The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of valuing quality of life and community over material consumption and greed.
Evo Morales highlights a cultural perspective from the Andes that prioritizes 'living well' rather than striving for more possessions or wealth at the expense of others and the environment. This perspective invites a reevaluation of modern values that often prioritize individual success and consumerism over communal well-being and sustainability.
In practice
In a social media post advocating for sustainable living.
Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.
It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said p/ "That definition's just."/ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ "Force is not might but must!"
As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.
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