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Archive for November, 2013
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We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.
– Joanna Macy –
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Joanna Macy: A Wild Love for the World
Joanna Macy is best known today as a Buddhist scholar and activist. She also translated the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Her adventurous life included working for the CIA in Cold War Germany, then, as a young mother, she moved with her husband to post-colonial India, where she cared for Tibetan refugees, joining the young, newly exiled Dalai Lama. Later, she became an environmental activist. Learn more about her in this fascinating in-depth interview. { read more }
Be The Change
Read a beautiful selection of Joanna Macy’s favorite Rilke poems here. { more } |
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We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity.
– John O’Donohue –
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Woody Harrelson: Thoughts from Within
“I sometimes feel like an alien creature, for which there is no earthly explanation,” begins Woody Harrelson’s introspective poem. “I feel like a run-on sentence in a punctuation-crazy world.” This spoken-word piece is brought to life in video with arresting images of the contemporary dilemma, where norms and meaning are dictated by unnatural forces seemingly beyond the control of our individual lives. We have come too far in a direction that has removed us from ourselves. Mr. Harrelson calls for a return to an ethos of caring and belonging that was “pre-us.” { read more }
Be The Change
“Do you dare to feel responsible for every dollar you lay down?” Make every consumptive decision today a thoughtful one. |
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
– Chinese proverb –
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The College Course That’s Changing Lives
Although it might sound like a bunch of self-help hooey-wooey, students at Harvard University have been flocking to take part in a bespectacled professor’s course that tries to impart the wisdom of ancient Chinese philosophers. With the bold claim that “this course will change your life,” instructor Michael Puett teaches how the smallest of actions — as simple as a smile or a wave — can have the most profound ramifications. { read more }
Be The Change
Take note of your day-to-day activities that make you become aware of things that awaken positive and excited feelings. |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 