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

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐄

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐎𝐅 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄

The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen, or that Americans are invincible in battle and wise in peace, that Americans have always dealt honorably with Mexicans and Indians and all other neighbors or inferiors, that American men are the world's most direct and virile, that American women are pure.

Negroes know far more about white Americans than that; it can almost be said, in fact, that they know about white Americans what parents—or, anyway, mothers—know about their children, and that they very often regard white Americans that way.

And perhaps this attitude, held in spite of what they know and have endured, helps to explain why Negroes, on the whole, and until lately, have allowed themselves to feel so little hatred. The tendency has really been, insofar as this was possible, to dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing.
- James Baldwin

Artist 🎨 @tavaro

𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐒 𝐖𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐒

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.

The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Photographer 📸 @eumarvilaaraujo

𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐀 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓

Let us imagine that life is a river. Most people are clinging to the bank, afraid to let go and risk being carried along by the current of the river. At a certain point, each of us must be willing to simply let go, and trust the river to carry us along safely. At this point, we learn to “go with the flow” — and it feels wonderful. Once we have become accustomed to being in the flow of the river, we can begin to look ahead and guide our course onward, deciding where the course looks best, steering the way around boulders and snags, and choosing which of the many channels and branches of the river we prefer to follow, all the while still “going with the flow.

We have to understand in a deep way that having what we truly want in life contributes to the general state of human happiness and supports others in creating more happiness for themselves.

Remember, you are a new person at every new moment. Every day is a new day, and each one is an opportunity to realize the wonderful, loving, and lovable person you truly are. .
- Shakti Gawain

Photographer 📸 @jacobjonasthecompany

𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋 𝐀𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐃𝐒

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing?

If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself.

The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.
- Swami Satchidananda

Photographers 📸 @siermond @nicholas.fols 🧑🏻‍🦰👩🏼 @jaelefo @bartencoenvangolen

𝐀 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐆

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐋𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐑𝐄

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

We choose ignorance because we can. We choose awareness because we can. Samsara and nirvana are simply different points of view based on the choices we make in how to examine and understand our experience. There’s nothing magical about nirvana and nothing bad or wrong about samsara. If you’re determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so, and that the opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

Let your own experience serve as your guide and inspiration. Let yourself enjoy the view as you travel along the path. The view is your own mind, and because your mind is already enlightened, if you take the opportunity to rest awhile along the journey, eventually you’ll realize that the place you want to reach is the place you already are.
- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Photographer 📸 @muratozkasim 👩🏾 @monique_dior_zebedee_model

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐈 $𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery. It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion. Recent experiments in neuroscience support the view that it is our physical brain, following the known laws of science, that determines our actions, and not some agency that exists outside those laws. For example, a study of patients undergoing awake brain surgery found that by electrically stimulating the appropriate regions of the brain, one could create in the patient the desire to move the hand, arm or foot, or to move the lips and talk. It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behaviour is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion. - Stephen Hawking Photographer 📸 @brunopedro.mz$

𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍