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Global Multimedia and Multidisciplinary Cultural Organization Empowering and Inspiring Minds to Promote Social Change and Raise Consciousness

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍 𝐈𝐍

Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance.

My recommendation: don’t be special; don’t be unique. Redefine your metrics in mundane and broad ways. Choose to measure yourself not as a rising star or an undiscovered genius. Choose to measure yourself not as some horrible victim or dismal failure. Instead, measure yourself by more mundane identities: a student, a partner, a friend, a creator.

The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you. For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible.This often means giving up some grandiose ideas about yourself: that you’re uniquely intelligent, or spectacularly talented, or intimidatingly attractive, or especially victimized in ways other people could never imagine. This means giving up your sense of entitlement and your belief that you’re somehow owed something by this world.
- Mark Manson

Photographer 📸 @fendromena 👩🏻 @__caoina

𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐒

Genetically speaking, we are one people. The two most seemingly different people in the world are virtually identical from the point of their genes.φ At most, about one in a thousand nucleotides in our DNA are different between the blackest and the whitest, the tallest and the shortest of us. We are 99.9 percent the same. We are one tribe, one family, but have yet to recognize it. We humans are all intimately interconnected. How we treat each other matters to the health and well-being, perhaps even the survival, of us all as a species, not in some vague future, but in this very moment.

It is a hard message to swallow at first blush because it brings into question everything that we think we are, which for the most part seems to come from what we identify with, our bodies, our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, our values, our work, our expectations of what is “supposed” to happen and how things are “supposed” to work out for me in order for me to be happy, our stories of where we came from and where we are going and of who we are.

Coming to our senses involves cultivating an overarching awareness of all our senses, including our own minds, and their limitations, including the temptation when we feel deeply insecure and have a lot of resources, to try to control as rigidly and as tightly as possible all variables in the external world, an impossible and ultimately depleting, intrinsically violent, and self-exhausting enterprise.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Photographer 📸 @poesiacomelos

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒

Liberatum. The last two decades of creating profound, meaningful and poignant multidisciplinary cultural programmes around the world on all continents. Since 2001.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐑 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒

A grave humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Ethiopia. ‘I never saw hell before, but now I have.’
Millions have been displaced, thousands killed, and reports of human rights violations are rampant as a civil war escalates in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

A political conflict between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Tigray’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), has exploded into war and a grave humanitarian crisis. As many as two million people in the region have been displaced and thousands have been killed. Yet the full extent of the catastrophe is unknown because the Ethiopian government has shut down communications and limited access to Tigray.

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario managed to travel to the region in mid-May to chronicle how the violence was affecting the people who live there. She found a devastating situation, where men, women, and children—civilians—were terrified and traumatized, and praying for those who hadn't yet made it to the capital of Mekele, or another relatively safe place. People she met referred repeatedly to countless others who were still in hiding.

The roots of the clash go back to the 1970s, when the TPLF formed as a militia in rebellion against Mengistu Haile Mariam, the Ethiopian president who ruled as a dictator from 1977 to 1991. Eventually the TPLF established itself as the most powerful insurgent group in the country, leading the alliance that toppled Mengistu in 1991.

The rebel alliance became the country’s ruling coalition, which consisted of political parties tied to ethnic groups. Although Tigrayans account for just 6 to 7 percent of Ethiopia’s population of 118 million, they became the dominant political force in the country. - @natgeo

Photographer 📸 @lynseyaddario

𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐋

𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄

Radical self-love demands that we see ourselves and others in the fullness of our complexities and intersections and that we work to create space for those intersections.

There is no standard of health that is achievable for all bodies. Our belief that there should be anchors the systemic oppression of ableism and reinforces the notion that people with illnesses and disabilities have defective bodies rather than different bodies.

Radical self-love summons us to be our most expansive selves, knowing that the more unflinchingly powerful we allow ourselves to be, the more unflinchingly powerful others feel capable of being. Our unapologetic embrace of our bodies gives others permission to unapologetically embrace theirs.
- Sonya Renee Taylor

📸 @braziliansweetheart

𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐖𝐎𝐑

𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒

Watch your thoughts, they turn into words. Watch your words, they turn into actions. Watch your actions, they turn into habits. Watch your habits, they turn into character. Watch your character, it turns into your destiny.’ It all begins with a thought.

To accept someone when everything is going right is easy. But when things are falling apart around you and you stick together, that’s the test of a relationship. Love is when we have every reason to break up but we do not.

Often, people can display selflessness outside their home. People may help out in their community, or at temples or schools, and some may even make sure that they get a selfie to announce to the world that they have helped. But at home, they may not express the same service mentality. I believe that selflessness starts at home; with the ones we love the most. Are we doing what we can to help them? Are we there for them to help them physically as well as emotionally?

Stop and reflect on your life regularly. Pressing the pause button to practise gratitude is the way to make it a constant in your life.
- Gaur Gopal Das

Photographer 📸 @_danilopes

𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐁𝐄

𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃

Most people will grow only with pain, not with pleasure. It’s unfortunate, but that’s the truth. Generally people only go down with pleasure. They don’t go up with pleasure. Please see, the quality of a human being is like this: when life offers more and more pleasures to a man, he doesn’t grow. He goes down. In terms of the real quality of a human being, only when suffering comes, when pain comes, does a man stand up as a human being.

Love is not a joy; it is a deep wonderful pain. It is a very deep, tearing, wonderful pain. Something within you should tear; not just something, everything within you should tear. Only then you know what love is. If it feels pleasant, that’s not love; it’s just convenience. Maybe you felt a little affection. If you have ever loved, everything inside you tears apart, really tears apart. It’s painful but wonderful. That’s how it is.

As your likes and dislikes become stronger, as your identifications become stronger with one thing or another, all that you are doing is excluding existence. If I say, “I like this very much,” in a big way I am excluding the rest of existence at that moment. So the stronger it becomes, the deeper the exclusion becomes. The very process of liberation is to include, not to exclude. In exclusion, you become trapped. In inclusion, you become liberated.
- Sadhguru

📸 Photographer @juliashoots 👩🏻 @_autanna

𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐊𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄

To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees – these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on "going it alone." Somehow we've come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we're very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It's as if we've divided the world into "those who offer help" and "those who need help." The truth is that we are both.
- Brené Brown

Photographer 📸 @__adey__ for @lampoonmagazine 👩🏾👩🏻 @beeabrown @hazukus

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