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.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress.
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, _x000D_ harmony with things as they happen.
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