I Find Peace Like This
I am thinking, how social are we nowadays? We share a lot of things on Facebook, we connect through LinkedIn, we post on Twitter. But does all this make us social?
“Muitas empresas espalham salas de meditação por suas instalações”, diz o americano Soren Gordhamer, criador de uma série de conferências que faz sucesso no Vale do Silício, região da Califórnia onde nasceram algumas das mais influentes empresas de tecnologia da atualidade, como o próprio Google.
Once you arrive in the Mooktawan Sanctuary in Koh Yai Noi Island, in Thailand, you have to wear white clothes. Many people would ask: why wear white?
Uma vez que você chega no Santuário Moonktawan na ilha de Ko Yai Noi, na Tailândia, você deve usar roupas brancas. Muitas pessoas perguntariam: – Por que vestir branco?
You say they are of another faith,
Another creed, or another race,
Incompatible, un-mixable
I’ve lived in London for two years. Since the very first moment I arrived, I knew I would always love this city. In the enormity of London we can find everything we could have ever imagined, and more. We can meet amazing people we would never imagine that would exist and live the most interesting experiences, those that shake our brains and make our hearts vibrate.
One evening in Mooktawan, we were watching a video of Peace In Peace Out (PIPO) event in Africa. Just when the screen showed a monk sitting on the beach, he exclaimed – “THAT could be Cox’s Bazar!” Thus was Carsten’s vision and very soon he convinced me to have the same dream – to bring Peace Revolution to Bangladesh. And we did it! Three months later, crossing many obstacles, we co-created some meditation events to spread the message of mindfulness in our networks in Bangladesh.
Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (GPP) Annual Meeting “What Future for Peacebuilding? Needs, Policy, Action” took place in Geneva at the Maison de la Paix on the 21st November 2014.
Find a space in your room to meditate, to write, to think about yourself and most important to work for a better day. Give yourself a smile.
