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The Portuguese, at their best,
have a vision of the future
and a sense of what they will do.
They are warriors on the move,
this represents the idealistic part of the soul.
They fight for what they believe,
they feel there is something happening that is very important and worthwhile
but they project it toward a very distant horizon, in an exotic land
it must be anywhere but here
between us.
When King Afonso Henriques,
when the Christians,
arrived in Lisbon
where today is Lisbon's Main Cathedral
there was a Mosque
and there is a Portuguese document, a Portuguese manuscript,
one of the oldest ones
as old as the foundation of Portugal, that says, simply this:
At the same hour
everyday
all people would gather in the Mosque
Muslims, Christians and Jews
to pray to the same God.
This is fantastic.
Never has there been a country, in the whole history of Europe
where this could have happened
and this happened here in Portugal
for a long time, many generations.
We are a very empathic people
that connect very much to others.
We manage to establish deep, strong connections with others.
They are human bonds.
and because these bonds are humane
we can easily live with cultural differences.
and this helps us to interact with different people in the world.
and I think this might have been one of the reasons for our successes
one of the characteristics that allowed for the Discoveries to occur
because the Portuguese discoveries were completely different than the discoveries of other countries.
we mixed between other peoples, like the Mulata
for example, the Brazilian Mulata
it's a living symbol
of this multicultural approach.
It's a way of being present with the others.
To me, the Portuguese soul
is a soul that makes synthesis
of the highest human moral and ethical qualities.
so, it is a soul of synthesis.
It is a soul that has the capacity to be the synthesis
to be the foundation
to bring forth the best expression of everyone
to materialize projects that can help evolve the planet.
The Romans, when they arrived
said that from all of the people's they had encountered,
the Portuguese were the only ones who could not govern themselves
and would not allow anyone to govern them.
and characteristics of the Pisces sign.
Fernando Pessoa said
in the words of Alvaro de Campos
"Portugal is all and everyone
it is plural, like the universe"
Portugal's physical space and frontiers
have always been very stable compared to other countries.
and in reality it's funny because we are always saying
"our little garden next to the sea"
"our little corner"
it's always this thing about being very small.
and I think this is connected to our way of thinking
so maybe there is a childish side
this thing of being and saying small things, like
"little corner"
"little garden"
and so on.
So we are all "Chicos espertos" (going around the law without confrontation)
These are characteristics of the Lusitanian (Portuguese) soul
If we can do it better and better, we will
and so the "Chico espertismo"
is a way to deny, and go around the law
but in reality it is a way of accepting the status quo.
I think this is a big handicap for the Portuguese people
this condition of being ashamed,
and this "It's not worth while, I'm just one person, I can't do anything"
"I can't manage, I'm not capable"
They don't believe in themselves.
One of the things that characterized
the space where the Portuguese lived
was the non-definition of borders
around the body.
If I ask, "What are you going to do tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow is Sunday, what are you going to do?"
The response very well could be
"Ah, I'll be around"
"around" is non-defined
it is where we like to live
in the non-definition
it is this non-definition that allows opportunities
it allows a lot of good things as well
but they don't choose them.
Unlike what Fernando Pessoa did
he used this way of being non-defined to transform himself
to radically transform
but everything that is radical is rejected
by the Portuguese
because we are afraid, because we have fear of shock
and this was one of the things that Salazar managed to do
He managed to mortify us,
to steal our energy
in a way that..
we are still not fully conscious of
because we don't have the tools to analyze it
it goes beyond psychiatry.
So today we have to start bringing consciousness back to the Portuguese
to awaken to our interior discovery.
It's a discovery of our profound identity
but it's also a discovery of a new ethical relationship with others
whether it is a human, an animal, whether it is nature, or the universe.
So today, I think that is the big discovery.
The work, the mission of Portugal will never be realized
unless each Portuguese fulfills their own mission
which means, to perfect themselves
which means, to take on the spiritual life
the spiritual life must be manifested
must be realized
and this takes a bit of work
which is self knowledge
which is meditation
to make important decisions
to have some self-esteem
to be able to solve your own problems
through overcoming obstacles
all of this makes up the spiritual path of every individual.
I think it's very much a question of people getting together,
getting to know each other
building relationships and realizing that
a lot has already been done,
a lot of change is already occurring.
We only need to keep going with this change,
and some leadership is obviously necessary to drive this change,
to show another path
but I have no doubt that we have the potential for something big.
So we see that something is really happening,
or something is about to happen,
but if it is not done with compassion
this 'something' will not be realized in its entirety.
If we want to do something that will last,
it must be with a vision of the whole,
with a vision of the Absolute
and that can only be done through compassion
and universal Love.
I dove into this sea
of the good ideas that Plato spoke about,
this sea that is available to all of us,
and we can download new things,
spread them throughout the world,
leave this vibration of fear,
and really connect with our light, with our strength, with our passion
which is to really be Human.
Aho!
and understand that we are the synthesis of several Eurasian peoples
and we have a great responsibility to the world
because that is our genetic history.
So if we are forgetting ourselves,
history will knock on our door one of these days
very soon
and say "wake up"
wake up because its the time
to roll up our sleeves, rebuild the country
and make a new era of expansion of discoveries in the world.
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