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Archive for August 11, 2014
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August 11, 2014
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 Editor’s note: Hi everyone! An inspiring post on the KindSpring feed this morning read "One small, positive thought in the morning can change your whole day." Thank you for that reminder! Hope you all have a beautiful week and wake up with positive thoughts every morning. |
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Small Acts of Kindness
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jsmc10 wrote: “‘success isn’t just what you achieve, but what you inspire others to do'” |
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truthunltd wrote: “Our days are happier if we give people a bit of our heart … rather than a piece of our mind. Be considerate …” |
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princessliz wrote: “I believe that honesty is kindness. Even though someone told me a brutal truth, I’d rather hear that than to hear a lie. I want to encourage everyone to be kind and to always be honest.” |
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Featured Kindness Stories
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The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
– -Maria Edgeworth- –
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An Icebox, A Live Heart And The Man Who Drove & Drove
In some ways, it was surprising that any good could ever come of a cadaver, a heart failure and a vehicle with a live heart in its trunk tearing through a crowded city.
That it did on June 16, 2014 in Chennai, and that more than 50 people coordinated the whole thing with surreal precision to save a life, could tempt one to use words like âmiracleâ or âaberrationâ. But in truth, it was already the cityâs eighth time this year: a heart transplant made possible by someoneâs supreme generosity, a government organ registryâs bureaucratic brilliance and the policeâs logistical enthusiasm. { read more }
Be The Change
Sometimes we are the ambulance driver, and sometimes we are the pedestrian, just trying to get out of the way for the ambulance to pass. Both matter. Find a friend and reflect on times when you have been in both roles and how both transformed your awareness of our interconnection. |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 