Instead of dwelling on your problems, start to focus on your dreams.
Instead of complaining about what’s wrong in your life, start to express gratitude for what’s right.
Instead of seeking validation and support from others, start to cultivate a deep sense of self love and self acceptance,
and most importantly, start to take action, start to do something every day that brings you closer to your dreams, your highest aspiration.
For me, food sovereignty is sovereignty over your life, livelihood and health. We are interconnected, therefore food sovereignty is an ecological process of co-creation with other lifeforms. It begins with seed sovereignty: saving and using living seeds. It involves care for the land and soil. We cannot have food sovereignty if we do not feed the soil organisms. Food sovereignty is based on organic farming and avoiding chemicals and poisons. Food sovereignty includes knowledge sovereignty, economic sovereignty and political sovereignty.
I found this on the net without a reference to a book or interview etc.
We have to shift the organic movement into a movement of the people.
Vandana Shiva in an interview for Real Organic Project
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember, that the planet is carrying you.
Created: 2021-01-27
Latest update: 2024-02-16
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. (From the book “The One-Straw Revolution”)
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
If I am selling to you, I speak your language, if I am buying, dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen.
(dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen = than you have to speak German)
If it can’t be reduced, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from construction.
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world – indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.