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

𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑

𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄

(and if you think we are talking about anything other than love between adults, you are sick)

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.
- Viktor E. Frankl

Photographer 📸 @kennylemes

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐈𝐅𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐕𝐔𝐋𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.
- Brené Brown 📸 @pheonix.wild

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐖𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄

About two-thirds of LGBT+ older adults have experienced victimization at least three times in their lives.

Forty-eight percent of all LGBT+ couples experience adverse treatment when seeking senior housing.

About 20% of all LGBT+ people avoid medical care out of fear of discrimination.

Fifty percent of transgender individuals have taught their medical providers about transgender care.

Nearly 60% of LGBT+ older adults report feeling a lack of companionship; more than 50% reported feeling isolated from others.

Nearly one-third of all transgender people do not have a primary care doctor and report poor general health. - Not Another Second

Not Another Second – the first in a national series of cultural campaigns in the US – tells the untold stories of 12 LGBT+ seniors and explores the years they lost due to societal constraints.

𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐄

I had always wanted to build a cultural institution ever since I was fifteen. Dropped out of school to pursue that very goal. Ambitious yes but impossible, no.

Grateful to have had the experience of meeting people from different cultures and countries while I was growing up in Calcutta. My grandma was taking care of me since my childhood. She instilled in me a deep love of books. But I couldn’t really read in English at the time. I was insecure. So only Bengali books were my friends. I didn’t even have a computer, let alone know how to type until I was around sixteen. No social media and no cell phone. Heavenly times if you ask me. Because the focus was to develop the inner voice as opposed to being fixated on the external image.

I’m certain that all those years growing up in India with very little money and having a thirst for knowledge and a deep desire to see the world has brought me to where I am today. Full of curiosity and interest in all topics and subjects. To know all parts of this planet. To understand people better. I don’t really understand how and why someone could be racist or sexist or transphobic. I mean come on! Take a good look at yourself and you will see that the soul knows only love. - Pablo Ganguli

𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋

Little boys and girls everywhere using the internet everyday will grow up to be finer, more conscious and evolved human beings if they see photos of people of all shapes, sizes and colour being treated and regarded normally. And called beautiful.

It is our responsibility to put an end to body shaming and racism. It is not enough to just expect experts and leaders to tackle these issues. It is our issue. We have to start in our own neighbourhood and community.

We want to see more couples from different races and body shapes together. The ultimate wellness is going to bed knowing you are respected and accepted for exactly who you are. Loving your stretch marks and wrinkles. No they are not defects. They are part of being human. The feeling of finding peace with your body is the most precious sentiment. No amount of beauty products or gym memberships can achieve that. The world is eventually seeing that all different bodies are beautiful and extraordinarily unique.

Let us not fall into the dangerous trap of classifying certain hair colour, eye colour and body shape as gorgeous while categorising everything else as undesirable. Who decides what gives you pleasure or what your desire is? Social conditioning has been harmful for ages. We are slowly breaking that damaging pattern as humanity. But we have more work to do. So let’s do it together . - Liberatum

Photographer 📸 @rachelanthiasherlock 👩🏾‍🦲 Nyome Nicholas - Williams @

𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒

By intentionally choosing to feel the elevated emotions of the heart rather than waiting for something outside of yourself to elicit those emotions, you become who you are truly meant to be—a heart-empowered individual.

So your thoughts drive your feelings, and your feelings drive your thoughts, and eventually this loop hardwires your brain into the same patterns, which conditions your body into the past. And because emotions are a record of past experiences, if you can’t think greater than how you feel, this thinking-feeling loop keeps you anchored to your past and creates a constant state of being. This is how the body becomes the mind—or in time, how your thoughts run you and your feelings own you.

We know that it takes a clear intention (a coherent brain) and an elevated emotion (a coherent heart) to begin to change a person’s biology from living in the past to living in the future. That combination of mind and body—of thoughts and feelings—also seems to influence matter. And that’s how you create reality.
- Joe Dispenza

Photographer 📸 @arianne.clement.photography

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐒 𝐖𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐑

Why do we cover our bodies but display our faces?
'Naked with Masks' is bold bodily communication, a parody of the self-censorship we all succumb to everyday. - Ben Hopper @benhopper

Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception—happens.

If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

- Eckhart Tolle

Photographer 📸 @benhopper

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

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

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