If

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If you can keep your head when all around you   

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, 

But make allowance for their doubting too;  

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, 

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, 

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: 


If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster 

And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken 

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, 

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, 

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: 


If you can make one heap of all your winnings 

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, 

And lose, and start again at your beginnings 

And never breathe a word about your loss;  

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew 

To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you 

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ 


If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, 

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, 

If all men count with you, but none too much; 

If you can fill the unforgiving minute 

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run...   

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Rudyard Kipling

virtue

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What is the first virtue?
Humility.
What’s the second?
Humility.
What’s the third? Humility.
Whenever I get asked the same question,
I will give you the same answer.

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Saint Agustine

Care

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“(…) Care is not just a kind of maintenance technique. Certainly, there is an important technical dimension to care, but it isn’t done humanly without the listening, the recognizing of the other, without empathy, solicitude, participation or delicacy. In the beginning of care is the activation of our responsibility for the other. As in its opposite is indifference, abandonment or discard.

(…) Care is the great humanizing experience, the place in the world where we learn the most, the great space of authentic wisdom. ”

José Tolentino Mendonça, in Caring for the Fragile Life, 08.02.2021

[ OP Translation ]

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Caring Together

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Openness

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2021…

That from the Openness to life and to the Other, we find the center on us and become naturally immune to any individual or collective ailment. 

More innocence, more forgiveness, more union, more trust.

More maturity, more cooperation.

All the Courage.

For an increasingly strong, light and luminous existence, with health, joy and art.

Gratitude.

Om Point