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Quote of the Week | Effort with a Light Touch

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March 21, 2012

EFFORT WITH A LIGHT TOUCH

This point is essential: mindfulness tethers the mind to the present. Initially this takes effort, but this effort is applied with a very light touch. It’s like brushing your teeth: you brush, you get distracted, and you just naturally come back. No big deal. By gently returning to the present, our mind calms down, and everything seems workable.

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No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, page 105

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Teachings by Pema Chödrön, from works published by Shambhala Publications. Photo by ©Andrea Roth.

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10 Points on the Science of Spreading Good

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house … kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness. — Mother Teresa

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Good News of the Day:
“Good deeds are contagious. We naturally imitate the people around us, we adopt their ideas about appropriate behavior, and we feel what they feel. Acts of charity are no exception. In our 2010 generosity experiment, we showed that every extra dollar of giving in a game designed to measure altruism caused people who saw that giving to donate an extra twenty cents. Furthermore, the network acts like a matching grant: that same experiment showed that contagious generosity spreads up to three steps through the network (from person to person to person to person), and when we added up all the extra donations that resulted at every step, we found that an extra dollar in giving yielded three extra dollars by everyone else in the network.” Internationally recognized political scientist James Fowler shares the science of spreading good.
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Be The Change:
Spread good today. Find something inspiring, make it more visible, and let the good ripple through your network.

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