The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. — Dean Koontz
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Good News of the Day:
We humans are soft-wired for sociability and affection, wanting to belong and to empathize. The question is “Can we extend our empathy to the entire human race and biosphere?” Bringing in recent insights from fields like neuroscience to anthropology, author and social thinker Jeremy Rifkin’s maps out a solution in a stunningly visual and cohesive way. In this ten-minute video, he defines the empathic civilization — and suggests that if we can imagine that possibility, we can save our species and our planet. “Empathy is grounded in the acknowledgment of death and the celebration of life, and rooting for each other to flourish and be … the ability to show solidarity not only with each other, but our fellow creatures.”
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Be The Change:
As you use your intellect today, make a conscious effort to add in courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
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Once I left an envelope on someone’s work truck and got back into our trailer. I just happened to look out at the bus later and I saw the guy open my envelope and find the gift. He read the card and then he looked around to see who had done this. I just smiled to myself, without being found out. I always leave my gifts where people will find them, but never see me do it – I like it to be anonymous.
“The other day, I was standing in a very long line at the drugstore. A gracious gentlemen in front of me allowed me to go ahead. Wanting to repay him for his kindness, I thanked him, paid for my items, and then paid for his purchases as well!” –trionafaye
Sangha of Auspicious Companions 