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op sea conviction rhythm and during
many years I intuited a trip to
should make this trip that is
close to two groups of people with
very different realities of mine that
is close to people in situation
of begging in areas of
vulnerability drugs marginalization
misery of all kinds
I also wanted to be close to
people from the interior people who live
very difficult and so maybe
very simply people who
earth care survive work
arm
I managed to make this trip when
I go out on the road did not have a
very clear reason why I was going
where did this my need was
simply an intuition
I also did not know exactly what
do when you get there in these areas
so I had already participated in
groups or to take joint actions in the
streets and help the street population and the
group is great is the group he keeps
a constancy a consistency this
type of action in the merits group
the group works our humility to
comply with a decision that you do not
played better but the movie group has a
It’s a little thing that always bothered me.
group it has opened and gives a
among the people who are going to help
the people being assisted
huh
I think I’ve unconsciously already
I realized this, we are arriving our
us with our shirt that from our
group and we will help these people
needy and they thought look only
Cool, the people are coming. Come on.
helping the exchange is usually very good
But I needed to feel that reality.
more fully in a more
deeper
So it ‘s 100 group I went alone and
I started going to these areas, right?
drug vulnerability and I ended up
finding many of the answers
questions I was not asking
I arrived with needs and asked in
bakery in a newsstand where he had
large county
the action of beggars and then I went there
I went to cracolândia in são paulo
I spent some time there to serve the
revellion is with the beggars of
barriers in the bay and in large cities
and capitals and presents urban and
squares with great presence of beggars
I would arrive there with my small backpack.
with some banana biscuit sandwiches and
I would start sitting next to me
began to eat and offered for the
people who were closest to me
and we start to change idea and I
I listened quite right my order
is to know of your past life the
who took him this street condition
will be marginal will be addicted but
constantly told me about
their past lives and looked for
listen carefully and speak with your eyes
is to speak of love of a judgment nor
love them with a touch with
hand on his shoulder with a
I was recognized I started to realize
that in these exchanges, I was not
making a vertical quality like
I felt before I even think that
nor was it a charity because I too
talked about my pains my losses
My joys did not matter
to expose myself as vulnerable because I
I’m also vulnerable
I talked about my sushi pains .
my pains told me about my eagerness to
be happy because I’m very thirsty
happiness
It’s in these exchanges I got to know
the trajectories of these people and in the street
all in all
and I started to realize that I was
venerating these people as teachers of the
survival and the promenade listens to
as a friend and for many times I went
recognized as a friend and for me to be
recognized as a much better friend of the
to be recognized by any work
any done any words that I
I have given there and then these
early experiences on the streets
I began to feel the need one
I wish I started to feel welcomed
for them I started to feel more
comfortable in this type of environment
so I wanted to create bonds
deeper I went to sleep on the street
I wanted to be living that reality.
as close as possible despite knowing
I know that equality she might not
there is not
is the year in our exchanges during the
night so that the night will turn and
and for them religiousness or
spirituality and I kneel before
he asked them to perform to
me with my hand on my head I had
an idea and also in a few days
so I bought the bags of bread and
I made cheese sandwich I started to
encourage them to distribute with me
to other beggars
Then began beggars begin to
help other beggars and it’s amazing
how to be on duty if you put the
service of the neighbor can regenerate the
our spirit can not give a
response to feeling of worthlessness
that such persons in such conditions
street and they have can give an answer
to me maybe to us
our sense of powerlessness
in the face of the suffering of the world, I
when is it when I’m on duty?
I strongly encourage my
reflections on the same conduct in the
my family at work in transit
in the supermarket I think
service being supportive I think we
ignites to being a better person each time
the best son the best husband the best
friend best co-worker the best
Unemployed
the best is wronged the best
neighbor the best battered I started to
share some of these experiences
So many stories that I’ve lived
so the last few times
I started sharing with some friends and
people and many people
praise from brave and I started here
I never really liked it that way.
I began to realize that the courage in
many cases in my it was a process
fairly long
I remember when I was around
about 10 years I would go home to a
football playing was raining
quite and close to my house had a
street boy , that’s right. more or less
of my age group maybe a
little older teen already he
was covering the rain and the cold
putting the shirt on the knee
sitting on the curb and I was near
house in the end a good deed but I
I sensed with that scene and took the
my shirt and went to deliver to him without
say nothing
he was amazed by that attitude
He kept his hand to catch more
before grabbing the shirt he turned to
me
and asked so you will be left without
he then touched me deeply
because that boy in that
street rain chill circumstance
helpless friends and family by
close it bothered me before
he accept a donation is that
probably part of a good effect
there in that condition and so I
I realize that today is courage a
Maybe the long-term process is not me.
It took me decades to finally
begin these forays that I have
I made my latest trend
right and I realize I actually accept
This is when people call me
brave and everything but I do not
I feel like this because I know that in the
I’m simply following a
intuition I’m following my
heart
when we leave our heart to
We do not exert a practice of
courage we exercise an act of
need we simply need
do what needs to be done for the
our own life and does is and accepting
these brave compliments of people
constantly asked if I do not have
afraid to go to these areas and everything else
I understand all this because I passed
by delicate situations situations
danger but the fear of going to install
in these environments was never greater than
my desire to be there rather than to
my desire to love and have a song
of bob dylan in a phrase of a song
it enough that I bring to my
life he speaks deceive you without deceit
Use when you have nothing at all.
You got nothing to lose so I tried.
I totally undressed who I was and what
that I had to leave the house and everyone
my furniture and started this
trajectory then when I have these
environments take my money to
My clothes are my cell phone.
Documents do not matter to me
none of this is of value to me of course
they brought much for my integrity
physics is like living
I’m not a kamikaze I take mine
care, time has realized the danger
before the period approaches me
of course it is not an exact science but
I also can not I started to
to feel in this walk that
nor does life itself belong to me
so I can not be afraid to put in
risk if I put you at risk.
It’s an act of love if I have to
lose there I know I miss
loving and out of these street experiences
Also on the streets, I have
experience of the interiors in farm
of the plantations and in the
Brazil, I’ve walked a little bit already.
also
and go there in these environments receive
life lessons of solidarity
awesome I’m going to count three
quickly so many stories I
I’ve lived another one of them I was
there doing on one of the farms people
beating cement is not
beating the cement was with the shovel and a
fellow in the backlands was in the
hoe the elite other people close by
and approached me and said quietly
that he wanted to teach me a prayer
secret or a protection prayer
He said so I do not want to teach you
about the action because you come from a
very dangerous city in rio de janeiro
and I wanted to protect you from afar
through this prayer I found that
so beautiful so this delivery
mixing a bit of spirituality
He’s bringing her a little to me.
just asked me not to share this
prayer to anyone because otherwise would
losing strength was not worth anything
so I’ve been insuring her no one
I know only one and another situation
another opportunity I was in another
farm say goodbye to all my
companions there’s work hoe
And I went and I was going to ride a ride.
the truck and the farm I was in was
in piauí it was in front of a
br then the br cross was on the other
side of the road signaling was already
there for half an hour in a truck and
a car was stopping and there came a
these friends that I had just
farewell and crossed the street approached
I took his wallet and took out the
only note he had in the wallet
He told me that he wanted to.
deliver a note of this value as well
low but it was a huge era of enormous
human value because he told me that
I wanted to deliver because I could pass
need on the road since traveling from
ride and he said he had already passed
much need in his life and that he
I had had helped much he wanted
do the same for me in that situation
on another occasion a situation
of pure beauty and beautiful purity was
when the present is the daughters of a
friend of yours
It’s with more dolls that I bought one.
supermarket the super simple dolls
I gave them to them and they were
our very happy in one of them in
ecstasy of joy
she turned to me and thanked me and
with the following sentence né
God bless you and God pay you
that touched me deeply is how
a child with that reality so
different from the child I was and can not
thank me for such a gift
simple with this snow magnitude and
Dear God, thank you and this
experience of the interiors so
plantation farms together
people, even the manual labor did not
convincing that with a simplicity
it is a way simplicity is a
decision and simplicity it can be
a solution to our personal life
for our professional life can be
a solution for the world also to
the relations of coexistence with
interpersonal relationships
but for us to live a life and
simplicity you have to give up
some things right?
Our pride is in relations of
Friendship and I think it’s mainly
of vanity not only physical vanity
slender decree and receive praise and
tanned for this and neither vanity
material ne
only to boast of goods and everything
more but mainly the vanity
because intellectual vanity
which brings us an illusory thirst for
social prestige
I think we need people.
recognize the greatness of doing
small and wanting to be anonymous is
not live a life in search of
recognition fame success not charge
living a life according to numbers
but let the numbers find us
I have tried in practice this is
very very difficult today I believe that
It’s easier to become a millionaire.
than to make me a humble man than me
make small
I think we need to look at each other.
out of the point of view of results
the things that we do in our
our lives
When I left for this trajectory, it’s
I never thought I did not even know what it is.
doing so I never thought in terms of
effectiveness of what you were doing
I’m sure that’s why.
I have lived so many moments infinite and
currently the result is not mine.
action criterion to do nothing in the
my life right?
after these experiences in the streets and
I began to re-evaluate the
same behaviors in my life and I started
to feel a deep shame of the
my past is the one I discovered
huge responsibility that I have
before my existence
this shame he is not
issue of money or property
materials exclusively but is a
question of perception of life is not
as I have for decades since the
I have always been sensitive to childhood.
these conditions of abandoned lives
I could for so long only worry
with my achievements with the
Brazilians with my relationships
exercising my ego centrism is that
combine in pride in my
aggression when I am annoyed
in my machismo and in my vanity
still this shame is much more
She does not paralyze me She does not bring me
guilt and depression
on the contrary she brings me strength she
she wants to live a life every
more at the service of those who need it most
I want to live a life that takes me away from
center of the universe and puts me through
Last I started talking here to
You that I wanted to accomplish this
I traveled on this trip, I want
end up saying that I’m still
On this trip and talk to you here.
does very well because it is a
possibility of a little reflection
more collective
these intimate experiences I have
lived and mainly that is a way
to repeat all this here to me high and
good sound and often these things
kept so long only inside me
and I repeat now it’s for myself I heard
that all these stories and all these
perceptions of life this brief
recent trajectory of my life she
message there is nothing new nothing right
a few millennia
this idea of love has not been propagated
throughout the world and has been practiced
centuries by millions of people
few of these people are well
famous but the vast majority million
are beautifully anonymous
and they live their lives.
So anonymity, I do not believe it’s
can we live for you
instrument of a greater love of love than
does not want anything in exchange for a love that
cry together who dreams together who wants to see
the other restored
I think the stance of love in our
she is not passive she is not
the politics
I think that the posture of love in our
lives it is revolutionary and everything that
the world calls utopia and romanticism
are in fact profound changes in the
most of the profound changes they
they are time consuming
they are silent and they are not
on the daily news.
people have so much difficulty
mobilization is and so little
matter how much wisdom there is in
words how much does the amount of
actions that are carried out what
really affects our lives our
environment is how much love you are if you live
is offered in this passage and for me
To say goodbye to you has a little more
I was not going to talk but I’m going to talk
I wanted to share is one of those
More responses of these responses
questions I was not doing
discover what talent is gift but what
quality is exercise
I’m not a good person to exercise.
kindness me whenever I can I
I’m not a caring person.
army solidarity i do not
I’m a safe man in the army.
control of my emotions and thus
wanting to say goodbye by exercising a
quality that I lack so much that neither is
so expensive I wanted to exercise my
humility and because I think that act of
altruism solidarity can not
to be convinced that
I ‘m a decent and honest good person
and such I ward off any exaltation of
me any intimate exaltation of me
same
so I ask that the applause of
nerd praxe nor when people
just said that they are directed
targeted
these people who live in these
abandoned and neglected by
we and themselves live people
crushed by our social structure
I put my hand in the trash to survive the
man with head in the open at night
cold and also the people who survive
of manual labor both in the field
How much in the city, right?
while here in this building and for
last I wanted to ask that these
applause including mine
directed to my parents that they
They live by my side every day.
although he died in front of me
they taught me what love is
they saved my life
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