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(Portuguese): The enchanting and[br]hospitable capital of Minas Gerais.

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Hello.

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So, the first thing that[br]I wanted to say is

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as I am speaking about my story

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you really want to be listening

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not for the story of Christopher Howe.

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Because my story isn't unique to me.

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It's the story of many people,

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the people that I've encountered[br]along my travels, along my journeys

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but it's a universal story.

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It' s a story about all of us.

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It' s a story about what's possible

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for all of us when we're willing[br]to take a great risk,

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when we're willing to step outside[br]of our comfort zone,

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outside of what we already know

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into what is unknown, into a place[br]that might not be safe

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for the benefit of other people.

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So this is the story of my life[br]for the past few years.

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I'll begin because like[br]somebody said earlier

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these stories of our lives don't really[br]have a beginning or an end

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but we need some place to start.

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So, I'll start when I was living [br]in Germany back in 2004

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and I had a great life, I was [br]a high school teacher, in Germany,

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and at the same time[br]there were certain things

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going on in my life that were not so good.

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I was in the middle of a divorce,

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I had two children that I loved dearly.

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But I was in a depressed place.

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And I had recently graduated[br]from university,

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I have a degree in History

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and another degree in Biology.

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And I was depressed in a way because

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during school I realized[br]that things like the Bible

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and the sacred texts were written by man

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and I thought that somehow God[br]wasn't involved in the process.

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And I became disillusioned with religion

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with spirituality for a few years.

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Until I found it again when [br]I was living in Germany,

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a friend introduced me to[br]a book by Paulo Coelho,

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who many of you know,[br]who wrote the book "The Alchemist".

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And this book reminded me[br]of something inside of myself,

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something that I had forgotten,

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something that was part of who I am,

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about being on the spiritual path.

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So, I remembered my deep love

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when I was in college[br]for the country of Ethiopia.

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And how much I wanted to go there

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since I was seventeen years old.

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And after reading the "The Alchemist",

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I decided to buy a plane ticket to Ethiopia.

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Although it's too expensive.

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I didn't have enough money to get there[br]so I flew instead to Kenya.

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And on my way to Ethiopia[br]through Kenya,

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I met two film producers[br]on a very remote island

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near the coast of Somalia.

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And these film producers,

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they're special film producers indeed,

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they produced the movies[br]"American Psycho" and "Virgin Suicides",

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I don't know if you guys have seen [br]these movies here.

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But they took me into their house.

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And I started working for them[br]as a writer

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developing the script for[br]a Paulo Coelho adaptation

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called "Veronica Decides to Die".

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So it's very interesting, one of the first[br]lessons that I've learned

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was when we take these[br]great leaps of faith

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to go on our journeys to go[br]towards our destiny,

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how all the right people arrive[br]just at the right times

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when we need them.

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So I met these people[br]right in this moment

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and I lived with them for about[br]two months in Africa

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and they went back[br]to Los Angeles

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and I continued on my way[br]to Ethiopia where I didn't

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necessarily find what it was[br]that I was looking for.

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I've gone into this great journey[br]to this other country

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to go some place else,[br]and I didn't find it.

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I'm not quite sure what it was[br]that I was looking for in that moment

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but it wasn't there.

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So I ended up back in Germany

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and my friends from Kenya,[br]the film producers,

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called me and asked me to come

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finishing developing[br]the script for them

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in Los Angeles,[br]"Veronica Decides to Die".

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So I flew out to Los Angeles[br]and we finished the script

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they went back to Africa and I stayed[br]for four months

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in a beautiful home,[br]right on the Venice Beach,

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in a house designed by Frank Gehry,[br]it was beautiful.

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They came back and their manager quit,

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and I stepped right into his position

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and I started managing film companies,

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something that I'd never done before,[br]I had no idea how to do.

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And I've much respect[br]for all the people producing

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this event because I know[br]what goes into it.

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They put me into a very nice house[br]in the Los Angeles hills

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and where I lived for the next year.

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My children came to live with me as well

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and at some point during that time

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I had my children go back[br]to live with their mom.

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They were very young and I thought[br]they needed to be with her.

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So they went to live with their mother

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and about a month later I was in the[br]mountains above Los Angeles

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when a very strange thing happened.

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I was in the middle of a ceremony,[br]and as part of the ceremony

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there's a point for meditation.

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It was very zen like in this[br]meditation where

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you clear the mind of all your thoughts.

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And the best way to do that

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is by just allowing whatever[br]is there to be.

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And not to add meaning[br]to the thoughts that come

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into your mind, alright?

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To get to this place of silence

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and of simple being and presence.

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And as I was there inside of the ceremony,

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in the middle of this meditation,

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I went into a visionary state.

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This might sound crazy,[br]it sounds crazy to me.

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But the case was I went into[br]this visionary state

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where I saw myself walking[br]from Los Angeles,

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first through the deserts[br]of Northern Mexico,

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just walking by myself.

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Simply with time alone[br]and with time with God.

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In the next scene I saw[br]myself walking through

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the mountains of the[br]Sierra Madre in Mexico,

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being helped by people along the way.

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And I realized as I was walking that I was

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in the middle of this vision[br]and that I shouldn't

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be having it, that I should[br]somehow stop it,

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it was crazy, it was nuts[br]there was no way

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I was going to be walking through Mexico.

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So I stopped it and I returned[br]back to the place

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where I was and I went back[br]into my meditation

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and as soon as I did that[br]I was transported

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back into this vision where again[br]I was walking

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through the mountains of Mexico,

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through Guatemala,[br]through the forest of Panama,

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through Colombia, Ecuador,[br]through Peru ending up

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eventually in this place in the middle[br]of the Amazon forest.

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And as I going through[br]this journey in my vision,

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I kept cutting it off.

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Saying: "No, this is crazy,

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I'm not going to do this,[br]this is nuts", right?

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Then I decided at some point[br]that I was going to

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just allow this vision to be,[br]just allow it to have that.

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Before I came into the ceremony,

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I prayed, I was looking for something[br]to set me back on my spiritual path.

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And I asked God just to be of service.

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And I realized during this vision,[br]that this vision was the answer

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to my prayer to be of service.

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I wasn't quite sure how yet.

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I took it on that this was something[br]that was actually possible, right?

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And this is something that you guys[br]want to hear, right?

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When we have an idea for a project,

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when we have an idea for a place[br]in our communities,

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in our lives when[br]we can make a difference,

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oftentimes, the first thing[br]that comes to us

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are the borders, the blocks, the barriers,

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"Oh, I can't do that, that's not me.

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Maybe I'm not a scientist,

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or maybe I'm not a film maker,[br]maybe I'm not this or that".

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We put all these borders[br]and limitations on what it is

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that we can do, none of them[br]are true, ok?

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Who you are is that anything is[br]possible in your life

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and you can make a big difference.

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Just one person, especially[br]when it's in contribution

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to the world around you and[br]that's the metaphor

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for what it was that I was about to do.

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So the first step after taking it on,

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and saying that this[br]is indeed possible,

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and ok I'll look at this,

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is that I had to tell people about it.

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I had to make a verbal declaration

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that I was walking to Brazil.

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So I had to tell my bosses,[br]I had to tell my mom,

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I had to tell my family[br]that I'm actually leaving

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this mansion that I lived in Los Angeles

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and I'm going to live[br]like a vagabond.

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On the road.

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And didn't even know[br]how I was going to do it.

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I had no plan, no plan, none.

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Just that I was doing it.

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So for the next two weeks[br]I was very excited,

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telling people about this[br]new possibility

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that was available for me.

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Something that was so crazy[br]that I couldn't have sat down and thought:

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"This is what I'm going to do,[br]this makes a lot of sense", right?

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It made no sense at all and that[br]was kind of the beauty of it.

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Two weeks later there was[br]another ceremony

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and I went to the ceremony[br]praying, asking for guidance

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because I had no idea[br]what I was doing.

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And again I saw another vision,

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the second of this series,

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where, again this is going to sound crazy,

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but I saw a vision of Mary in the sky

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over the sea of Cortez.

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And she didn't say anything to me.

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But only her hands were like this.

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And I saw myself handing out[br]blank pieces of paper

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to the people that I met on the road.

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Who wrote down,[br]whatever they wanted to write.

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They wrote down prayers,[br]to complete their past.

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It was a perfect moment[br]with a perfect stranger,

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someone who they didn't know

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and with whom they didn't have to pretend.

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And they could just be[br]totally honest with.

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And that they can finish the past

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so that they can see into the future

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this expanded horizon where[br]there were no limits.

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They weren't dragging a limited past[br]based on what they know.

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Maybe those experiences were good,[br]maybe they weren't,

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but if we're still just going based[br]in what it is that we know

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we're just going to keep creating more[br]of that into the future,

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So if you can clear your past,[br]even if it's just momentarily,

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and look fresh into the horizon,[br]without limitations,

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and see what's possible there and again,

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outside of fear or trying to make it,[br]or just survival.

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You know, survival is a game[br]that we all loose, right?

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So ultimately, we're all[br]going to loose it.

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And if you can get over your[br]fear of death,

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most other things like public speaking[br]for example,

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that most people are very afraid of,[br]myself included,

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these are irrational fears

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and it's very easy and very simple

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to take a step out[br]and just to go through it.

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You know, courage is the[br]art of having fear

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but doing it anyway, alright?

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So you're going to have all these fears,[br]all these blocks

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about why you can't do the things[br]that you want to do

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and do it anyway, be who you are[br]in contribution to the people

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around you and to your communities.

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So, once I said yes to this project,

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everything started lining up perfectly.

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I thought again that:[br]"Ok, I can make it

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I'm going to do this on my own."

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But of course that doesn't work.

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And it's no fun to like make it like:

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"I'm going to do this. I'm going to force[br]my way through the Amazon forest.

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To Brazil."

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That just doesn't happen.

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But naturally, once I declared this,[br]all the pieces started

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aligning themselves perfectly,

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collaborating towards my reaching my goal[br]deep in the Amazon.

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So, soon after I met a filmmaker,[br]his name was Mikki Willis,

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from Elevate Films, who decided to promote[br]my project through a documentary

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where the plan was we were going to raise

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10 thousand dollars that would[br]fund my trip.

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It was great, it was a platform[br]kind of like this.

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And I was able to speak my project

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and the problem was[br]we only made 800 dollars.

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(Laughter)

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So I didn't know how I was going to do it.

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And yet, I did it anyway.

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So I'm very grateful for Mikki Willis

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and for Elevate Films for giving me[br]the mouthpiece because this is

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the most important thing.

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You have to share what you're going to do

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and then you have to do it, right?

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So it does no good to have an idea sitting

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up here if you're not sharing it

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which is one of the reasons[br]why I love TED,

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because we're sharing these ideas.

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But also you have to take a step.

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What is it than you can today

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to turn these dreams,[br]these visions into reality?

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So I want to really encourage[br]all of you to be able to do.

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So my project what it symbolized in part

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was the possibility of people getting clear.

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Of people removing[br]the confines of the past

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and be able to step into a future

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that was limitless and free.

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And to able to see through[br]this person walking

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this gringo that if he can walk[br]from Los Angeles to Brazil

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what else is possible for me[br]in my life? Right?

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Like, anything is possible.

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So of course the journey is froth,

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is filled with temptations,[br]with breakdowns,

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anytime we're on the road of life

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for sure we're going to have flat tires,

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the car is going to break down,

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we're going to feel sick.

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A great mentor of mine[br]once said,

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and I don't know if the joke[br]will carry here in Brazil

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but, sometimes, you just don't feel[br]like doing something,

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you said you were[br]going to do it,

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but you just don't feel like it right?

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Well, in California we have a lot[br]of Mexican food or Tex Mex food.

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And we have this thing[br]called a burrito.

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Which, sometimes they're[br]not always so good, right?

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And he said something once,

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"You know, my feelings can change[br]with a bad burrito." Right?

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Am I really going to let this stop,[br]what it is that I'm upt to in life, right?

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So when you're feeling scared[br]or feeling these things,

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continue to be up to it,[br]no matter what.

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That's the idea, right?

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So, also this is the art of[br]writing down your prayers.

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Or write whatever it was, even atheists[br]took advantage of this project

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when we were writing down stuff, right?

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It was a cathartic opportunity for it.

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The idea is that when you give your word

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this is your promise, your promessa, right?

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And the art of catholic pilgrimage.

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You give your word to something

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and then you do it, right?

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But it's not in the realm[br]of right or wrong,

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or good or bad or evil[br]or anything like this, ok?

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So Aristotle was the first person[br]who used the term "Harmatia"

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which is where in the New Testament[br]we have the idea for sin.

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It's when you have a bow and arrow,

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and you have a target,

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and you shoot the arrow[br]for this target, right?

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But you miss the mark.

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And there's no morality involved[br]in this at all, right?

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We had a promise and we didn't[br]keep our promise.

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We had a promise to our wives,[br]to our children, to our communities.

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And somewhere along the way[br]for whatever reasons,

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because the very fact that[br]we are on the road,

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we had a breakdown and we[br]did not keep our promise.

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So the idea is, when we break our word,

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when we break our promise,

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to restore our promise,[br]to restore our word

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literally by speaking it,[br]or by writing it down,

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so that we can come complete[br]with the past

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and then make a new promise, right?

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So there were a few places where[br]I didn't keep my word in this walk:

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I didn't walk between Panama[br]and Colombia, for example,

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because the police prevented me[br]from doing it, ok?

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But there were other places where[br]there were incredible triumphs.

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Walking for 30 days through the Amazon

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without any maps or compass,[br]I was lots ten times.

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Just on rivers and just kind of[br]feeling where I was.

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It was an incredible project.

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So, I would like to bring your attention[br]to my website:

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iamwalking.org

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Where you can go and actually[br]write down your own prayers

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to clear your own past in a way[br]that's totally anonymous and safe

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and also declare[br]your new possibilities in life.

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Thank you so much for your time.[br](Applause)