'Ten Billion' is about us. It is about you, your children, your parents, your friends. It is about every one of us. It is about our failure: failure as individuals, the failure of business, and the failure of our politicians. It is about deforestation, desertification and species extinction. It is about global warming and growing threats ...
The Salt of the Earth / Das Salz der Erde / O Sal da Terra / La sal de la Tierra
Wars have been fought over salt. Soldiers were paid in salt. An important element to your body is salt. Salt was a form of wealth. Salt was used to preserve food. You are the salt of the Earth. You flavor the World. Do not be salt that loses its flavor. Along with the salt comes the light. ...
The present turns into a Memory / Die Gegenwart wird zur Erinnerung / O presente se transforma em uma Memória / El presente se convierte en una Memoria
Once in a while you look up, and watch as the present turns into a memory, as if some future 'You' is already looking back on it. Memory is your past and future. To know who you are as a person, you need to have some idea of who you have been. For better or worse, ...
1982-09-20 Rheydt, Germany / Mad World / Verrückte Welt / Mundo Louco / Mundo Loco
Capitalism is in many respects a mental illness generating system. The World is becoming mad. Many of the current explanations offered by mental health professionals, social epidemiologists, health scientists, neurobiologists, and anthropologists claim it is. Experiences of social isolation, inequality, feelings of alienation and dissociation, and even the basic assumptions and ideology of materialism and neoliberalism itself are seen ...
2014-09-19 Natal, Brazil / Love Triangle/ Dreiecksgeschichte / Triângulo Amoroso / Triángulo Amoroso
A Love Triangle is usually a romantic relationship involving three people. While it can refer to two people independently romantically linked with a third, it usually implies that each of the three people has some kind of relationship to the other two. A Love Triangle is a popular theme in entertainment, especially romantic fiction, including opera, romance novels, soap operas, romantic comedies, manga, tabloid talk shows, and popular music. Bizarre Love ...
Message to Humanity / Botschaft an die Menschheit / Mensagem para a Humanidade / Mensaje a la Humanidad
From this wider perspective; so much of what we do to each other must have the rest of creation shaking their heads in disbelief.The fact is that someone born in the United States is not more special than someone born in Mexico.Someone born in London is not more special than someone born in Liverpool.Someone who ...
1981-09-17 Rheydt, Germany / The Boat / Das Boot / O Barco / El Barco
The film is seen as one of the greatest of all German films. At the 55th Academy Awards, Das Boot was nominated for six awards, including Best Director. To this day, it holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations for a German film. Taut, breathtakingly thrilling, and devastatingly intelligent, Das Boot is one of the greatest war films ever ...
1862-09-17 Antietam, USA / My brother’s Keeper / Der Hüter meines Bruders / Guarda do meu Irmão / Guardián de mi Hermano
Cain and Abel are the quintessential brothers of the Western World. God asks Cain where his brother Abel is right after Cain killed him. Cain answered with an outright lie! He said he did not know when in fact he knew. Not only did Cain lie, he responded to God with an air of indifference and arrogance, 'Am ...
I am Free / Ich bin Frei / Eu estou Livre / Soy Libre
You can create the World you live in. You can make a choice to take power over your life. The way you search for Love determines the kind of Love you find. Love as you love, be who you are, take risks and be vulnerable. Love is the first step, the first step to possibility. It is ...
Singularity / Singularität / Singularidade / Singularidad
Singularity is that point in time when all the advances in technology, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI), will lead to machines that are smarter than Human beings. The timetable for Singularity is consistent, the dawn of super-intelligent machines will happen by 2047. The process towards this singularity has already begun. Computers are getting faster. Everybody knows that. Also computers are ...
I’m alive, not just Existing / Ich lebe, nicht bloss Existent / Estou vivo, não apenas Existente / Estoy vivo, no solo existente
Existing is living without purpose. Living is existing with purpose. - To be alive is to breathe. It is to take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. It is to take in clean air and breathe out toxic air. It is pretty much the easiest thing you do. It is so easy that you have become pretty ...
Everybody’s name is I / Jedermans Name ist Ich / O nome de todo mundo é Eu / Todos se llaman Yo
I have often puzzled and puzzled about what it must be like to go to sleep and never wake up to be simply not there forever and ever. After all one has some intimation of this by the interval that separates going to sleep from waking. When we don't have any dreams but go to sleep and then suddenly we're there ...
1962-09-12 Houston, Texas / The hard Way / Der harte Weg / O jeito Difícil / El camino Difícil
How many times do you choose the easy route rather than the wise route? How many times do you close your eyes to wrongdoings even though you should speak your mind? How many times do you follow the crowd even though your conscience tells you to do otherwise? Are you simply taking the easy way out? It ...
2001-09-11 New York, USA / Final 5 Minutes / Die letzten 5 Minuten / Ultimos 5 Minutos / Ultimos 5 Minutos
Making a phone call is not that efficient, and it will keep getting less and less efficient in the next few years. In the near future, robotic 'butlers' will talk to you. This might sound futuristic, but Millennials know the benefits of digital communication better. They want results, not a lengthy discussion. There is a chance the ...
Schizophrenia in Humans / Schizophrenie bei Menschen / Esquizofrenia em Humanos / Esquizofrenia en Humanos
You begin to understand what is divine through your efforts to be present. Presence is Consciousness. Since sustained or continuous presence is only achieved with effort, you eventually recognize that being present, being truly awake, is the rarest and highest of all experiences. It is an experience that can so easily be undervalued, but when experienced deeply ...
Be You Tiful / Sei du Selbst / Seja você Mesmo / Sé tú Misma
If you continuously compete with others, you become bitter. But if you continuously compete with yourself you become better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-rZtdUjLxc For women, being exposed to overly perfected images of women, even briefly, can trigger body shame, body dissatisfaction, depression, anxiety, and eating disordered attitudes and behaviors. Stop comparing yourself to others, it is killing you. Comparison kills joy. ...
2018-09-09 Natal, Brazil / My father was called Angel / Mein Vater hieß Angel / Meu pai se chamava Angel / Mi padre se llamaba Angel
I was not paying attention at the time to the good example my father set. He was not consciously setting a good example - he was living life according to his values. I learned many life lessons from my father, some planned, many unintentional. Some of the most valuable lessons I learned came from his great example. He ...
Keep Believing / Glaube Weiter / Continue Acreditando / Sigue creyendo
You can call me naïve and a dreamer. You can call me young and a fool. You can think I am stuck in a silly wonderland in my own mind. You can laugh and tell me I have no idea how the world can be. You can roll your eyes and say that I have not ...
1981-09-08 Mumbai, India / I am That / Ich bin Das / Eu sou Aquele / Soy Eso
I Am That is a compilation of talks on Shiva Advaita (Nondualism) philosophy by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a Hindu spiritual teacher who lived in Mumbai. Nondualism, also called non-duality, means ‘Not two’. It is a term and concept used to define various strands of religious and spiritual thought. It is found in a variety of Asian religious traditions ...
My private Hell / Meine private Hölle / Meu inferno Privado / Mi infierno Privado
Hate is among the most powerful of Human emotions - it has caused great sorrow and suffering. There is ample evidence in historical records, art, and artifacts, that hate has very deep roots within humanity and that it stands tall, often pushing aside its counterparts, Love and hope. It is archetypal in nature, suggesting a biological and/or cultural ...
Everbody cries their first Time / Jede weint ihr erstes Mal / Todas choram sua primeira Vez / Todas lloran su primera vez
I have been a prostitute and I wish I had never started it. I thought about all my options, but it did not seem like I had very many. I lived always the life of party and tried to be the center of attention. I was the person who introduced people to other people. I made ...
The image of Man / Das Bild des Menschen / A imagem do Homem / La imagen del Hombre
You are really nothing more than just the result of some random process that happened in this universe; the dice were rolled and you just happened to come out you. But really you are not anything special. You are really not anything more valuable than the dirt blowing down the street. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y8bKdOtn4E There was an exhibition at the ...
Sorry, I have a life to Live / Tut mir Leid, Ich habe ein Leben zu Leben / Desculpe, tenho uma vida para Viver / Lo siento, tengo una vida para Vivir
Sorry, I have a life to live, and I only get one shot at it, so if you need me, I will be at the pool listening to my favorite house music, or in my garden watching the autumn leaves change colour Or in Tahiti sailing a catamaran with on of my best friends, or in ...
Six Senses / Sechs Sinne / Seis Sentidos / Seis Sentidos
The sixth sense is just that, an extra sensory perception beyond our five commonly recognized senses - hearing, taste, sight, smell and touch. The term sixth sense refers to our ability to perceive something that is not apparently there. In certain religious circles, the sixth sense is referred to as an ability to feel godliness around you. ...
Sticks and Stones / Stöcke und Steine / Bastões e Pedras / Palos y Piedras
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWchInUqcak The machinery of war and the available firepower has increased dramatically. The risks of a third World war are enormous. If we add in all the means and methods of ...