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Have you ever had enough?

Enough money, enough love, enough happiness, enough respect? Truth is nobody ever has 'enough'. If we had  'enough' we wouldn't have thoughts, we wouldn't make any movement. But is more money truly what we should aspire to? Shouldn't personal security come from trusting people, banks, companies, countries, rather than being able to afford protecting myself from them? Isn't that a happier, healthier way? I think it is. Take care of your family, town, community. With mutual responsibility, you won't have a care in the world.

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Competition = Corruption of Nature

It starts by naturally accepting that a sports game is a competition between two rival teams in which one wins and the other loses, and goes on to form a world where life itself is a competition between you and others, in which one wins and the other loses.

Competition between countries over resources, competition between people over respect, property, dominance. War. The rich gather to themselves more and more, senseless in their competition, unable to see the plight of the poor. From television shows, to sports games, to the way of life itself... Wether it's Ninja Turtles, Pokemon, Power Rangers (remember what you grew up on?), an NBA game or the way people drive these days, a child learns that force is the solution to any personal problem, and that that's how the 'good guys' win. Do you feel you live in a world which benefits from this type of education? This lifestyle of constant competition? Do you believe that even those who 'win' feel content, feel safe, feel at peace?

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(click on the title link to read/download) Why is there poverty? Why hunger? Why wars? Why violence among children and adults? Why divorce and couples breaking up? Why greed? Why even negative human emotions such as the shame we feel, anger? A great book which, if you have any questions about the world as it currently is, contains all the answers.

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Sacred Economics with Charles Einstein - A Short Film

If there are no gifts, there is no community.

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What is Biomimicry?

"What businesses are finding is that the ideas from the natural world actually reduce risk because they use fewer toxins. They don’t use a lot of energy. They’re absolutely parsimonious with materials. Companies not only get a breakthrough product or process, but they wind up saving money. And they wind up being a lot more sustainable, which is what customers are looking for these days." - Janine Benyus (Want to know more?)

Question to Ponder: What do you think lead human society away from mimicking and utilizing nature in a balanced way in the first place?

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The Greatest Risk - Failing To See How Everything Is Interconnected

A global mindset which is dead-set on personal profit rather than on human values eventually leads to a world in which life isn't good for anyone.

Weapons manufacturers make weapons, fueling bloody wars in Africa. The weapons are so cheap they end up in the hands of organizations and criminals around the world, creating chaos and danger everywhere. Who wins? Not even  those who work in the weapons manufacturer, for their lives remain uncertain.

Medicine companies make medicines which are designed to keep people ill and dependent. Long term treatments and no cures in sight. No cures can be made in a society so focused on personal profit. Who loses? Everyone. Even the people who work at creating medicine, for their lives remain uncertain. Agricultural firms create pesticides and genetically engineered food to manufacture more than they could naturally. Pesticides then trickle into soil and water, polluting it and making it undrinkable, the soil becomes infertile as small life-sustaining organisms are destroyed, and the food itself too is contaminated and dangerous. Who loses? Everyone, even the people who work at Agricultural firms, for their lives remain uncertain. A world where personal profit is good cannot sustain life for long. A cell which considers personal profit good eventually kills the organism. In this case too, personal profit comes at the expense of everyone, and eventually the greedy, mutated, diseased, selfish cell as well. How can we un-press the 'Self Destruct' button?

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Bill Hicks & The Meaning Of Life The famous and astute comedian Bill Hicks explains the nature of life as a journey, the opposing forces of fear and love which we can manage inside ourselves if we make a conscious decision to do so, right now.

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Economists Have Misunderstood Human Beings

"Capitalism has made us all money-centric, self centric" - Dr. Muhammad Yunus

Unemployment is a burning issue everywhere. It has no doubt touched upon you or people close to you. The question is; Why should anyone be "employed"? Are all our business really that good for us, good for our ecology or our society? MUST we remain slaves to this system of endless work for endless manufacturing? Are we so blind that even looking around us right now, we cannot see the clifftop we are so close to walking off? It is possible to grow and distribute all of the food and basic necessities every human being needs even less than 10% of world population 'employed', or with each person working for 2 hours a day.  Why manufacture endlessly when it ends up damaging our society, our ecology, our health consequently? In short, why not rely on happiness for thing that we KNOW TO WORK and do not need commercials, money, distribution networks and ecologic destruction? Why not go for more time with family, friends and nature instead?

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The Future Of Human Society

"As we become ever more closely interconnected, conditions in one part of the superorganism have immediate impacts upon conditions in other parts, and poverty leads to short term thinking,  which leaves people taking today whatever they can get, even if it's at great expense for tomorrow, and of course, 'tomorrow' reflects the common fate of humanity" - Tim Flannery

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For you see, it was a brave attempt, and a lengthy one

But now we see that what makes us truly happy is not owning more stuff, enjoying more fleeting pleasures. It's not real happiness.

Consumerism was a self-harming, addictive habit and nothing more. None of us truly needs all these things to be happy.

Lasting happiness is a good connection with people. With friends. Knowing that you are truly cared about and appreciated, and you can only truly have that after you, yourself, give others the same feeling, first.

True lasting happiness is not found in being above others, like that obnoxiously bossy boss at work. Do you have one? How truly happy do you think he or she are like that? How do you think this sort of attitude at work affects their personal lives, after work? I'd say that they are not happy people at all.

True happiness is when you come away from that broken world, when you're back home with friends who see you as an equal. As part of the group, the gang, the fellowship. They see you as no more and no less than themselves. You can laugh with them honestly, talk to them honestly, and feel at home. That is when you are happy. When that equality is broken, you have jealousy, you have a destructive force that will take away your happiness, if you do not re-balance, re-create that equality.

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Ecologize Economy

"I hope we don't 'recover' in the way that people are trying to have us recover, but that we realize that we CANT recover, because all of these crises; the environmental crisis, the social justice crisis, the spiritual crisis and the economic crisis are all from the same root. We need a shift in consciousness. A shift of our fundamental understanding of ourselves as a species" - Lynne Twist

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Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in others A simple enough principle to practice, which will, even in the short run, make our lives much saner and more secure.

In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning -- and the most important gift we can give others --- Overestimating them!

Question:

What if I over-estimate everyone? Will I just be disappointed with them? Or do I make them become what they can be?

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Adora Svitak: What Adults Can Learn From Kids

"Somehow, though, developmentally inappropriate education has become the norm, as kindergarten (literally, the “children’s garden”) now tends to resemble a first- or second-grade classroom -- in fact, a bad first- or second-grade classroom, where discovery, creativity, and social interaction are replaced by a repetitive regimen focused on narrowly defined academic skills" - Alfie Kohn (Would you like to know more?)

Question:

Would you like to take your children into todays Education system? Or would you gladly consider any possible alternative?

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Music and Life - Alan Watts From the moment we're born we are set goals by society. exam scores, academic degrees, a good job, a certain lifestyle, a new car, the latest fashion, vacation resorts, wealth, property. Anything at all. We are not born with these goals.

We spend our lives going from -1 to 0. We work to get what we desire, and when we get it, we are quickly at 0. Unfulfilled, unsatisfied. Immediately we look for the next thing society tells us we should accomplish if we want to feel satisfied. -1.

Questions:

1) Is there a way out of this loop?

2) What things would you like to be important in society? What kind of goals and aspirations do you wish your children to be live by? Because what your society appreciates is what you, and they in turn, will desire.

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A Thought Provoking Puppet Performance...

I think that when we watch this to the end... We all feel that there is more than a hint of truth to this.. We are tied to one another, we are tied to nature, and to sever these ties would surely mean our end.

"As the notion of an independent physical entity has become problematic in subatomic physics, so has the notion of an independent organism in biology. Living organisms, being open systems, keep themselves alive and functioning through intense transactions with their environment, which itself consists partially of organisms. Thus the whole biosphere - our planetary ecosystem - is a dynamic and highly integrated web of living and nonliving forms. Although this web is multilevel, transactions and interdependencies exist among all its levels. Most organisms are not only embedded in ecosystems but are complex ecosystems themselves, containing a host of smaller organisms that have considerable autonomy and yet integrate themselves harmoniously into the functioning of the whole." - Dr. Fritjof Capra (Would you like to know more?)

Question:

What is the purpose of our Individuality?