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Benson Venegas: I am inspired by the belief that communities around the world are the most important or vital driven force for sustainable development in the world. And that solutions come through local communities. That there are communities around the world that shows that it's possible at the same time to improve the quality of their life, they're also protecting their environment. So I think it really move me and inspire me that these communities that really are doing things in the ground, and every day base, are making these decisions that are really creating the possibilities for us to really conserve our biodiversity and also to solve some of the most and immediate problems of poverty around the world. That they can be inspired to create a movement at the global level to solve some of these key problems around the world. So, communities at the heart, should be at the heart of every policy-making process, because we need to take the voices of the communities at the policy-making level, for them to really help or give the politician the best elements for - to make the best decision that can create better conditions or a better situation in the world.

by Benson Venegas

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Bill Joy: What moves me is the opportunity to work with people who have passion, want to make change and positive contribution in the world. And I have a job now where I’m working with innovators trying to attack the problems, environmental problems in the world with green technology. And so every day I have the great pleasure of meeting people who are excited and passionate about their new ideas. Not all the new ideas are right. People can get passionate about things and be confused about them. But we meet an enormous number of people who have almost unbounded passion that they can go and attack one of these problems. They can go attack the problem of CO2 in the world. They can go attack the problem of water, not having enough clean water. They can find new ways of getting solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy. And to get a chance to meet and work with people who have this kind of great and almost unbounded passion to go and make the world a better place is a pleasure for me every day of my life.

by Bill Joy

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Bora Cosic: Schopenhauer found out what moves a human as individual in the nature, accordingly we can’t achieve anything without own will. Personally I’m moved by my every day work, by pleasant ambit in which I live, health that’s still serving me, and the women with which I live together.

by Bora Cosic

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Brian J. Weller: Okay, what moves me? This event is very moving. The sounds of babies of all species always brings a tear to my eye; the seasons. I think taking each other lightly. What moves me? Monty Python’s Flying Circus, that moves me. Acts of courage by oppressed people, and I think when I feel the pain and suffering of other people that is absolutely moving. What else moves me? Oh, meditating every day. I love to spend time in silence every day and Jay Dudove; “splashing into the silence of pure being,” that’s just incredible. I love that. I think probably most of all is realizing how ordinary I am.

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Constantin von Barloewen: [...] against the technical homogenization, the universal forming of all areas of life, never mind whether they are aesthetic or political. As an anthropologist, I try hard to contribute something to a world, which has an humane face as the world of pragmatic politics, as a world of a imperativ of the economy or a pure primate of strategic game of power. I try hard to work for a truthful inter- and intrareligious dialogue as a condition for human surviving at the beginning of the 21st Century, because I believe that culture in a holistic sense combines all areas of human life. Culture is not a part of economy, but economic is a part of culture, the same goes for politics. If there is no more superordinate power for the culture, the life will have no sense anymore and will be de-humanized. As an anthropologist I try to carry out around a small contribution into the world, in which I was born and soon will leave again. Life for me is a gift.

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Cornel West: Well, there are a number of things that moves me, but I guess the essential thing that moves me is to see with my very own eyes people who muster the courage to love, to be compassionate, not just with their families but with those across town, those across national boundaries, those across continental boundaries. To actually see concrete acts of sweetness, kindness, loveliness. To see people who are willing to take risk and sacrifice. To see communities of hope that were once deeply, deeply dragged down by despair. And, probably more than anything else, to see young children whose eyes sparkle and whose pupils shout for joy, like my own beloved daughter’s [inaudible] when she sees me and her beloved mother [inaudible]. It's a deep, deep joy that goes beyond any pleasure that makes one glad to be alive.

by Cornel West

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Donato Bayu Bay Bumacas: Personally I am being moved because of my strong belief to God and my pro-people service orientation, which means I have a strong committed service orientation; and for me this moves me actually. This is my principle. My principle moves me, and it affects my movement; it affects my work. I always do things to serve my people. Especially local and indigenous communities are marginalized in terms of development, most of them it only twice a day. And so, my strong and committed service orientation moves me to engage myself in developmental for the service of my people in Kalinga; and hopefully if given the chance to serve in a wider scope, I would love to.

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Dritëro Kasapi: I am moved by a life saved. I am moved by discovering new things. I am moved by people that dare make a change. I am moved by a conflict resolved. I am moved by forgiveness. I think it’s one of the hardest things to do and I think those that can do that are special--that moves me. I am moved by a person admitting a mistake. I am moved by a returning of a lost son.

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Eliane Potiguara: What moves me in a good way is to be able to observe the good feelings, observe human inner beauty, what they have of most graceful, which is the truth. What this human being has to express as something to contribute to society. What moves me is the beauty of being – it’s not the physical beauty – it’s the inner beauty, what our insides have to say as humans. But what moves me in the evil is the lack of truth. When someone lies that makes me irritated, angry, troubled and I really don’t like it. And I also don’t like competition, competition leads to war. I don’t like any kind of competition. I like to feel in a space where we can be equal people, where we can share our experiences and ideas, do you know? I like a peaceful, calm, tranquil ambiance; I don’t like wars or confusions. I esteem love, peace, spirituality and tranquility – all this inserted in the way we teach our children.

by Eliane Potiguara

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Eliot Weinberger: Well, I essentially come from the world of poetry and I would say that most of what I know has come in a way out of poetry, of tracking down the sources of poems, tracking down the sort of context from which an individual poem comes from. I would say much of my travels in the world has come – was first inspired by reading poetry of or about that place. So, it’s sort of curious that the – what is considered the most rarefied of human expressions has for me been the source of a great deal of concrete information, and poetry is still something that I read everyday in my life.

by Eliot Weinberger

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Elisabet Sahtouris: What moves me in a very literal sense are my mitochondria. Those are little organelles within my cells that actually generate energy from the food I eat and the air I breathe. So without them I couldn’t lift a finger and there can be thousands in every single cell that I’m made up of. So I’m very technically on a physical level moved by my mitochondria. I would also say that I’m moved by a great passion for life. I’m a cosmic snoop, I’m curious about everything. I want to know how everything works. And that motivates me. I’m like an explorer of life that keeps looking things from very different angles in the world. I’ve lived in different cultures. I’ve hung out with very different kinds of people. I’ve seen from as many perspectives of religion, of science, of artists, all of those things have given me more information about life. I talk to children, I talk to old people, I just keep learning and I’m so enthusiastic about learning more and more and loving to share the information that I learn by writing and lecturing and making slide shows and things that I’m having a wonderful time. And I will keep doing that. Great to be here with all of you today. And for all the days that you’ll be watching these videos. And I hope you too will be enthused and excited and moved by what we’re all saying and have great conversations yourselves.

by Elisabet Sahtouris

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Ervin Laszlo: Many things. Above all the challenge of trying to understand and trying to make a contribution to my family, to my society, even to humanity. That’s quite enough.

by Ervin Laszlo

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Esther Mwaura-Muiru: When I see that people have the ability and they demonstrate the ability to relate and work together towards a common, positive vision, to improve the welfare of every other being around us, and they can work together across ethnicity, they can work together across race, across age, across the wealth divide, I think that moves me. And, having been privileged to work and travel across many countries and talk to people and meet people who sincerely are committed to serve the world in a genuine way and offer their own wealth, their own resources, their own knowledge, not to amass their own individual wealth, to make a difference in the lives of the people that they are actually supposed to improve, that moves me a lot. And that tells me that – that we still do have hope in the world, that out there, there are genuine people. I have met people in developed country, I’ve met women in America who could have had opportunities to be part of the superpower leaders of this world, and they have decided to play a different course. And the role that they play is to ensure the voices of those ones who are not there and do not have the ability and opportunity are there. And I think this is what moves me, that there still exist some people out there that [audio ends]

by Esther Mwaura-Muiru

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Fernando Solanas: I am moved by many things. I am moved by the wish for justice, by a feeling of social responsibility, personally, I am moved by the necessity to bear witness, to make a useful contribution, I am also moved by the joy I find in being able to make a contribution, by helping those that come after me, by being able to help my community and my country at this moment of its history.

by Fernando Solanas

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Fred Matser: First of all, the sheer realization that I live. The other thing is that when I look in the eyes of a baby and you may recognize that sometimes when you see a baby in a stroller or in a bed, when it's just a few days old or few weeks old, it can look with enormous wonderment into your eyes. It gives me a kind of feeling that I hardly can identify with words. But, it gives me a feeling like a portal to another dimension that sets a certain notion in motion that is quite emotionally. On another level, what moves me is of course the divine presence of God in all of existence. And in that sense, I feel moved and sometimes I feel grateful and sometimes moved by the fact that I am allowed to live here amongst so many wonderful, wonderful people and other forms of creation.

by Fred Matser