What's in a name

MOAKIA

MOtirõ - mitAKuye oyasin – eudaimonIA

Coming together to help each other, as we are all connected, so that we may achieve something more than happiness.

- Motirõ -

Meeting people to build something together, helping each other

A term originating from the Tupi-Guarani, Motirõ means to bring people together to harvest or build something together, always helping each other. It preaches, in a practical way, the importance of helping our brothers and sisters, and of being with them for a collective good and greater than just focusing on our own needs.

- Mitakuye Oyasin -

I'm connected to everything that exists

Despite being a term directly linked to religious precepts, one cannot deny the force that the term has. The term “Mitakuye Oyasin” is present in prayers made by the indigenous tribe “Lakota Sioux”. It talks about the connection of human beings to everything that exists. It talks about harmony in everything, reminding human beings that we are all interconnected.

- Eudaimonia -

A better word than happiness: accomplishment

Eudaimonia is an ancient Greek term, particularly emphasized by the philosophers Plato and Aristotle. The ancient Greeks did not believe that the purpose of life was to be happy. Their proposal was the search for eudaimonia, a word that was better translated as “accomplishment”

…And yet, perhaps, at the end of our lives, we still feel that these tasks have been worth it. Through them, we will have accessed something bigger and more interesting than happiness: we will have made a difference.

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