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Archive for January 8, 2015
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“Life is Easy”
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| "Life is easy" says Jon Jandai. "Why do we have to make it so difficult?" After pursuing "success" in Bangkok for several years, Jo dropped out of university to return to village life. There, he went back to the life he knew as a child, working 2 months of the year to grow rice (with an additional 15 minutes a day to grow vegetables), dug a couple of fish ponds, built his own homes using earthen bricks, and gave up buying clothes (he has so many clothes from friends and visitors that he has to give them away). Jo contends that to be happy, we cannot just rely on money; we have to reconnect with each other. |
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You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
– Jane Goodall –
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From Rwandan Garbage Dump To Harvard
After 2-year old Justus’ parents vanished during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, he lived in a stripped-out car in the Kigali City Dump, surviving on food scraps thrown out by nearby restaurants and hotels. Six years later, Clare Effiong was driving through Rwandan dirt roads in a taxi cab, looking for ways to “do good.” Her intuition told her to pull over when she saw a group of children, including Justus, on the side of the road. After learning that Justus wanted to go to school, Clare found him a place to stay and paid for his schooling. Justus was a brilliant student and eventually earned admission into Harvard University. Today, Justus believes passionately that “What has been done for him, he must now do for others…Self-affirmation requires him to pay it forward.” Read on to learn more about this remarkable story. { read more }
Be The Change
Take a moment to think about what kind of impact you want your being to have on the world. Do one thing today to honor that aspiration. |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 