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Dalai Lama Quote from Snow Lion Publications

Dalai Lama Quote of the Week

A Favorite Quote of H.H. the Dalai Lama:
“For as long as space endures
And for as long as sentient beings remain,
Until then may I too abide,
To dispel the misery of the world.”
–Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life

–excerpted from the Dalai Lama Pocket Puja and A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life by Santideva, trans. by Vesna A. Wallace and B. Alan Wallace, published by Snow Lion Publications

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Kindness Daily: Who’s Packing Your Parachute?

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Who’s Packing Your Parachute? December 9, 2011 – Posted by arthurhen

Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, who was a jet pilot during the Vietnam War. After seventy-five combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb safely ejected and parachuted into enemy territory. He was captured and spent six years in a Communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on the lessons he learned from that experience.

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, "You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!"

Somewhat surprised, Plumb asked, "How in the world did you know that?

The man replied, "I packed your parachute."

Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it worked."

"It sure did. If the chute you packed hadn’t worked, I wouldn’t be here today!" Plumb responded.

Plumb couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about that man. He says, "I kept wondering what he might have looked like in a navy uniform: a white hat, a bib in the back, and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said good morning, how are you, or anything else, because, you see, I was a fighter pilot, and he was just a sailor."

Today when Plumb speaks professionally, he asks audiences, "Who’s packing your parachute?"

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Dec 09, 2011

Change for a Dollar

This award-winning short film follows the journey of a homeless man looking for change, but not the kind of change you might think. The film gives expression to the idea that empathy and awareness of the needs of others are more important aspects of philanthropy than financial resources. It also celebrates the notion that even the most powerless among us have the capacity to be agents of goodness in the world. Could you be the change in somebody’s life today?

The Journey of a Basketball Player Turned Poet

A poem should not mean. But be. — Archibald MacLeish

~~~~ Inspiration of the Day: “I started writing this terrible, I call it an awesomely bad, novel. I was going out with this French woman and I told her about it. I told her ‘This book is just juvenile. I don’t know how to do this.’ She said, I have a friend of the family, a writer, and maybe he can help you with it. I agreed with that. So the next thing I know, I meet this little French guy with the glasses. He says to me, ‘I don’t want to read your manuscript, but from what you’ve been telling me, it seems to me you need to get control over the language. So it might be good for you to read poets. Read poets and try to get control over the language.’ That person, I didn’t know who he was at the time, turned out to be Jean Paul Sartre.” Basketball player turned renowned poet, Quincy Troupe, eloquently describes his one-of-a-kind journey. http://premiere.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=169F375:C3009629A010612CFDF08E5DD39FCD8BB4B847859706E37D&

~~~~ Be The Change: Write about some moment that touched you. Try to find just the exactly right words to express it.

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