The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of valuing quality of life and community over material consumption and greed.
Evo Morales highlights a cultural perspective from the Andes that prioritizes 'living well' rather than striving for more possessions or wealth at the expense of others and the environment. This perspective invites a reevaluation of modern values that often prioritize individual success and consumerism over communal well-being and sustainability.
In practice
In a social media post advocating for sustainable living.
Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.
It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.
Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.
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