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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
– Elbert Hubbard –
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The Chef’s Way of Giving Back
When, Haley, who had struggled through poverty most of his life, finally started garnering success in his restaurant business, he realized that he still wasn’t happy. So, while he was searching for something that would make his life more meaningful, that something found him instead: the children. At a charity event, Haley agreed to sponsor two orphaned girls. Back then, he had no clue that these girls would become the reason he would travel half way round the world, meet a new bunch of joyous kids, cook meals for them, reunite them with their families, and receive a striking sense of inner peace in return. { read more }
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Social networks are not new. The difference is we have the ability to bridge to each other in ways we never did before.
– Trabian Shorters –
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Connecting for Good: Social Networks in 2015
New networks are emerging everywhere. It’s exciting, and daunting. What is this new network-centric world? What could it mean for community and social change? A new report by the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores how an increasingly connected world – where social networks are proliferating on and off-line- will affect the way people push for social change by 2015. Drawing from more than 70 rich examples of how networks are being used to build better and more engaged communities, the report highlights 5 promising ways people can use networks for social action. They include: listening to the crowd to gain new perspectives and designing for serendipity. { read more }
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Leverage social networks for good. Learn more: { more } |
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Refuse, refuse, refuse. Then reduce, reuse, and recycle (and only in that order).
– Bea Johnson –
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Zero-Waste Living
Five years ago, the Johnson family decided to move into a smaller home. Not only did they downsize their belongings but they took on a zero-waste style of living. Along the way, this family has found a balance, a way to maintain the lifestyle they enjoy, while drastically cutting down on waste. Scott Johnson, was initially skeptical of the project, confessing, “I was just afraid that I’d be eating a bunch of granola or something all the time.” Instead, the family has focused on reducing the number of items in their home, without compromising their needs. { read more }
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Get inspiration to implement zero-waste tips into your own daily lifestyle: { more } |
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Great art picks up where nature ends.
– Marc Chagall –
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Laundromat Art
When a Harlem-based group of artists and community activists wanted to make a difference in their local neighborhoods, they looked for a space that was already being used by the community and had gathering potential. And then they stumbled upon a laundromat. With the help of local and artists participating in their own residency programs, the group sets up daily in a number of laundromats and provides public arts education and programming including sidewalk art, painting, and screen printing — each in laundry-cycle intervals. The nonprofit group that aims to “raise the quality of life for people whose incomes do not guarantee broad access to mainstream arts and cultural facilities” is now officially called the Laundromat Project. { read more }
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Create an art project to beautify your local community. |
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Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
– Author Unknown –
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Today You, Tomorrow Me
A touching story of a random act of kindness: “During this past year I’ve had three instances of car trouble: a blowout on a freeway, a bunch of blown fuses and an out-of-gas situation. They all happened while I was driving other people’s cars, which for some reason makes it worse on an emotional level. Each time, when these things happened, I was disgusted with the way people didn’t bother to help. It was enough to make me say stuff like “this country is going to hell in a handbasket,” which I actually said. But you know who came to my rescue all three times? Poor laborers who didn’t even speak any English.” { read more }
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Offer help the next time you see someone who needs it. |
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Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
– Author Unknown –
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Today You, Tomorrow Me
A touching story of a random act of kindness: “During this past year I’ve had three instances of car trouble: a blowout on a freeway, a bunch of blown fuses and an out-of-gas situation. They all happened while I was driving other people’s cars, which for some reason makes it worse on an emotional level. Each time, when these things happened, I was disgusted with the way people didn’t bother to help. It was enough to make me say stuff like “this country is going to hell in a handbasket,” which I actually said. But you know who came to my rescue all three times? Poor laborers who didn’t even speak any English.” { read more }
Be The Change
Offer help the next time you see someone who needs it. |
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Pain is never permanent.
– Teresa of Avila –
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Meditation More Effective Than Morphine?
Meditation has long been touted as a holistic approach to pain relief. And studies show that long-time meditators can tolerate quite a bit of pain. Now researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have found you don’t have to be a lifelong monk to pull it off. Using a special type of brain imaging, researchers saw significant brain changes even in novices who hadn’t meditated before. Their conclusion? “A little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation,” said Dr. Fadel Zeiden. While morphine and pain-killers typically reduce pain ratings by 25%, Wake Forest study found a 40% reduction with meditation! { read more }
Submitted by: Sunil S.
Be The Change
Meditate. 🙂 Try out Samatha meditation that researchers experimented with. { more } |
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| Apr 10, 2011 |
| “A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.” — Author Unknown |
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 “When I got married, I told my wife that every year, at Christmas, I love to give an anonymous gift. I feel that’s the true meaning of Christmas – it is about giving and not receiving. My wife had a friend that she had grown close to over time. Just before Christmas one year, her friend lost her job. She had very few savings and no where to turn for help, and she has two young children. My wife and I decided to help her, but to do it anonymously. We purchased a money order from a store and mailed it to her with no return address and we mailed it from a city outside of our area so the postmark was unknown. Well 4 years later, also at Christmas time, my wife told her who the money was from and when she did her friend just smiled and said from that Christmas on she has been helping others who are in need every Christmas. It just goes to show you a little help can have a lot of ripples.” — Jarhead
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Bliss does not come from outside. It comes from inside, from serving the people.
– Anna Hazare –
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82 Hour Hunger Fast
Anna Hazare, a 73-year-old Gandhian, sat fasting in the burning sun, and he promises to stay until death — unless his Indian government agreed to consider a powerful law that could rid Indian politics of the scourge of corruption. A tall order. Yet, after single-handedly provoking a people’s revolution that galavinized millions of his countrymen, the 72-year-old activist who launched what he calls “India’s second freedom struggle” is likely to end his four-day hunger strike tonight. It took Anna Hazare about 82 hours of fasting to accomplish every point of an agenda that seemed preposterously ambitious when the week began. { read more }
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Learn about this inspiring hero that many in India refer to as the Modern Mahatma. { more } |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 