m
do not
I want to tell you that I am about to
turn 70 years old not to have me
a cake but to say that what
I’m going to share the result one
experience of a long career in
this issue and not lived through the
books but rather live and in
direct or through the media
following carefully when it happens in
other places
from that I could form the
conviction that only a handful of
committed citizens committed and
articulated can change the world
In fact I am also convinced that the
only sustainable way to do it and
because I’m worried because I think that
today, humanity needs
that citizens take the helm
there are two themes that particularly
they have enough anguish to use a
bad word
16 climate change and 8 the theme
elected social
both as I want to develop more
forward also macará
in the same way different face of the
same currency forgiveness and product of
offer of global and limited growth
in a limited ecosystem and that’s why the
former president obama who personally
I miss you so much said recently in
the country cope said we are the first
generation in vélez impact of change
climate and we are also the last one
can do something about it and so
so much of and it’s that I sold I have a
powerful simple conviction that is what
the trip to santiago has hit me
share today with you with the
illusion that jala sounds you
that to change the world
today you need to connect to the interior of
us with a purpose that they solve
with the dreams of most good
life and planted seeds and rules for
to be able to support what I am saying is
selected three experiences that I lived
been quite close 1 May 68
I had to be 19 years old at the
pedagogical the University of Chile
When the revolution breaks out from Paris
like making a real burst of
student citizens asking for reforms
cultural and social issues in Chile
always the mirror what happens in the
northern hemisphere in chile canvas
Chileans still lies mercury
resonating year year as a complaint
concert regarding the making of
authoritative decisions and what he gave
place at that time 44 years ago with
the educational reform that my generation
still do not forget
another experience the campaign of no
the year 89 without fear without hatred without
violence we manage to travel
peacefully to democracy
converting chile into a
true example of how you can
transform a reality from the
active nonviolence of all a
very high percentage of citizens and
finally the year 2011 I want to refer
to the movement the outraged that touched me
this pure coincidence
I was going to a meeting in France and it happened
by paris just when they were
installing the camps and after
I returned just when I was
raising 15 days later to go to the
localities and there I could see again how
with non- violent methods but very
ingenious of participation and the
involvement they resonated with the
need for virtually all
countries of the world to do are seen
to see represent the class action
greater economic crisis in Spain
democratization of the Arab countries and
in our case, the reform
Educational until today
we continue living its repercussions
from these three examples I have
so many more that you could share this one
the next learning came
the changes are never driven by the
elites emerge from your comfort space
they do not result when they are imposed
with force when someone wants
impose by force
reappear
every time with greater resentment with
greater pain with greater injuries so
both the effective social change is the
that arises in a context of discomfort
deep social when someone or a couple
of some there is a gesture
insignificant that resonates in the minds
and the hearts of the majority and the
mobilizes around that shared dream
the result is never what the
impellers imagined but always
it is a fruit and suspected of an effort
cumulative of many past people and
present
I imagine that it touches each one of these
reasoning the phrase to have driven
something and that turns out something else and that the
life checks is always better so
so much in synthesis what I want to say is
that today we need to change the world
and to change the world we need
connect with the purpose many people
question but as a seal what is my
purpose I answered him not
responded to myself in a way that
I want to share with you I need
find meaning to why I’m alive is
so improbable does not accept the conditions
that people who make life possible like
we know her that I say my hand to
hand goes up it’s so unlikely that I
I want to imagine that the universe has a
evolutionary plan for humanity as the
we know and within that unemployment of
that plan
I understand that it is not my plan it is the plan
of the universe and called it something that
some people name it and
they try to interpret the who the how
I the truth that he only left in the field
of the ministry and the future but it came
up there just but what I do have left
clear is that if there is a plan like I think
that plan has a purpose for me
and I respond to my purpose by thinking
what I have to do is
just leave the world a little
best
a better granite I do not have to do the
commission decides to save the planet because
the planet is saved
rather if we are not true but
I do not want to be arrogant either
imagine what a great
difference but instead I can
dedicate me to plant seed seeds that
has the tree as a possibility
I can not plant the tree I can not
ensure that he will see a forest yes he could
increase the seed in the best
conditions and give away now understanding
have to plant seeds something that we can
to do in every moment of life
through facilitating a writing workshop
the chapter of the book suddenly
answer an email from
someone I do not know or in this
conversation that knows how many girls in
all previous talks have been
planted in the hearts of you and
they will mobilize the action
that’s something we can all do
true why easy
I have a purpose raised what is my
dream and planted the rings and the truth
that you sleep well when you feel that
has done that
that day many of the initiatives that I
I have not been driven me but
I have never thought to fail because the
truth is that they were transformed because
other people seized the idea
they enriched it and something different came out
better or because it’s the same as the flower in
the desert waiting for the
conditions to offer and germinal but
fail hamas to verify this that
I’m saying it’s possible to do the
difference part of the act a seed
I’m going to take two real stories there’s a
journalist that the previous decade wanted
know how it was that he had left
disarmed the Soviet Union project
knocked down the berlin wall and with what
which the warlike confrontation between
capitalism and communism that did not have the
edge of the third world war and that
it would be the last
how it was that they suddenly
again it was over and he discovered that there was
in the early eighties
at a meeting called by the Pope
juan pablo second to the president of
united states ronald reagan ya mijail
gorbachev the chief of estadal union
Soviet and from then on it starts
everything we know what it was that put
end to the cold war as reagan and the
papa had died the mahi journalist
converses with corbacho and tells him how it was
who did it in who was inspired by him
he said I was inspired by za’s back
that having people who love had founded
the first independent union the
Soviet invitation solidarity after
he was later president of poland
and for this Nobel prize peace roll
and walesa was alive he tells me
I inspired Martin Luther King
the African-American wrestler of states
united fought for the rights
civilians of the black race and also
Nobel prize of peace and murdered
since they were not Martin Luther King
the journalist went and made his writing
that the writings in mind that martin
luther king says that he had
identified and motivated with the packs
who punks her a woman
african american seamstress who lived in the
montgomery city in United States
city in which blacks
they had decided to boycott the system
transportation to resist is such that
they had the obligation to say
segregated mind in the back that
she does that day she gets up she goes to the
corner always gets on the bus and it
feel in front of you be more stir up the
police
and good there begins the long fight and
conquest of civil rights that does not
ends until today
confused because everyone the whole
people discover here the point of
inflection in that process
Then the question on that day
He rose abruptly to issuing will
change the destinies of the world not her
he limited himself to that day doing the right thing
do what I had to do something simple
sit in front it ‘s true that she
influenced Martin Luther King
directly but also to the brush
also to Mikhail Gorbachev and also to
all Latin American countries because
our military dictatorships were the
mirror of this communism confrontation
capitalism that came just from
the Cold War
therefore all our lives and
who knows how many more you can
influence directly by the packs
that did not want to change the world
simply planted in seed
casting today’s threat of tremendous
magnitude is true climate change and
the inequity that we said were two
parts of the same coin
I want to show an image
that has a terrible image not true
that shows us the Mediterranean Sea as
the scenario of the tragedy
what is this these are people who
come mostly from Africa
continent discarded by the world
western the same western world that
created the conditions for today
Africa has been declared the continent
ruled out that dreams the family in
families that flee from hell because
they have no better option than running
the risk that because the sequence
they have lived is destruction
environmental to climate change ecosystem
drought poverty and famine and after
violence for power is in the
sequence is in the common story that
there is behind all this of all
African countries and ending in the
Mediterranean as we know it is to say
of my life when there is no other option
and the answer that we are having as
civilized world is to look towards another
side and let it fall until now
this image of this child appears and children
It took three years for us to wallow, it hurts
soul and not jabre we will mobilize the
most countries improve their policy
of immigration up to 1 you might suspect
that maybe the purpose of hainan was
make that change in the world in their
short three years and the process is for
the speculation
then this challenge when we
we say never again to stage this challenge
much more difficult to solve
the one that lived in the 80 from the ii
world war the cold war because
because there are not two men who can
make the decision
like in that minute
they were Reagan and Gorbachev because neither
there is a decision to make today well
we have to convince the trillion
about consumers that reduce their
environmental footprint is to say energy water and
natural resources without affecting
mostly their life indicators
human is to say long life and
healthy education what we already know
there we have the tools
joined in turn are also the six
millions of its consumers who have
urgently improve their indicators
from human development to health the
housing education without increasing its
environmental footprint because if someone arrives
have an environmental footprint like
have left the
there is no possibility for the
ecosystem of the planet earth
then we understand that of what
we are talking in both cases is a
profound cultural change
translated into having to modify their
lifestyles not only for it
for all humanity
so complex is the dilemma that
we face today then I could not
say overwhelming not because it’s a little
distressing
however if one believes that
effectively the universe has a plan
evolutionary for humanity in which each
you have your role and that allows you to imagine
how yum said that through these
citizen demonstrations of the
the last time it is manifesting what
what I called collective intelligence
as the great guardian of this dream of
achieve a type of relationship that allows
that makes possible a decent life for
all the inhabitants of the from nothing
special earth
me too and we go further and said yes
I align myself with my purpose appear
things
significant evidence the person
exact at the airport the book the
fair book the library appear
signs that facilitate my putting in
March in the personal is in me for me
is my management tool to take
decisions and move on with a video
not when I have the impulse to continue in
an address and consciousness appears
meaningful I feel like I’m doing well and
persevered if they do not appear
I stop and I listen because at once to
I’m wrong, you have to miss a
of those you have to wait for them to appear
new new signs
therefore one day and what for
close this conversation two
invitations to leave planted
raised one since we have to change
we have to start changing each one
within us change consciousness
change the behaviors because when
we change the behaviors we
listen to businessmen and politicians
through the survey and they adapt
quickie because they feel that
they need us to be aligned with the
options that they offer us and and for me
this change has to do with doing each
day what we have that is not prize
nobel is not so complicated is to pick up the
container turning off the light and closing the key
understanding that every drop every action
generates unsuspected repercussions
an example is worth more than they are
speech then wrong that speech the
example the daily action and second
stop grumbling and get going
join with those who share the same
I dream to identify what my problem is
which we want to take over and
fall in love with the solution and start and
moving is to say in other words
participate in the market in the photo in
the student center the neighbor board the
sports club volunteer jobs
in the demonstrations get out
the living and participate but not of
any way in what I had in what
everyday with attention and with intention
in the public without fear without hatred and without
violence and with him bought by cited the
purpose of leaving the world a little
better than the first one we found it
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