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Nov 12, 2013
"Socrates showed us that thinking the truth is not enough. Truth demands to be lived." --Americ Azevedo
The Truth Demands To Be Lived
Among many other assignments, Americ Azevedo, philosopher, author and lecturer of peace studies, now leads a meditation class with 603 students in one of the largest lecture halls on the UC Berkeley campus. He has taught university classes in philosophy, religion, leadership, finance, business and information systems,and held the first podcast at UC Berkeley in 2005. He now co-teaches a class on inner-to-outer social change and focuses on building a more human world in this age of technology. It all began when he was bullied and called stupid as a child, and found a way to relate to his bullies and rid himself of the epithet. Read his story...
BE THE CHANGE
Think twice before you apply labels to yourself or other people even in your mind. Give them and yourself the benefit of the doubt!
