Transcender, descendoaté ao fundo das coisas, é comovarrer as folhas quecobrem um caminho. Haverá sempremais folhas. E o coraçãoda jornada, o coração do nossopróprio despertar, é descobrirmospor nós mesmos que as folhas não sãoo chão, e que afastá-lasrevelará um caminho;e, finalmente, que, para vivermosplenamente, temos de seguir esse caminho […]
Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walkdown a crowded aisle, people pull in their legsto let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”when someone sneezes, a leftoverfrom the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.And sometimes, when you spill lemonsfrom your grocery bag, someone else will help youpick them up. Mostly, […]
What We Can Control
One quiet afternoon, my partner and I were sitting at an outdoor café. At one point, I got up to go to the restroom. On the floor, I found a fifty-euro note. I picked it up and returned to our table, unsure of what to do. “I found this on the floor,” I said, showing […]
Being Here, by Mark Nepo
Transcending down intothe ground of things is akinto sweeping the leaves thatcover a path. There will alwaysbe more leaves. And the heartof the journey, the heart of ourown awakening, is to discover forourselves that the leaves are notthe ground, and that sweepingthem aside will reveal a path,and finally, that to fully live,we must take the […]
What We Can Control
One quiet afternoon, my partner and I were sitting at an outdoor café. At one point, I got up to go to the restroom. On the floor, I found a fifty-euro note. I picked it up and returned to our table, unsure of what to do. “I found this on the floor,” I said, showing […]
What We Can Control
One quiet afternoon, my partner and I were sitting at an outdoor café. At one point, I got up to go to the restroom. On the floor, I found a fifty-euro note. I picked it up and returned to our table, unsure of what to do. “I found this on the floor,” I said, showing […]
What We Can Control
One quiet afternoon, my partner and I were sitting at an outdoor café. At one point, I got up to go to the restroom. On the floor, I found a fifty-euro note. I picked it up and returned to our table, unsure of what to do. “I found this on the floor,” I said, showing […]
What holidays teach us about the way we work
Holidays are usually an opportunity to recover energy. But perhaps they can be more than that: they are also a time to understand what our body and mind are telling us about the way we are working and what we want to do differently when we return. There is a phrase we often hear as […]
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Three Times the Same Interview
There are interviews that are forgotten the next day. And there are interviews that, for some reason, stay with us. Not necessarily because they reveal something extraordinarily new, but because they refuse to be exhausted. We finish listening to them, keep thinking about them and, when we return a few days later, discover things we […]
Lidia Jorge | Each of us is a sum
(Video in Portuguese, subtitles in English and Spanish) More videos in our YouTube Channel (…) Which means that around here, no one has pure blood.The fallacy of a single ancestry bears no relation to reality.Each of us is a sum.We carry the blood of both the native and the migrant;of the European and the African, of […]
