Anyone engaged with global issues of Human well being, the distribution of resources, or the future of Society is doing moral philosophy. Being self conscious about principles and premises, improves moral thinking. What are you thinking? What are you fighting for? The problem of well being in today's Society is challenging in all ways. Why should you care ...
Tathātā / Tathata / Tathātā / Tathata
Tathātā is translated as ‘Suchness’ or ‘As-is-ness of the moment’. It is a central concept in Buddhism, it expresses the appreciation of reality within a unique moment. Tathātā is often best revealed in the mundane, such as noticing the way the wind blows through a field of grass, or watching someone’s face light up as they smile. If ...
Life Is Beautiful / Das Leben ist Schön / A Vida é Bela / La Vida es Bella
It is a challenge for scientists and philosophers to define life. This is partially because life is a process, not a substance. The definition of life is controversial. For some, life is beautiful will mean that life is enjoyable. For others, it will mean that life is good. Yet for others, it will mean that life ...
2016-05-07 Natal, Brazil / Relax / Entspannen / Relaxar / Relajar
I hope you remember this impact, in every moment and every aspect of your life, not just now, but for the rest of your life and in everything you do. - Be kind, above everything else and be understanding of yourself and others. Do the right thing, even when it is hard. Love yourself, others and your ...
Golf ball sized Consciousness / Golfballgroßes Bewusstsein / Consciência de uma bola de Golfe / Conciencia de una pelota de Golf
Awareness is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being conscious of something. Awareness is a relative concept. Awareness may be focused on an internal state or on external events by way of sensory perception. Popular ideas about Consciousness suggest the phenomenon ...
Dreams of past Times / Träume vergangener Zeiten / Sonhos de tempos Passados / Sueños de tiempos Pasados
When you dream about someone you like, the most probable would be that, you have been thinking about that person way too much. And it is very likely that you were thinking about that person when you fell asleep. This creates an imprint of your thoughts on your subconscious mind, which gets reflected in your dreams. When you ...
2014-05-04 Natal, Brazil / My Oh My / Mein Oh Mein / Meu oh Meu / Mi Oh Mi
Wasn’t hard to love you - Didn’t have to try - Wasn’t hard to love you - Didn’t have to try - Held you for a little while - My Oh My Oh My - Drove you to the station - Never asked you why - Drove you to the station - Never asked you why - Held you for a little while - My Oh ...
1953-05-04 Havanna, Cuba / The Old Man and The Sea / Der alte Mann und das Meer / O Velho e o Mar / El viejo y el Mar
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with ...
Scientific Dictatorship / Diktatur der Wissenschaft / Ditadura Científica / Dictadura Científica
We must be alert to the danger that public policy could become the captive of a scientific technological elite. The roots of the Scientific Dictatorship can be traced to the works of Plato some 2,000 years ago. In truth, humanity has been battling the formation of this tyranny for much of known history. Modern forms of scientific power ...
Call it Grace / Nenn es Gnade / Chame isso de Graça / Llámalo Gracia
What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know. - Grace strikes you when you are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes you when you walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life. Grace offers the possibility of sudden transformation - an awakening, similar to ...
2017-05-03 Asheville, USA / Want to go with Me / Willst Du mi mir Geh’n / Você quer ir Comigo / Quieres ir Conmigo
Willst du mit mir gehn, wenn mein Weg ins dunkel führt? - Willst du mit mir gehn, wenn mein Tag schon Nachtwind spürt? - Wenn ich nicht mehr Vagabund sein will, baust du mein Haus, - Und ruhst du mir, mit mir vom Leben aus? - Willst du mit mir gehn, Licht und Schatten verstehn? - Dich mit Windrädern drehn, ...
Ideology is Toxic / Ideologie ist Giftig / Ideologia é Tóxico / Ideología es Tóxica
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of Human free thinking. If you adopt some ideology, Leninism, Mormonism … then you have all the answers. You just go and look into ...
2013-05-01 Natal, Brazil / Love is a Stranger / Liebe ist ein Fremder / O amor é um Estranho / El amor es un extraño
Love drunken men and women show all the basic symptoms of addiction. The lover is focused on his/her drug of choice, the Love object. The lover thinks obsessively about him/her and often compulsively calls, writes, or stays in touch. Lovers distort reality, change their priorities and daily habits, experience personality changes and do inappropriate or risky things ...
Meet the love of your Life again / Triff die Liebe deines Lebens Wieder / Encontrar novamente o amor de tu Vida / Encontrar de nuevo el amor de tu Vida
Maybe there is no such thing as a mistake if we really needed it to learn more about who we are and how we love. Still, there are those loves we wish we could rewind and just take back. The ones whose endings were too painful for us. But, no matter how much we wished that this ...
Counting Sheep / Schafe Zählen / Contando Ovelhas / Contando Ovejas
Counting sheep is a mental exercise used in some cultures as a means of putting oneself to sleep. An early reference can be found in 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes, from 1605. Cervantes adapted the story of counting goats from a story of counting sheep in the early twelfth-century Spanish work Disciplina Clericalis, based on ...
1975-04-30 Saigon, Vietnam / Black April / Schwarzer April / Abril Preto / Abril Negro
April 30th is celebrated as a public holiday in Vietnam as Liberation Day or Reunification Day. Among former South Vietnamese expatriates in the US the day is referred to as 'Black April' and is used as a time of lamentation for the fall of Saigon. The date was a sign of American abandonment, a memorial for the ...
Victory over Addiction / Sieg über Sucht / Vitória sobre o Vício / Victoria sobre la Adicción
The Buddhist 'hungry ghost' is the part of ourselves that experiences unbearable emptiness and spends its whole life attempting to satisfy that emptiness by seeking something, anything, from the outside. The task is impossible so the ghost remains hungry forever. That is addiction, whether to drugs, power, food, wealth, looks, status, relationships, sports, video games - ...
Dating younger Women / Jüngere Frauen Daten / Namoro mulheres mais Jovens / Enamorando con mujeres más Jóvenes
No matter how close a man may get to his grave, he will always be interested in a hot young 20-somethings. Multiple studies suggest the key to a long and prosperous life is not eating beets and drinking sad green juices all the time, but rather something much more enjoyable - dating younger women. Older men who date younger ...
1998-04-27 Los Angeles, USA / You have found the Spot / Du hast den Ort Gefunden / Você encontrou o Lugar / Has encontrado el Lugar
Carlos Castaneda's 12 books have sold more than 28 million copies in 17 languages. Critics have suggested that they are works of fiction. Supporters claim the books are either true or at least valuable works of philosophy and descriptions of practices which lead one to an Awareness of energies, beings and Worlds which lie outside the ...
The truth about ISIS / Die Wahrheit über ISIS / A verdade sobre o ISIS / La verdad sobre ISIS
The Yinon Plan explains conspiracy theories according to which the article either predicted or planned major political events in the Middle East since the 1980's. Including the invasion of Iraq and the overthrowing of Saddam Hussein, the Syrian Civil War and the rise of the Islamic State. Israeli strategists viewed Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an ...
You are Freaky / Du bist Verrückt / Você é Louco / Eres Loco
Adventurous is wanting to try new things. Freaky is trying new things without asking. Freaks do not care what other people think. Freaks are willing to do the work. Freaks always bet on themselves. Freaks are fearless. - Freaks are willing to seem odd or strange to others. They do not let judgements deter them from achieving what they set out ...
2015-04-26 Natal, Brazil / Sandcastles / Sandburgen / Castelos de Areia / Castillos de Arena
Sandcastles was initially written by Vincent Berry, inspired by the heartbreak of a ten-year relationship with a girlfriend. He immediately related to the lyrics and promised it would be his last time writing a song about this girl. 'I did this song to heal myself and I think that is what people are experiencing when they hear ...
Benefit of Expansion / Vorteil der Erweiterung / Benefício da Expansão / Beneficio de la Expansión
I am beginning to understand that I am more than I see here in this physical body. I acknowledge that there is a larger part of me - a source energy part of me - that is truly the essence of who I am. - And I accept that a part of that Consciousness is now ...
Everybody wants to go to Heaven / Jeder will in den Himmel / Todo mundo quer ir para o Céu / Todo el mundo quiere ir al Cielo
Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to go now. Everybody wants to live forever but nobody wants to die. Everybody wants to be a witch but nobody wants to apprentice under an odd old lady. Everybody wants to be a priest but nobody wants to study old stories. Everybody wants to be a millonaire but nobody ...
Machines can Help / Maschinen können Helfen / Máquinas podem Ajudar / Máquinas pueden Ayudar
Automation technologies such as machine learning and robotics play an increasingly great role in life. Their potential effect on the workplace has become a major focus of research and public concern. Which jobs will or will not be replaced by machines? 47% of U.S. jobs could be automated within the next two decades. If only half that number is ...