Little is more than enough...
Each book hides a lot of ideas. Thus, with each reading, a new universe is added to the reader's existing universe, breaking the walls of the box from the innumerable ways of being and living that are presente.
The options multiply and the directions grow. Each book contains a new tool for transformation. Walls disappear when our creativity shows us infinite possibilities that did not exist before. That is why our garage has become a center that generates infinity. At different times in history, good books have been thrown into the fire. They are dangerous tools; they help to open many mental prisons.
Centuries ago, the ancient Greeks and Chinese, through Stoicism or Taoism, learned that the only revolution that does not retreat is that of consciousness. An infinite and immeasurable force. All the others are vain and temporary.
If we pay attention, we will see that the real and profound historical changes were made by people who had no more than a few pennies, no technical equipment, no weapons and no helmets. The most angular of them was a man in a tunic and sandals who, with a dozen ordinary men, some even illiterate, traveled through several towns and villages, until he reached an almost forgotten corner of the world, far from the political and economic power of the time, with only love, virtue and an unbreakable will as tools.
In reality, these people had only themselves. They were persecuted, beaten, abandoned and almost all were killed. Their deeds and words were lines in a book that this man never wrote, but which forever changed the course of mankind for millennia. He was followed by countless generals and emperors with their machines of killing and destruction, their economic mechanisms of denial, domination and persuasion. They erected monuments and statues in his honor. All, without exception, have become sad footnotes in the encyclopedia of history. The greatest revolution of mankind took place without weapons or money. When the will comes from the heart, much can be done with little.
The results of my research led me to believe in the enormous behavioral impact of social media; how segmented and obscure interests can inject oceans of money into this tool we are still learning to use. Is this a lie? Of course it isn't. But when we use the tools of the world as a means of manipulation, there is no real transformation; they are temporary changes that will only last until the next season. Despite the enormous impact they have, they don't really change anything, because they don't bring about any change in people. When discourses and perceptions change, but individual consciousness does not expand, nothing moves forward. There is a lot of talk about the economic power of elections, about the lies and deceptions they deliberately provoke, about the violence provoked by the interests at stake.
Is this true? Yes, there is no denying it. But it is only a make-up and it only lasts until dawn. Can the Internet offer good solutions? Absolutely, it has already achieved many wonderful things. Any comfort is welcome, but we can no longer see large-scale social change as a way of living well, influenced only by public policies, without changing minds. Personal development is the path to effective progress in the world. I have to write a separate chapter on this. For real change we need very little. All that is needed is love and will.
Although the road is long, it is amazing how little we need to start making significant changes in our lives. It doesn't take much for essentials to blossom and dreams to begin to come true.
Little is more than enough.
Love, Johnny.
