Category: Awareness
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Actions speak louder than words.
Read more: Actions speak louder than words.Gladiator tells the story of Maximus, a Roman general who is betrayed by Commodus, the son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. After his family is murdered, he is reduced to slavery. Sold into the life of a gladiator, Maximus’s experience as a general, his strength, and his leadership soon begin to shine through. Until the famous…
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Escape the Matrix: Break the Chains of Consumerism and Choose Change!
Read more: Escape the Matrix: Break the Chains of Consumerism and Choose Change!We can argue all day that The Matrix is just a movie. However, how is it that the message from it still feels relevant? I watched the film as a teenager, around 14 years old. Twenty-five years later, the society we live in is driven by money-hungry businesses and increasingly aggressive marketing that exploits human…
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Overcome your past
Read more: Overcome your pastCecil is the main character of Final Fantasy 4 and we begin the game with him as a Dark Knight, who can make use of skills and attacks using the power of Darkness. He is a loyal knight to his king, but some tragic events, involving him involuntarily ravaging a whole harmless small town, makes…
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Don’t let others pull you down : believe in yourself
Read more: Don’t let others pull you down : believe in yourselfTrinity is running for her life as agents are after her and they end up jumping from roof to roof of buildings. At one point, they do a jump so big that the one of the cops chasing her says “It’s impossible” in an iconic dramatic way. When we see, for the first time in…
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Everyone Falls the First Time
Read more: Everyone Falls the First TimeWhen Neo first wakes up in the real world, Morpheus believes he has found the One. Neo undergoes a short training session and is loaded into a program to test his awareness: the jump test. He fails miserably, and Cypher, a member of Morpheus’s crew, remarks, “Everyone falls the first time,” while the others grow…
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It’s by combining our forces that we will able to reshape the future of humanity
Read more: It’s by combining our forces that we will able to reshape the future of humanityGoku is certainly one of the strongest characters ever created in a manga. He is strong, can fly and can even teleport to other universes instantaneously. But on a few difficult encounters, he still asks for help to create a powerful move called the Genkidama, that gets stronger when more people lend some of their…
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Awakening Through Music: Rage Against The Machine, The Matrix, and Our Responsibility
Read more: Awakening Through Music: Rage Against The Machine, The Matrix, and Our ResponsibilityI’ll be honest with you, I believe I may have never heard or begun to appreciate this band if it weren’t for one of my favorite movies, The Matrix by the Wachowskis. The song plays at the perfect moment, right at the end of the movie when Neo, having become the One, hangs up the…
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If we act, a better future isn’t a dream
Read more: If we act, a better future isn’t a dream“Imagine all the peopleSharing all the worldYou may say I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope someday you’ll join usAnd the world will live as one”— John Lennon, Imagine As long as we strive to be role models for our family, friends, and society, a better future is not just a dream. Our…
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How bad habits keep us from awareness
Read more: How bad habits keep us from awarenessNeo just had his computer hacked by Trinity and isn’t sure if it’s real or not, if he is just still in a dream or if he is back to reality. Neo is doing some underground business and one of his clients suggests he needs to unplug. How are we spending our time? When asked…
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Let’s take control of our life
Read more: Let’s take control of our lifeKeanu Reeves plays a character named Thomas Anderson, who works for a computer company. While he appears to live a “perfectly standard” life—he pays his taxes, helps the landlady take out the garbage—he can’t shake the feeling that something is missing. A Life on Autopilot Have you ever felt like your life was on autopilot?…