By excess of scruples, many people fail to do what they can. To respect to some conventions, to preserve an established image and some pre-built schemes, many people renounce their originality and accept lives of paper, with souls of plastic, ready to be consumed or replaced, like leaves in the wind.
Creativity is not a prerogative of geniuses: it is an inseparable attribute of human condition. If today you do not live what you feel to be, you cause yourself the greatest of disgraces: the death of your own soul, vitality and reason to live.
Follow your inner voices, in what they whisper about happiness, love and ideal. Without the conquest of the inner universe, there can never be any external conquest truly satisfying and lasting.
Temistocles.
(Text received by the medium Benjamin Teixeira, on March 26, 2001.)