When scars become gold

“What we need to do is not to avoid living but learning to recover after the adversities. Collect the fragments, Sokei, the moment has come to repair your illusions. What is broken can be reassembled, and when you will do that, do not try to hide its fragility as it is now become a revealed strength” – from ‘The Dream of Sokei’ in ‘Kintsugi’ by Tomas Navarro

 

Fixing what is broken is not considered a valuable mastery, especially in the western society and especially in the younger generations. The perspective to appreciate what has been fixed and to discover its beauty is even less popular.

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Do not go back to normality

“A better planet is a dream that begins to unfold when each of us decides to improve himself” – Mahatma Ghandi

 

Sustainable is “the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” states the Brundtland Report, as the report entitled «Our common future» and published in 1987 has been named after the World Commission on Environment and Development’s chairwoman, Gro Harlem Brundtland.

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With the strength of a Lioness

“To each one of us the duty of transforming our wounds into insertion points for the wings” – J.W.N. Sullivan

 

Forced to stay at home, to rethink our daily activities, to restructure our working modalities, fun and relax time. Unable to go out, the life suggests us another direction, closer and more intimate with ourselves. And right in the moment when restrictions confine us in isolation and social distancing, the spread of the virus unifies us globally in the emotional and spiritual dimension.

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Life lessons from the Vegetal Kingdom

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution” – Albert Einstein

 

Plants can live without us, they have done it for billions of years before the Homo Sapiens appeared on the earth. Without plants, human beings are sentenced to extinction on a short time. The vegetal world itself covers more that 99,5% (estimates vary from 99,5% to 99,9%) of the biomass of the entire planet, reducing the animal kingdom, including human beings, to a miserable percentage.

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