Brilliant ad campaign by JWT for Ford Motor Company Brasil and Conservação Internacional “aiming at encouraging and recognizing projects on the protection of nature and biodiversity.”

by JWT
Take a look at JWT’s site as well. (i.e. PLAY with it.) I love the way it works!

via Eugene at MyModernMet 

And that was my moment of awareness: that woman across the court who did not know me, and whom I did not know, was a person. She had thoughts of her own. She was. Our lives would never touch. I would never know her name. And yet it was she who revealed to me my first glimpse of personhood.

- Madeleine L’Engle

via Echo-location
(where you can read this snippet in greater context.)

When Weisberg looks out at the world or when Roger Horchow sits next to you on an airplane, they don’t see the same world that the rest of us see. They see possibility, and while most of us are busily choosing whom we would like to know, and rejecting the people who don’t look right or live out near the airport, or whom we haven’t seen in sixty-five years, Lois and Roger like them all.

The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
53

Side effects may include: grinning til it hurts, joyous tears and a happy swelling heart… Or just joy. Which totally works too.

The most impressive thing about this particular flashmob? No instruments were used. The “human orchestra” mimics the sound of trumpets, violins, and drums, among other instruments.

The crowd, made up of more than 500 actors, dressed up as taxi drivers, cabin crew, baggage handlers, and members of the public. They burst into dance sequences throughout the day as an estimated 80,000 people passed through Terminal 5 on arrival.

via Eugene at MyModern Met

I’m guessing this guy doesn’t usually look this happy on a Monday morning.

That’s the beauty of this Improv Everywhere mission!

Watch below:

Though I actually had much more fun and giggles reading the description with pictures:

High Five Escalator « Improv Everywhere

This is one of my favorite ads of all time. It gets to me every time I see it. I love handwritten snail-mailed letters. May they never die!

Two more concepts from this series (and more background) at The Inspiration Room.

Designed by M&C Saatchi for Australia Post

via Bhatnaturally.

When you are interiorly free you call others to freedom, whether you know it or not. Freedom attracts wherever it appears. A free man or a free woman creates a space where others feel safe and want to dwell. Our world is so full of conditions, demands, requirements, and obligations that we often wonder what is expected of us. But when we meet a truly free person, there are no expectations, only an invitation to reach into ourselves and discover there our own freedom.

Henri Nouwen

“We travel too, of course, with our own capacity to touch, and to bless. Hands connected to eyes that see and ears that hear are no small thing; they can even change the world…or at least a life or two.”

Joel on Vagablogging
(Click to read the full post)

But I’d rather help than watch. I’d rather have a heart than mind. I’d rather expose too much than too little. I’d rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I’d rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

Po Bronson, What Should I Do With My Life? 360

Balance is a mind-set, as individual and unique as our genetic code. Where you find joy, you find balance. … The important thing is to see connecting with others not just as another manipulative tool used toward achieving a goal but rather as a way of life. When you’re out of balance, you’ll know because you’ll be rushed, angry, and unfulfilled. When you’re balanced, you’ll be joyful, enthusiastic, and full of gratitude. … In the end, we all live one life. And that life is all about the people we live it with.

Keith Ferrazzi in Never Eat Alone, 288