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A naive dream is extremely powerful.
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I'd say that the only trauma I've suffered was existential.
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Existential
Trauma
Suffered
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Sometimes experience is an obstacle because you cast your future based on your past experience.
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I went through big things at too young of an age, but, naturally, when you're young you're also adventurous.
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Adventurous
Big Things
Naturally
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I was young, out of the military service in Israel. I was looking for a big adventure, and I was searching for it.
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Adventure
Military Service
Searching
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I wanted to go to the extreme in the sense of places that were not explored and meeting people, tribes. I wanted to have an adventure.
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Adventure
Tribes
Extreme
Explored
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I'm not an expert on India-Pakistan relations, but, Pakistan is big enough without Kashmir and India too is big enough without Kashmir.
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Enough
India
Pakistan
Big Enough
Expert
Relations
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Survival is very powerful. All your faculties want to cling to life. We're not tested usually, luckily, but when we are, we become superheroes.
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Survival
Tested
Life Your Want
Cling
Faculties
Luckily
Superheroes
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At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk.
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Ants
Tree
Aching
Distract
Shook
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Everyone at Arclight has been very supportive, professional, and warm, and working with producers Mike Gabrowy and Gary Hamilton has been a wonderful experience.
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Gary
Mike
Supportive
Warm
Wonderful Experience
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I went to South America with the idea that I would be an explorer, that I'd find lost tribes, become one of them, marry the chief's daughter and find riches of gold.
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Daughter
Gold
Riches
South America
Tribes
Chief
Explorer
Marry
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Did I pray for death? I did one time. I wanted to die so badly. And I didn't want to die. I wanted to rest, you know. And I knew the only rest I would find is in death.
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One Time
Pray
Badly
Pray For
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Every time I found an egg to eat, or when I survived a storm in which trees were collapsing all around me, I felt that it was Providence. I don't need to believe - I know.
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Providence
Storm
Time Believe Me
Collapsing
Egg
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Living in Israel is similar to living in an island. It's a very small and isolated place. It's a very strong place in terms of the culture and the conditioning that you go through.
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Conditioning
Island
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Surviving is not something you need to learn. You don't need to learn survival skills; you have them already. That's why we're here, all of us, because it's a game of survival anyway.
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Survival
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I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don't ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.
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Death
Left
Significance
Simple Person
Touching
Most
Things
Person
Now
Very
Much
Never
Ascribe
Became
Feeling
Precious
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I wanted to be like the heroes of the books I read. That's why I wanted to go to the jungle. I wasn't interested in danger from the adrenaline aspect, I was more interested in the romance.
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Adrenaline
Danger
Jungle
Romance
Heroes
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You eat anything when you need energy to survive and there's nothing in your body, when you are becoming just bones and tissues and muscles and I don't wish those circumstances on anybody.
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Bones
Muscles
Your Body Energy
To Survive
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I definitely had some heated but extremely productive chats with screenwriter Justin Monjo, but while it's my story, it's their movie, so I have to allow for compression and poetic license.
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Compression
Justin
License
Poetic
Heated
Screenwriter
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When you lose everything, then you have something. It's exactly the opposite because everything that you have, it's not really yours. What is yours, you don't need to earn. It's yours by right.
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Opposite
Earn
Exactly
Yours
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I have discovered that inner search by far is the most uncharted domain and it needs great courage and determination to cut through the dense vegetation of the mind so to speak before arriving at the core.
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Arriving
Dense
Determination
Domain
Uncharted
Vegetation
Inner
Search
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I think the main parenting or education you do for your children is by way of being, and not by way of having guidelines or some agenda. I think that life itself is constantly bringing learning opportunities.
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Parenting
Guidelines
Life Education Learning
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The corporate sector in my view is the most important since it is actively involved in the shaping of our life on the planet. The corporate world has the power and the means to influence politics and public trends.
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Corporate
Corporate World
Influence
Involved
Actively
Planet
Sector
Shaping
View
The Most Important
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For two days I had the company of a girl. She appeared next to me. It was no less of a miracle if it was my imagination which had summoned her up, because it happened at the very moment I had broken down and given up.
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Miracle
Appeared
Summoned
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I had no lasting physical trauma nor a psychological one. Yet, it was hard to return to the old path. I found myself asking big questions: Why was my life spared? What is my purpose here? And it led me to a life of inquiry.
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Big Questions
Inquiry
Lasting
Path
Psychological
Purpose
Return
Trauma
Life Myself Me
Life Myself Path
Questions
Led
Nor
Physical
Spared
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I have returned to the Amazon to thank the people that were involved in my rescue and upon meeting them I realised that their life is in danger. They have asked for my help on a community-based initiation of a tourism project.
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Danger
Initiation
Realised
Rescue
Tourism
Life People Help
Community-Based
Returned
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You don't need too much to have an agenda of how to father. You just have to be a good person. The interactions at home between you and your spouse and the way you deal with your kids in certain situations, that's what they take.
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Good Person
Spouse
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My Uncle Nissim studied Kabbalah. Just before he died, he gave this tiny book, its pages yellow with age. He said it had special powers. I had a feeling that the book helped to keep me safe. My daughter is called Nissim after him.
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Pages
Tiny
Yellow
Powers
Uncle
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If you find your freedom, if you find something that cannot be taken from you, then you're free. If your freedom depends on what you have, or you position, or your security, or anything that is just passing, because those are just waves of things.
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Passing
Your Freedom
Waves
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So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge.
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Discover
Stripped
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It was like a dream come true for me. When you write the book, it's still intimate. It might have been a best-seller but it's still my story, as I wrote it. The moment we or they make a movie, it's not my story anymore. There's a lot of letting go involved in the process.
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Intimate
Letting Go
Best-Seller
Letting
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As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a timely story for a new emerging era.
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Adventure
Heart
Stories
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As to the Amazon itself, the transition from conservation to sustainable development was a huge awakening since conservation was a western concept and strategy to encourage the developing world to protect biodiversity resources for the sake of future generations and the wellbeing of the planet.
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Awakening
Biodiversity
Conservation
Developing
Generations
Sake
Strategy
Sustainable Development
Transition
Wellbeing
Developing World
Sustainable
Encourage
Future Generations
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I think we suffer from certain alienation. We live on this planet, but we somehow have an idea that we're elevated from it, that we're not nature. We're a creature that manages nature and is superior and does whatever it wants. That creates a separation between humanity and the rest of the planet.
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Alienation
Separation
Creates
Elevated
Suffer
Superior
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I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity.
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Yes, I'm a fan, and 'The Lost City of Z' has been my inspiration. Percy Fawcett was one of my heroes, and I loved the book and the film. I was lost in the same area that Fawcett had explored, and I can identify with his sense of passion and obsession, and I definitely see the romance in searching for lost treasure.
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Book
Film
Inspiration
Lost
Obsession
Passion
Romance
Treasure
Heroes
Area
Fan
Loved
Definitely
Explored
Identify
Searching
Yes
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Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all write our own autobiography, we are the authors of our life story. Realising that, write a good story with your life and make sure to write yourself as the protagonist. Be the hero of your journey.
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Journey
Good
Autobiography
Despite
Good Story
Hero
Life Story
Natural
Realisation
Realising
Self
Wake Up
Yourself
Life Good Journey
Sure
Make
Life Good Hero
Authors
Own
Write
Doubts
Insecurities
Up
Protagonist
Story
Wake
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May you find the courage to walk your own path. May you dare to venture into the uncharted domains of your own heart. Here is my advice to you, the adventurers - fear will show you the way; walk steadily toward it, for otherwise you will always be running. Have trust & faith to guide you like a torch piercing the darkness. Do not believe & do not deny, but find out for yourself - for there is no truth but the one you have earned in your own experience.
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Running
Believe
Heart
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