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.
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.
If you correct your hidden deeds subsequently, Allaah will correct your outward deeds.
Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.
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