalismo vs Globalismo
Globalization, nationalism, and the relations between them have been the subjects of debate for many years. The World has become very different from what it was, because of globalization. It is the struggle of nationalism against globalism, and it will be fought out, not only among nations, but within nations. As the World becomes interdependent, the fate of ...
1975-08-09 Moscow, Russia / Eyes Wide Shut / Augen weit Geschlossen / De olhos bem Fechados / Ojos bien Cerrados
Eyes wide shut for ladies is the only way they can affectively tune in with their partner. Lean in, close your eyes, and kis . No matter how kisses differ in partners, in levels of passion, it seems as if ladies have all been trained to never (repeat: never) open their eyes during a kiss. Humans are not ...
Creative Chaos / Kreatives Chaos / Caos Criativo / Caos Creativo
Creative thinking involves dual and often opposing qualities such as convergence and divergence, control and abandon, order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty. Consider what you are doing when you plan your day, your week, your year: you are trying to exert control over life, and predict with your plans the course your life will take today, ...
Everybody is the ultimate Reality / Jeder selbst ist die ultimative Realität / Todo mundo é a realidade Final / Todos son la realidad Final
The ultimate reality is the absolute nature of all things, a personal being (a personal and loving God), an impersonal being (all personal beings), or an eternal truth or principal that governs the universe. All three are just different manifestations of the same ultimate reality. No matter how much you know about ultimate reality and how much you ...
The invisible Power / Die unsichtbare Macht / O poder Invisível / El poder Invisible
Consumerism is the invisible power which makes the World go round and money is its fuel. All moral codes and ethical values are being obliterated. The formula for success is money and material possessions. Kindness, loyalty, honesty are useless traits. Love, intimacy, beauty, the most sacred virtues are denied and replaced by the mere lust for ...
Awakening The Mind / Den Geist Erwecken / Despertar a Mente / Despertar la Mente
To awaken is to step out of your identification with thinking by becoming present. It is a shift in Consciousness where thinking and Awareness separate. There is no more worthy goal in Human life than awakening your mind. Awakening changes the way you live and relate to the people and the world around you. Awakening changes how we think ...
1875-08-04 Copenhagen, Denmark / The Nightingale / Die Nachtigall / O Rouxinol / El Ruiseñor
Hans Christian Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, who have been translated into more than 125 languages, and have become culturally embedded in the West's collective Consciousness. Accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and ...
Do not forget Nature / Vergiss die Natur Nicht / Não se esqueça da Natureza / No te olvides de la Naturaleza
The debate about climate change is no longer occurring in the scientific community. Qualified climate scientists have long since unanimously agreed that the evidence of climate change is overwhelming, and that Human activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, is its main cause. Carbon dioxide has reached record high atmospheric levels. This has led to shrinking polar ...
The gap is Widening / Die Kluft vergrößert Sich / A lacuna está se Ampliando / La brecha se está Ampliando
The combined fortunes of the World's 26 richest individuals reached $1.4 trillion last year - the same amount as the total wealth of the 3.8 billion poorest people. The year before, it was the top 43 people and the year before that, it was the top 62 people. Billionaires, who now number a record 2,208, have ...
1976-08-02 Beverly Hills, USA / Snake Dance / Schlangentanz / Dança Cobra / Danza de la serpiente
Fritz Lang was approaching blindness during the production of 'The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse' and it was his final project as director. He died from a stroke in on August 2nd, 1976. After emigrating to the US in 1936, the 'Master of Darkness' had returned to Germany in 1959 to make his 'Indian Epic' (consisting of 'The ...
Return to Paradise / Zurück ins Paradies / Regresso ao Paraíso / Regreso al Paraiso
Fiji really is the tropical paradise of your dreams. Endless white sandy beaches lined with coconut palms in the warm waters of the Pacific. Coral reefs with an abundance of sea creatures of every size and shape. The promise of a tropical paradise comes true, but that is not all. It is all about relaxing. Your choice ...
1944-07-31 Île de Riou, France / The little Prince / Der kleine Prinz / Le petit Prince / El Principito
On 30 December 1935, at 2:45 a.m., after 19 hours and 44 minutes in the air, Saint-Exupéry, along with his mechanic-navigator André Prévot, crashed in the Libyan desert, during an attempt to break the speed record in a Paris-to-Saigon air race and win a prize of 150,000 francs. Both Saint-Exupéry and Prévot miraculously survived the crash, only to ...
Today is Yours / Heute ist Dein / Hoje é Seu / Hoy es Tuyo
Congratulations! Today is your day. You are off to great places! You are off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You are on your own. And you know what you know. And will decide where to go. You will look up and ...
Look without Seeing / Schau ohne zu sehen / Olhe sem Ver / Mira sin Ver
Most of us sense that the Earth is more than a sphere of rock with a thin layer of air, ocean and life covering the surface. We feel that we belong here as if this planet were indeed our home. Long ago the Greeks, thinking this way, gave to the Earth the name Gaia. In those ...
We are not designed to be Happy / Wir sind nicht dafür geschaffen glücklich zu Sein / Não somos projetados para ser Felizes / No estamos diseñados para ser Felices
A huge happiness and positive thinking industry has created the fantasy that happiness is a realistic goal. Chasing the happiness dream is a very American concept, exported to the rest of the World. 'The pursuit of happiness' is one of the US’s 'unalienable rights'. Unfortunately, this has helped to create an expectation that real life stubbornly ...
End Of Emotions / Ende der Gefühle / Fim das Emoções / Fin de las Emociones
Relationships are now becoming obsolete since few past years. People are moving towards the no strings attached theme. Relationship without having any emotions at all regarding your partner has gained much popularity as nowadays, no one has so much time to deal with the typical relationship. Emotions are not a mistake. It is the manifestation of hundreds ...
The mystery of Sadness / Das Geheimnis der Traurigkeit / O mistério da Tristeza / Le Mystère de la Tristesse
Mystics speak of a great sorrow in contemplation. It is very common in our modern times to have an intense aversion to any talk of spiritual sadness as a virtue. We have a prevailing feeling that spirituality must always be uplifting and positive. This tendency arises out of a confusion about what Love truly is. We ...
Positive attitude and being Smart / Positive Einstellung und Klug / Atitude positiva e ser Inteligente / Actitud positiva y ser Inteligente
If you walk into a room today filled with 25 women, how many of them do you think find themselves attractive. One. That is right, only One. This is not fiction or an isolated phenomenon either. The large majority of women fail to find themselves beautiful. Only 4% of women find themselves beautiful and that anxiety about looks ...
Other people can’t make you happy / Andere Leute können dich nicht glücklich Machen / Outras pessoas não podem te fazer Feliz / Otras personas no pueden hacerte Feliz
If you hope that other people will make you happy, you have put your happiness into very risky hands. Other people will sooner make you miserable than happy, when you put your happiness in their hands. You may assume that you will be happy when you fall in Love with the right person. Someone who will really ...
The perfect Paradise / Das perfekte Paradies / O paraíso Perfeito / El paraiso Perfecto
Have you spent a lot of time thinking about why you do what you do? It is a simple question. But this simple question is more important than you think. Why you do what you do comes naturally, once you are able to recognize who and what you truly are. Awareness of what makes your heart beat. It ...
The river of Life / Der Fluss des Lebens / O rio da Vida / El rio de la Vida
Rather than enjoying the concert firsthand, the Ego takes pictures and films the concert, so it can talk about it and share the pictures later. The river of life is forever flowing, but for the Ego, whose very existence is dependent upon freezing this stream of change, fluctuation is terrifying, which is why we call it ...
Who owns the Moon / Wem gehört der Mond / Quem é o dono da Lua / Quien posee la Luna
Claiming new national territories had been very much a European habit, applied to non-European parts of the World. In particular the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the French and the English created huge colonial empires. In the 1967 the United States and the Soviet Union agreed that colonization on Earth had been responsible for tremendous Human suffering ...
1969-07-20 Moon, Universe / The first Moonwalk / Der erste Spaziergang auf dem Mond / Primeira caminhada na Lua / Primer paseo en la Luna
It is 9:30 p.m. Houston time on July 20, 1969. Armstrong and Aldrin put on their moon suits and prepare to take the first steps on the moon. Armstrong is the first to step out of the Eagle. He lowers a small drawbridge that holds a TV camera. Now the World can watch as he backs down ...