And today we will continue With the project of commenting articles from the National Director of Nova Acropolis in Portugal Professor José Carlos Fernandes is a person who writes tremendously Well, has a series of very special articles and we will select some, I believe that about 4 or 5 and do a sequence of lectures about these themes. Today's theme is quality and sense of life. And yes I already recorded a lecture in this respect, that exists in the Youtube, But Professor José Carlos focus, who is always very poetic, very Beautiful, is quite different, as he works With the idea of quality of life directly related to inner life.
And this is the more than propitious moment To talk about this subject And I im going to give a suggestion To the competent authorities to transform The first day of quarantine on the International day of inner life, because It was a moment that everyone was invited to her, some accepted the Invitations, others don’t. But we are here, us philosophers insisting that you Do not miss this opportunity. So our focus today, you will receive the link For the article, a sometimes the page can be out of the air, you insist later.
Within the New Acropolis Portugal page you have articles from the National Director where you will find a beautiful Selection of articles about Several subjects. So let's go with Professor José Carlos Fernandes, evidently commented by me there is no way to be different. Quality and Meaning of Life.
Let's make some comments about what is said in the text. He will start with the observation that We cant be without the time runs away! The only thing we can know about time is that it passes, and passes fast.
Or that sentence in Latin that is so pronounced “Momentum Mori”. Reminds you to remember that you will Die. It means time flows a lot And quickly.
It is a limited resource. And every time you have a limited resource You need to have a system of economy to use it well. I Talk a lot about it when I talk about time administration, that we can not save that and use some other time.
It is every moment you have to use immediately or lose it, You can´t store it. So it requires a lot of presence of spirit because when We lose time, we also lose life. That is this Stage, this moment given to us in the stage of life to perform our role and give our message, that is Fundamental.
Do not to let the audience Leave Empty -handed. So he will talk about Some of the factors that makes our time lost, or one of the factors of Waste of time that is exactly the identification with our mask, the Passenger mask that we use. You know that the name personality comes From what we call Persona, that was the mask used In the Greek theater, it was a mask that sometimes you had four actors or less.
And They played 10 characters. They went Behind the scenes and took a new mask and there was a whole system where they made the mouth in a conical way that the sound could be projected. Conic and spiral conical so that the sound could go a little further and one actor Could perform three or four characters.
But the actor knew all the time who was him and who was that character. Us In relation to our mask, the persona, In general we do not have an identification of Who we are, the actor, and who is the Mask. Only a very good actor, A professional actor who knows how to perform Well, to give your message very well and keep the the conscience of who he is And who is the mask.
The one who identifies with the mask by blending with the Character, as i comment in several Of my lectures is not uncommon you find amateur artists, actors and actresses, who sometimes go to make a Soap opera, such a thing, and take that identify so much with the mask, that lose their own identity, the mask sticks to your own face. In the end get emotional involved with Those they play opposite, Get divorced, and make a lot of confusion because they don't know how to master the mask. Who doesn´t know how to master the mask is dominated by it.
That is not a good actor. You won't imagine a good actor, some Meryl Streep type, A person I like a lot, I don't know You, who will finish a movie and will marry the person with whom She played opposite, because there is a conducting of the mask. And often I Call the attention to this fact.
In relation to our mask, our persona, are We more to Meryl Streep type or for inexperienced soap opera actors? I realized that we have a very deep identification and we lose this notion of actor behind, the one who is Behind the scenes, that has a message to give Through this mask, but it is much more than this mask. And the mask as a material element it obeys to the cycles of matter.
All that is born in time will die with it. So mask has cycles and this cycle is Fast. The cycle of a human life is Amazingly fast.
If we consider a life expectancy That very few countries have, We can say 90 years is very little time. Is a very short time to give our message, and get back to the backstage. And if beyond that we don't know how to master this mask we identify with it, we tend to have the same destination.
We create for us a Character, and this character declines. The mask is material And it suffers from decline. So the mask ages down, dissolves, Dies, but the face behind doesn´t.
This is interesting to observe, the face that It is behind belongs to another Sphere, with other laws and does not obey necessarily to the cycles of matter. And is the search for this face that is Behind, that is the fundamental element that this text exposes as what you must do to seek quality of Life. Professor José Carlos he Divide in his article, he Develops in parallel, is a small Article, he develops in parallel the idea of the external quality of life, this that comes from our connection with Circumstances, and The inner Quality of life.
The quality of life that surrounds us and the quality of life we involve, that goes inside us. Lets discuss a little bit in these two Dimensions. The quality of life he will say that has much more to do, not with possessions or with external circumstances, but with discernment and refinement, this is very Interesting.
This word refinement is a terrible thing, that when we pronounces makes us think on snobbish and Rich people, as if the refinement were only the one who has many things and not The one who has many things to give. Is it Curious this what refinement Is the possibility of you being lucid sufficient and have discernment enough To stop the scene and choose the best Word, the best thought, the best Feeling, the best action. So I am telling you, this is not a statistics but, the people who I knew along my life, and is not so short The finest people were always the simplest, those who had not A concern to look like something But had a real interest in Other people feelings, those were Refined, who were looking for the best word to tell you what had to be told, but with the smallest wound possible, with the lowest possible damage.
And This is the concept of diplomacy To send the message to the world but with less damage Possible. So refinement has nothing to do with Snobbism, is the ability to contain the impetus, impulse to examine the options of your life and to choose that One that is more appropriate that fulfills its function and walks to its destination to your ideal but causing the minimum Damage through way where she passes. He Is going to say that It is interesting because it will allow us To develop an analysis of our Feelings, the feelings of the others Empathy, is purifying our taste, is developing discernment each time thinner more sharp working with this element of construction of an inner life.
There are different views about what is the best of life, he quote that and some names I selected only two, Plato and Shakespeare. Maybe if you were to ask Plato which is the best of life and he does not enter a very philosophical placement. Because I think any great man of the history, if you were to ask him what is the best of life and he was To answer very ipsis literis he would say that is the human ideal, the fullness of Values, virtues and Wisdom.
But Plato If you talk to him in a conversation And Then you ask what is very good for You in life among the best things Maybe he could say ideas, True ideas, true ideas are Wonderful, they project our consciousness for space and they give us an unusual reflection possibility. But if you go to Shakespeare and Ask what is best in life He would say beauty, the beauty that you realizes in the harmony of things from Nature, in the voices of nature, in the voices Of man when he is inspired, and so If you were asking several Men, they would perhaps say what is the best of life is who prints the greatest quality of life or one of the things that print higher quality of life according to their point of view. I recalled an Occasion reading a book by Roger scruton and he quoted an observation From David Hume about the observer Trustworthy, he said, how Can we know if something Is beautiful.
Lets say an Indian song from the Indian culture Hard to hear to the ears of a Western men, how will I know which the good Indian raga? Hume said you would have to get, to be able to judge, what is good, what is Beautiful, what is noble in each context, Takes in this civilization a person who were a reliable judge or whose Life morally, psychologically, spiritually speaking was harmonious enough that must give him a standard to Recognize harmony outside. Then the trustworthy judge, The trustworthy judge is always a person whose vision of the world is reliable.
So returning to the Article of Professor José Carlos I imagine that when you get a Shakespeare, when you get Plato, Who are reliable judges, even if their answer immediately, on Which they are And the things of life can differ as both are reliable citizens with Status of moral harmony these visions must be perfectly conciliable. It is very easy to reconcile beauty with the world of ideas, are almost two ways to talk about the same thing. I think any balanced human being and harmonious in the world that I ask Him: what is the best of life?
he will tell me some things that would be conciliable with any other worthy man from humanity, there should not be contradiction there. And he will continue to talk about This question of choosing. One of the fundamental elements of quality of life is exactly a good choice.
An appropriate choice, like the Pythagorean would say, Beauty is difficult. Is one of the fundamental elements that has to do with the title of this article is the meaning of life. Many times I talked about this theme in lecture and you remember If I ask: Am I walking in The correct direction?
You will have to Ask: where do you want to go? I want to go to the good door, now Its correct, now it's wrong, now it's True, now it's fake, now it's good, Now it's bad, from the establishment of a sense of human life we can make proper choices. Imagine You don't want to get anywhere, just like Alice of Wonderland Talking to Cat, what is the right Road?
Where you want to get girl? I don’t know, nowhere. For those who don't want To go anywhere there isn’t right, any road is right.
Inside of a social standard where people do not have a clear sense of human life, how can they define what is right and what is Wrong? how do they make choices? how they define What is good and what is bad?
How they define what is honest and what is dishonest? There are only two possibilities, or they decide by The collective, is what is fashionable to think, is What everyone thinks, or second place by your interests. There isn’t Any another way, and certainly this is not a good criterion to make choices.
So he is going to say that one of the fundamental elements to contribute with quality of life is to make Human choices, good choices, appropriate choices for a human being. So as the adequate food choice is good for our stomach, the proper choice of Thoughts, feelings, action, are good for our life as human beings. He will talk a little about Initiatives of our life And this is a subject that deserves, I think, a lecture, a live for itself.
Which means the imagination, the Creativity, the will we have to accomplish things, and often, sometimes we don't even arouse this, second place sometimes when We awakened, the society comes and throws a shovel of lime on top of that, This doesn’t make money. In third place, sometimes When we start to develop Our initiative, our creativity, this action that we feel that can bring value to the world, there is a need for survival and in general these actions that bring values to the world are far away To match with the most profitable and well recognized in the world. Look, we go and Come, and i'm already feeling your criticism coming in the air.
Its not a thing of the current moment, neither things in Brazil, or is it from Portugal. Throughout history, Men who wanted to dedicate themselves to very idealistic careers usually weren´t Valorized. Tell me how many artists were valued in a lifetime, tell me How Miguel Cervantes died.
Tell me how many children of Iorran Sebastian Bah died of hunger, disease, in needs. It has never been that easy To perform an idealistic career. So we would have to think about quality of life, to express what we came here to express in the world.
Yes do not stop expressing, if I am A philosopher I will do philosophy. And in fact philosophy is not even a good example, as philosophy should be for everyone and not Just for philosophers, but let's say Im a singer, I will express my realization signing. Bur sometimes Singing is not enough to survive in The current world.
So people pay A tribute to survival we can say, So we survived and We do what we feel that realizes our soul and here Something that is not ilegal Or that cause some damage. This particularly division, in my opinion is not so good, the ideal It would be that you sing and you have a job where you exist in the best Possible way, to take your survival, But then even though if you are not Singing there, worry about bringing a little beauty to it. Well this activity that I perform professionally, through which I survive, it is totally destitute of beauty and does not bring beauty to the world.
if I'm inside and what I do, I do with beauty now It brings beauty to the world. Understand this? If you say in this room you don't have A glass, I will say it has, look here I have one.
So in this room there is a glass. If you, inside your job, Does things with beauty, with spirit of Kindness, has no desire, in this job has, look here, I'm using, I have. The idea is to not restrict our hearts, do what we do Even if we don’t dream with this we need to do something more than we do with the same Spirit.
Will know that in general what realizes us, what brings us quality of life, is exactly where We express our heart and not necessarily the place where we make a lot of money. There is a thinker who I greatly admire, that it is a philosopher of last century, Sri Ram, he said you Must lose your heart, and then spend whole day seeking for it, at the end of the day you will find that your heart is the heart of all things. Then this is an element to consider in your quality of life.
what you do in your exterior life and how you do it, No matter what it is. He will talk about the living time or the time we have of fertility, of freedom, to extract the best from life and pass on enriched by our existence. I remember a lot of Gibran Whenever he says we are spots Of enrichment from the gifts of life.
What is the well -enjoyed time where We extract the best of life, we take all the inputs that life gives us and we enrich, We worked, we reflect, We bring beauty, kindness and We direct this to follow your course in life. This is the time when We are free, the time we take life resources and time that we are prisoners, is the time where we restrict our life to act Mechanic and our happiness to a mere comfort or the standards of society of Fame, of comfort, recognition. This is the time that we subject to jail.
He will talk about this great men who produced wonderful things with their body imprisoned, but with the free soul. So one of the elements for us to consider when we want to have quality of life is how much we have this Concern, to put our Creativity, our symbolic vision To Extract the best of life. our creativity in the sense of enrich it and return it to life we We have a service to provide to life, to stop to think among other things, that our quality of life, The life has to be qualified not only for us, but our life has to be qualified for nature.
It invested on us, It invests to keep us alive, it invests in land, water, air and fire to keep us alive. And we don’t add anything to the work of nature. So quality of life has to do with what I do through my life, Not just for me, but also for the world.
An apple tree to perpetuate needs only one apple, but it produces dozens many times hundreds along your life, because it doesn’t produce only for itself, it produces for the world. Also this is an element to be considered. So a free man is a man who is open to all the provocations of life, To enrich them and return them to the world With the added values of your own life.
One more sip of water in this glass, I added the value of my life, I don't Pass on simply what I received. And the incarcerated man is the one Who let himself be imprisoned, by the mere survival, that is instinct of Survival and instinct of perpetuation of the species with as much comfort as possible and Nothing more. I always play with my students that if you use for example, an amoeba, or any other very simple Animal, lets say any protozoan.
You have there very simple organic structure. What does that animal wants? To survive and Procreate.
Then you get a human being, Super complex, full of faculties. In general what he wants? To survive and Procreate.
Well what is this? It´s a VIP ameba. With the whole potential that was given us, we summarize to so little.
Professor José Carlos says that is a type of jail. He will talk about the Contamination. We should avoid contamination that blunt our senses to the vision of beauty and blunt our intelligence for the vision of good and ends up With the quality of life.
Imagine the number of contamination, where we would have to learn how to identify this. I don't see things sharply why? Because I give up thinking for myself, Became a merely repeater of the opinions from the collective, I give up Learning from Life, I became a Mere… I gave a play to run life software.
And i´m a repeater of what everyone always does, to gives up my identity, for comfort, what kind of comfort? This is something interesting, to locate where we are contaminated. We are living a time where contamination is the subject of the day, Am I contaminated or not?
and we use masks, and the gloves. What do you do to find out if you are not contaminated mentally? What do you do to know if you are not contaminated emotionally?
If your feelings are really yours? If you thoughts are really yours? Look There were huge catastrophes in history that were not provoked by physical contamination, but by fanatic ideologies contamination, crazy ideologies of collectives hate.
It also kills and kills a lot. And we have a story full of such events. Then, worry About the contamination that blur the vision of Beauty, of the goodness, of justice, that blocks our contact exactly with those things that can give us the most quality of life.
I bet with you that, a pure act of legitimate kindness will give you, that day and maybe for a cycle of your life, a state of grace, a state of quality of life that hardly something else would give you. A day when you realize that through you the good came into the world. Observe the repercussion of this in your life, the feed that it gives you.
What else we can put… Well, about the outer life, yet detailing some things About outer life. We would have to choose between a decent life and an expensive life. What does a decent life means?
Is the one where we have what we need. No one is proposing that we became people who live like the Cynics, that had absolutely nothing. Diogenes who lived inside a barrel.
No! That we have what we need. But that the focus of our life is not to have things, but to have ourselves, to have the reins of our lives in our hand and Control, so that we do not deviate of what is proper to the human condition.
So the expensive life brings comfort, a dignified life also, is a level of comfort of conscience that few imagine, Is what I call the sleep of the righteous. I will sleep in peace with the day and with the night, waking and dream consciousness. I'm going to sleep even with heaven and earth.
If this is not comfort, I do not know What it is, because there is no pillow, soft enough to give a good night of sleep for a man who knows, and our conscience knows that we were not worthy. Then decent life or life wasteful of material resources, without further purposes, simply to put ourselves between Cottons, and we don't need cottons. There comes a certain moment that We became too fragile.
Is like that child who is isolated, almost in a greenhouse to not Get any disease and get more fragile than Everyone. But we don't need it, And is not good for us to live between cottons. And another thing that is interesting that he Brings, is to have more space, that is also the quality of life index.
Why do we have more space for? Once I played with my students of study techniques about an idea similar to this. People have an apartment that has a living room, 2 bedroom, a pantry and 2 toilet for Example.
Then I say where you study, where Do you reflect, where you select, where Do you have your small or medium library? The size of my house Doesn’t have space for that. Then I asked these students and now I ask you, if I made a way to get this 2 bedroom apartment of that person and put one more room, what would it be used for?
What I remember that a student answered me that he would put in a second television so that each person is able to watch a different program, and yet there wouldn´t be this space to dedicate ourselves to develop our inner Life. Don't you think this is interesting? We have room for us to be passive, but not to be Active.
What space do we reserve to elevate our conscience, to live that encounter with the soul, that Plato called the divine leisure, To seek to realize, cultivate and even give birth to ideas? Recently I record a video where I spoke about the importance of ideas for a person's life. For us, that we are teachers at New Acropolis, Is an amazing thing, amazing.
I believe that in any profession Is the same thing. An idea that you have, an observation about any law of life, an observation on behavior of humans or a plant, Or an animal the reflection of this in relation to human life, An idea sometimes sustains you to teach excellent classes for a week or more The power and fuel of a good idea is incredible. Now, ideas need to be sought, they need to be cultivated.
You need to develop a whole muscle to be able to Generate, give birth to ideas. And what is the Space, what is the time, and what is the energy We dedicate to this? Perhaps there is nothing that gives us a better quality of life.
Remember that I spoke a while ago about the practice of good? The practice of good, practice of Justice, the search for the truth, In other words, search for ideas, are a series of things that gives a quality of life that I doubt anything else can give to you. And if you come to me and say: Look, Lucia I´ve been very sad.
And I say to you: You need to get more sun and a little more moisture I put you in the sun and trow water at you. Your happiness is a Plant. A plant needs sun and water, A human being will be tanned And hydrated and unhappy.
An animal: I need more food and I need To procreate! Ok, I put a lot of food in front of you and I put you to procreate. You will be very well fed with Instincts answered, but unhappy.
There are Certain things that are specific happiness for each type of beings. The specific needs of the human being is To give him values, and the ideas are tools to reach wisdom, tools to get you to the truth, Are things that feed us and give us a quality of life that no other Thing can give. Experience and try, Is a joke but realize that sometimes the type of quality of life that We seek is more plant and animal than human being.
We don't even know what makes us happy, this is very curious. What do we know about us? Rich is not the person who retains much But the person that gives a lor, so quality of life seeking for an abundance of material things.
Maybe you could give a look at the history to realize that the great men who had a standard of Life, that we can say so, satisfactory for them and gave more To the Humanity were not men who retained the wealth, but the ones who delivered it. So Man become rich and wealth for what they give and not For what they retain. If you need to have a lot of things to feel special, the merit is of things and not yours.
So consider what kind of wealth would also give us quality of life and satisfaction I have many ideas, when people ask me it may be that I make many mistakes, but I always have Some idea that I risk. I think, but I'm not talking about me, I'm giving An example of any person. I think always in a way to help others, You are a very rick person.
And it is very curious when we look at a historical moment like this one that we Live, because every time that Catastrophes happen, of course I hope we don't get so far, I don't think so, but if you observe great Catastrophes in the History, when everything falls at the end of a Great War, the end of a great prolonged plague, in humanity has value the men who had a little Fraternity, who had a little wisdom to control itself and Think about others. Can you imagine in End of a War the land scorched, someone looking for a person who has Diplom or with a high bank account? Will those have any Value?
At this time counts who has light, even if it's a small flame, who is capable of lighting a fire and To illuminate everyone, to cook everyone's food, who keeps calm and capable of conducting the Group, so when the darkness is Absolute, appears the true wealth. No one will meet around that One from when there were banks had a millionaire account or when existed apartments had 20 of them, or when There were diplomas had more than 10, if This did not become a human form to answer the circumstances of life. And This is true wealth.
At the time Land is devastated, at the time that everything Is darkness, who is important? Those who have light! And light are human values, this is real wealth.
He is going to talk about beauty, that is also a much sought-after element in terms of the ideal quality of life. and something that it is interesting, that he will say is that the Beauty is not in a formatted life by fashion patterns but in a full life. It´s a curious thing that you Note, that you do what you do, I am not against it, look for all cosmetics, look for everything you want, but nothing prevents time from passing and the old age to come, and what has to be corrupt will be, and there aren´t a forces in human creations to stop this process.
And now the full life that will be Acquiring, as men will have more wisdom, more to offer, more things to share, will conquering more words that brings consolation to those who hear them, as the physical life decays this metaphysical life goes up, which is a compensation vector. You will reach the end of life with physical appearance of something that is ending your vital process, but perhaps With a spiritual, metaphysical appearance, Moral that is pure light. And what People are in really need of?
Where would they run at the critical Moment? We need a lot of this beauty that comes from the fullness of the human condition. We need it too much!
For all corners we have delicate situations and lack Of humans who assume the rules of everything, this decisively, with virtues, with values. We see a time and where the good leader, enlightened by this internal light of the human fullness are unfortunately more rare. And this is an element To meditate on.
What kind of beauty do we really Seek? The one that nothing or anyone can take away from us. Probably this is more valuable and this provides quality of life.
Contemplation, Reflection, serene emotions and mind without selfishness is the agenda of those who has quality of life and wants To continue having. So let's see my agenda to have quality of life in the year 2020 if possible, in 2021 for sure. What do I want to have quality of life?
Ah I want to make this and that Things with your body. Is it necessary? So do it.
I want to have such and such material goods. Well, do you need them? So have those.
But those things are mean and not an end. The end always incites in the terrain of being. If you really want to have quality Of life your agenda should be This: I want to have more Contemplation, reflection, serene emotions and mind without selfishness for sure.
Realized something interesting, I am not The one to condemn material goods, I'm not medieval, this has nothing to do with that, But consider that the one whose goal is the being, the having in the middle of the way can help, ex. i want to be a very fair person if I have material goods I can help to implement justice, And can benefit those who suffer. Having as a means does not compete at all with being as an end.
But if you have the aim, of having, I want to be the richest person in the world, As an end, being as a means sometimes gets in the way. I am very fraternal and I want to have The greatest Fortune of the world, this will be complicated I will never get to accumulate that much fortune, because fraternity disturbs me. So putting things in your place nothing is bad in Universe, every thing in your place,nothing Is bad in the universe.
Having is not a sin, We are in not in a middle age, and i hope that We will not go back to any, but It is not enough to justify a human life. So make sure in your quality of life agenda if you have contemplation, reflection, Serena emotions, and mind without selfishness. This would be a very decent goal for those who Wants to qualify your life.
And he puts a beautiful phrase from Seneca, very interesting, very beautiful phrase, that Seneca said the Following: “Changes from century and you will realize that your needs today were luxuries before, what now You considers as a basic, vital, may Tomorrow be an unreachable luxury. ” And I ask you to pay attention to This, that water running out of your Tap. Sometimes when I hear a noise of running water, I wonder how long more we will be able to have the water Like that?
Clean drinkable water to the point of leaving there running, as so many Let it, to the point of handling in a kind of irresponsible way. Sometimes You pass by a house that you know that lives one person there, and you see all windows, of all rooms With the light on. How long we will be able to waste energy in this way?
How long will we have resources for that? So what we consider today As a perfectly normal thing can be luxury in the future. And we are defining our happiness, our quality of life for what we have.
be careful this can be complicated. I am from time that started cell phone, There are few generations that lived with it the whole life, I realized this coming. And I remember that the first person I knew who had a cell phone, I said: “Please God Free myself from it, I am not a doctor To have a person locating me all the time.
For what reason I have to have a device that all the time people can interrupt what I'm doing, what is the need for it For me? And today we consider it as Indispensable, and its not long ago. Maybe this in the future is no longer so important, so don’t define your quality of life on such Superficial things.
We have, We don’t have, we have, we don’t have. And then your quality of life will depend on the historical circumstances in which you were born? Are you not capable of imposing yourself to the environment?
Aren´t you capable of being who you are independent of The circumstances like the golden man who Plato said? The gold does not corrupt and regardless of circumstances where it is, it is faithful. Anyway, then An element to consider a good reflection About this Seneca phrase.
And he will continue to say that this interior life, guarantees values Permanent and invariables, that never Can be taken away from you, What is really yours can't be taken from you, and only these values, the rest until this here will be taken from us, only these Values, cannot be taken from us they are invariable, are consistent Give autonomy, freedom and happiness. He will Talk about Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella, Feodor Dostoevski, Lu Carcere Do you think they more or less free than the the slaves of alienation that we find loose on the streets? Looking guided by a programming that was already on their side When they were born, life Software, Only pay it, who is free after all?
And what is the field where our freedom is more fruitful and more quality Can give to our life? Its inner life construction of a solid identity based on values, that allows us make good choices, that allow us Serenity, peace of Spirit, full realization, In the level we are. You can say That fulfilled life only in perfect men.
No! Perfect men who Will come at the end of human evolution, will have a achievement that is proper to their step, We have realization that is proper to our step. This is already said in The Egyptian Caibalion: “what is above, is below”.
I believe that a planet when completing its orbit, If it have or if it had awareness of it It would have a level of happiness that is not Larger or smaller than a man who completed the cycle of your day doing what Corresponded to him as a human being. Planet doing what corresponds to the Planet, and man doing what corresponds with the human being, the Happiness is identical. The universe does not know where small begin and where the big ends, it does not exist This only exists in our imagination.
So inner life begins to generate, really another level of quality of Life. And he will say that the human soul, this essence that resides in us, to have Quality, it needs a reference of direction, an ideal, I want to reach the end of my life greater, More aware of my human condition, with more values integrated to my life Than i had when I arrived, I want To make a difference to myself and to the World. It needs a goal and loyalty to this goal, only these two things she Needs, and she already provides you an infinity of quality of life.
Many men in History, like these three we mentioned inside a jail, were capable of having a very good quality of life inside of a jail, in a way that we loose In the streets could not reach this same level of quality of life. So the source is internal, this one thing important to highlight. When we use time, when the time becomes inner space, we We have known to live well, we have known To enjoy the time, this is very important.
This inner life, he concludes that it does not fear the time and has no fear death, it is the source of true quality of life. What we are in a very good time to turn in, and realized what would be this quality of life, who am I, Where do I want to go with all that, What tools I will use, what accomplishes me In fact, what makes me happy in fact, what are the tools that I will choose to build my life, what gives me the quieter sleep, the quieter vigil, what makes me meet with myself because it gives me the Fullness. This is a good time to get out of the external alienation, and turn inside and build Our true quality of life.
What he is going to conclude in a Very beautiful way people, very beautiful, he takes a Text of Upanishads, and are a set of Wonderful Indian texts, and this Upanishads will talk a little about a word That. The That to which it refers to, this Divine essence in the man that if you have, Everything else will be given by addition, as says the Bible. He refers to a Character, a name really, that is Maitreya, means the Benevolent, the friendly, is a conversation that you have with listening to benevolent A man, who really wants to know what has value in your life, be someone wiser Than you, what you will say in your friendly ear what is that if you have, You have everything, but if you didn't win You have absolutely nothing, so it was the Peel, things without root, that by any Tremor of time and historical moment everything goes by.
So let's hear little of that text? “In fact a husband is not loved by your wife, because only when you love That, the husband is truly loved. Certainly a wife is not loved by your husband, only when you love That wife is truly loved.
” In fact children are not loved by your parents, only when you love That Children are truly dear. In fact wealth is not loved by The rich because only when you love That the wealth is truly dear. In fact the Brahman caste is not loved by them because only when you love That, the caste of the Brahumnes is truly beloved.
And actually the kshatryas caste is not Dear by them because only When you love that the kshatryas caste is truly the dear. Actually the worlds are not loved by men, because Only when you love That the worlds are truly dear. Actually Gods are not loved, because only when You love That the gods are truly Loved.
And in fact creatures are not loved Because only when you love That Creatures are truly dear. And certainly there is nothing that you can love because only when you love That all Converts, all converts to the object of your love. That has to be seen, heard, perceived and known oh Maitreyi!
When We see, we hear, we perceive and We know the being all The rest is truly known. ” It is very beautiful, very inspiring, and I hope May give you a good Reflection, that provides you with quality and meaning of life, that are actually Two and one and both came from inner life. Thank you very much.
