Poetry - Awakening Beyond Survival

Life and the right to life are a gap disguised by political justifications of ambition or corruption, which are merely a reflection of that same gap. How much sensitivity do we lack to understand that we are demanding what we ourselves do not deliver? The infinite ability to be conscious of our processes of evolution brings us closer to the eternal grace we may reach by knowing contentment, in this or in another understanding. We are here to be better than what we do not yet know we were designed to be.

I have come to understand that the process of existence is precisely to deeply consolidate those who are willing to serve, in order to awaken those who are still asleep, fighting for endless desires. Here, on the path of wind and storm, the AYELE project taught me that we can remain awake to remember so much agitation and injustice. We are still here, witnessing this gap and absorbing cruelty as a human reference.

Recognizing that we are disproportionately alive, and that fighting for evolution is the second step after managing to be reborn. Survival encompasses countless aspects, which we will only touch on superficially as this path unfolds. This was simply an outpouring from a very difficult moment in my life. We can never fully contextualize something concrete within this pattern; there is a collective interpretation, and at the same time a lack of perception and specific care.

Every overload and demand of pain was placed disproportionately and prematurely upon a limited ability to sustain oneself. In October 2025, I had an immersive experience in the reality of the streets of São Paulo, and on a Sunday morning I interviewed a homeless woman named Julia, the mother of a two-year-old child who walked the streets under the sun asking for help to support her home and her daughter. Julia told me she cannot find work because “there are people who only accept résumés with a ‘good sheet’.”

Deep respect to all who, with immense strength, managed to cross that thin line between survival and fulfillment. But even more compassion and empathy for those who remain on one side of it (which is neither right nor left)—it is human.

Above all, we have parameters of need that are also the very stimuli we fight for in order to achieve our dreams. But would we have the same motivation to pursue the same dreams without the structure of survival? How inspiring would it be to wake up early every day and dress for a meeting if you had no clothes? And in what role would you submit a résumé without access to education or the means to build professional positioning? What job could you get, and how could you materialize all your projects? Without a “good sheet” résumé, would you have access to everything your “luck” has provided you?

Who was there? Who was this child? If I feed violence or allow myself to be fed by it, the world will be nothing but violence. Our mission is to raise the white flag between heaven and the hell that exists within the mind and emotions of each person.

I dedicate this text to my daughter, Thalita Bastos Coletto, who granted me the grace of rebirth on July 28, 2014, and to my Vipassana teacher, S. N. Goenka, who taught me everything.