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

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐔𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐅

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐔𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄

Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.
- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Photographer 📸 @stevemccurryofficial

𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐎

𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐘

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
- Ram Dass

Photographer 📸 @kennylemes 👩🏽👩🏻 @valentinabrishantina @misha_lolox

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒

The separation between us and them or between us and Nature that we so vividly experience in our reality is an illusion held in place by our beliefs.

So here is the bad news and the good news. The story of human life on Earth is yet to be determined. If there is to be an Act V, it will depend on whether we humans are willing to make changes in our individual and collective beliefs and behaviors and whether we are able to make these changes in time.

Cells, tissues, and organs do not question information sent by the nervous system. Rather, they respond with equal fervor to accurate life-affirming perceptions and to self-destructive misperceptions. Consequently, the nature of our perceptions greatly influences the fate of our lives.
- Bruce H. Lipton

Photographer and Artist 📸 @jeanpaulgoudeofficial👩🏾 @gracejonesofficial

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐆𝐎 Y

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐆𝐎

You know why it’s hard to be happy—it’s because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.

Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to be in a community, to be in relationship with other organisms.

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
- Bruce H. Lipton

Photographer 📸 @anaharff

𝐁𝐄 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.
- Gary Zukav

Photographer 📸 @mrelbank 👩🏻 @sineadsoffe

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 Th

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄

The aim of this series is to broaden the social discourse about old age. Today, we are so used to discussing complex sets of challenges concerning the security of the pension system, the dramatic rise of dementia diseases, and the nursing crisis.

We even talk about leisure culture and educational opportunities for the so-called silver and golden ager - mostly through an economic lense though - whereas eroticism and sexuality in older and high age couples are utterly underrepresented or even tabooed in the public mind.

But endless variations of love, desire and eroticism build a universal value that is lived, at its best, by humankind all over the world at all ages. All This Love highlights some beautiful love stories and intimate moments of older couples.

Irene, 80, and Günter, 79, are a catholic couple married for more than 60 years. Günter says: "God gave us the gift of sexuality". They are both art enthusiasts and painters who have a very loving connection to their own bodies and each other’s. - Mirja Maria Thiel

Photographer 📸 @mirjamariathiel

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐌

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐔𝐒

Ancient spiritual traditions remind us that in each moment of the day, we make the choices that either affirm or deny our lives. Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives; to breathe deep and life-affirming breaths or shallow, life-denying ones; and to think and speak about other people in a manner that is honoring or dishonoring.

When we look at our lives from the viewpoint that everything is everywhere all the time, the implications are so vast that for many they’re hard to grasp.

Through the power of our forgotten inner technology, we can heal, bilocate, be everywhere at once, remote-view, connect telepathically, choose peace, and do everything in between.
- Gregg Braden

Photographer 📸 @martinmachaj

𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.

All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.

The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it. If you’re proud of how your hair looks, you’ll develop all sorts of habits to care for and maintain it. If you’re proud of the size of your biceps, you’ll make sure you never skip an upper-body workout. If you’re proud of the scarves you knit, you’ll be more likely to spend hours knitting each week. Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
- James Clear

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𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐀𝐈𝐌 𝐀𝐓 𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒

Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
- Viktor E. Frankl

Photography 📸 @omergaash

𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: 𝐀 𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄

The cries of children are always close to Her ears. The pain of robbed childhood, even closer to Her heart.

This series 'Divine Retribution' bears no relevance to the beliefs or world history, but the likeness was adopted to empower womxn & people who have endured sexual assault and/or domestic violence. It exists to validate feelings of anger, hurt, fear, and frustration that have been dismissed as "too much", "a mess", "unnecessary drama", etc. This is the revenge we were never afforded the opportunity.

I wanna say that in an ideal world, survivors are triumphant. But in a truly ideal world, there would not be any need for survivors. - @catherhea

Crown designer, props & MUA: @hamidhanizah
Saree stylist: @shangkharee
Models:
@shangkharee @thayaabaran
Concept, photography & post-production: @catherhea

Special thanks to Murali for providing us the space & setting up the backdrop, and @warna.rupa for being my second pair of eyes 💛

Photographer 📸 @catherhea 👦🏾👩🏽 @thayaabaran @shangkharee

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.
- Erich Fromm

Photographer 📸 @carolablondelli

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒

It turns out you can’t command the perceptions of others, and the more you try, the more you risk losing your own sense of self-worth and alienating people. It took decades of running myself ragged trying to gain acceptance from others for me to learn a fundamental truth I would now like to share with you: No one cares. No one is watching you. No one is tallying the total of your decisions, judging you from afar. They are not doing this because they are too worried about themselves. They are making all kinds of judgments about their own lives and worries, and I love you very much, but they are just not thinking about you right now.

For you, I see something grander: I see a life that you consciously live. That you curate and cultivate and create for yourself, a life in which you are self-aware AF, grateful for the luck that you are here at all, a life in which you love and also let yourself be loved. I see you engaged to your life, holding it firmly yet tenderly by the hand like it’s your soulmate, bringing it in for the deepest of make-out seshes. I see you feeling up your life in the most passionate of embraces. That is what I see for you.

The people you surround yourself with make up the quality of your life.
- Tara Schuster

Photographer 📸 @t_borba

𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄

𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅𝐈𝐒𝐇

You may control a mad elephant;
You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger;
Ride the lion and play with the cobra;
By alchemy you may learn your livelihood;
You may wander through the universe incognito;
Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful;
You may walk in water and live in fire;
But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and temporary, separation from body and breath. His superconscious state is a freedom from the delusion that "existence" depends on body and breath. God lives without breath; the soul made in his image becomes conscious of itself, for the first time, only during the breathless state.

Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Photographer 📸 @matigelman 👦🏾👩🏾👧🏼👦🏻 @estefanogil @nicoleharhar @mishayoga @gabe_c_amato

𝐒𝐎 𝐌𝐔𝐂𝐇 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋𝐓

𝐒𝐎 𝐌𝐔𝐂𝐇 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋𝐓𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐔𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄

Today and everyday would you be so kind as to do a little sincere meditation for five minutes to pray for all those who are suffering in this cruel world?

Children abused by parents, adults hurt by other adults, innocent civilians injured by bomb explosions, doctors raping patients, black people shot by white racists, people wanting to kill themselves because of depression and because the world is too cruel a place for them, women assaulted by their husbands in bed ...

All this ego and greed and obsession with who has the bigger house or ammunition or award, or better magazine cover will continue making this place a completely selfish and soulless world. Brands just want your cash. Celebrities only want you to worship them. Let’s not fall into the same old trap. Help each other and meditate and pray for a better and more united world.

Take care of animals. They are the most vulnerable.

Photographer 📸 @bebop_studio

𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘

“I spent 7 years on pharmaceutical birth control and my body never fully recovered. Longing to find a way to work around the issue of menstruation, the series started the day I joyfully stared at the red flower blossoming on the candid underwear I was wearing after a silent pause of half a year. Having lived the absence of menstruation for a long time, I feel the issue around its untold truth a very personal one, seeing its happening as the blessing of being a woman.”

“A Study of Fertility” represents the first section within an ongoing project on the relationship between women, nature and creation.

Inspired by views on eco-feminism, sustainable development and human equality find place within a feminine and fluid approach to society, promoting harmony, progress and socio-economical wellbeing through information, understanding and connection between systems, environments and species.

“A Study of Fertility” brings awareness to the taboo of menstruation, reflecting on the sacrality of fertility and sexuality and the importance of the menstrual cycle for individual and collective female health.

The stigma and shame generated by stereotypes around menstruation has a profound impact on women’s psychological and physiological health and reproductive life, as well as impacting women’s economic participation and advancement, undermining gender equality.

Breaking the taboo starts with the right to information and knowledge and the ability of women and girls to talk freely about menstruation and sexuality, to listen to their bodies and meet them with acceptance.

To respect and celebrate menstruation as a key aspect of life means in fact to acknowledge it as a human right issue, breaking and replacing the shame attached to it with dignity. - @alexandravonfuerst

Photographer 📸 @alexandravonfuerst

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔

Your experience on this planet is as unique as one of the billions of stars in the clear indigo sky, and yet I believe you and I are on the same journey—one in which the Essential Self is emerging into conscious experience, shifting out of separation and suffering into connection and bliss.

Once you know yourself as the light, you will find that inner peace dominates every situation. It’s not that you will never feel fear, anxiety, or anger, but you will no longer get lost in your pain.

There are moments in each of our lives when something greater—something Incontrovertible—steps in to help us realign with our truest lives and most authentic selves. This perceived crisis or trauma either shakes our world to its core or tears everything apart so that we are launched once again in the direction of our best lives, the most authentic expression of who we are each here to be.
- Panache Desai

Photographer 📸 @aboya.8

𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘

If you want to be happy, you have to let go of the part of you that wants to create melodrama. This is the part that thinks there’s a reason not to be happy. You have to transcend the personal, and as you do, you will naturally awaken to the higher aspects of your being.

In the end, enjoying life’s experiences is the only rational thing to do. You’re sitting on a planet spinning around in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Go ahead, take a look at reality. You’re floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience. You’re going to die anyway. Things are going to happen anyway. Why shouldn’t you be happy?

You gain nothing by being bothered by life’s events. It doesn’t change the world; you just suffer. There’s always going to be something that can bother you, if you let it. - Michael A. Singer

𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐑

𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍, 𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒, 𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒

It’s easy to see sexual dimorphisms and conclude that the brain is binary; easy, but wrong. Thanks to the participation of trans people in research, we have expanded our understanding of how brain structure, sex and gender interact. For some properties like brain volume and connectivity, trans people possessed values in between those typical of cisgender males and females, both before and after transitioning. Another study found that for certain brain regions, trans individuals appeared similar to cis-individuals with the same gender identity. In that same study, researchers found specific areas of the brain where trans people seemed closer to those with the same assigned sex at birth. Other researchers discovered that trans people have unique structural differences from cis-individuals.

As if the brain and body weren’t complicated enough, another biological factor influences the expression of biological sex in an individual: hormones. Anyone who has gone through puberty has felt the power of hormones firsthand. But like all things biology, hormones cannot be limited to the pubescent idea of “estrogen = female and testosterone = male.”
For one thing, all humans possess levels of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone with sex differences not as prominent as is popularly thought. During infancy and prepubescence, these hormones sit in a bipotential range, with no marked sex differences. Through puberty, certain sex hormones like estrogen, progesterone and testosterone become weighted toward one end of a spectrum. But in developed adults, estrogen and progesterone levels are on average similar between males and nonpregnant females. And while testosterone exhibits the largest difference between adult males and females, heritability studies have found that genetics (X vs. Y) only explains about 56 percent of an individual’s testosterone, suggesting many other influences on hormones. Furthermore, measurements of sex hormones levels in any one individual wildly vary across the range of “average” values regardless of how close or spread apart you take the measurements. - Scientific American

Photographer 📸 @kennylemes

𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐄𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐋

We don’t exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness.

We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.

What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other … you have the choice: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief … or as much displeasure as possible as the price for the growth of an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys that have rarely been relished yet? If you decide for the former and desire to diminish and lower the level of human pain, you also have to diminish and lower the level of their capacity for joy.
- Alain de Botton

Photographer 📸 @angeloformatocom

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