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Archive for March 5, 2015
This week’s inspiring video: Maya Penn – 13-Year Old Eco-Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
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Maya Penn – 13-Year Old Eco-Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
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| Maya Penn started to draw as soon as she could hold a crayon. She made her first flip book when she was 3. At age 4, her father taught her how to take apart a computer and put it back together again. At age 8, Maya started her own company, Maya’s Ideas, to sell her eco-friendly clothing and accessories, with a website she coded herself. 3 years later, bursting with too many ideas to be contained in her company, she started Maya’s Ideas 4 the Planet. Oh, and she donates 10 to 20 percent of her profits to local and international charities. What does this teen hope more than anything people will say about her 20 years from now? "I hope people take away that no matter who you are, where you’re from, what your background is, you should be able to do anything you dream of and always do something that can help other people, help the planet in some way. You don’t have to start a nonprofit to give back. It’s the little things." |
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May all who enter as guests leave as friends.
– Unknown –
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Creating Welcoming Space
Marilyn Lacey, founder and executive director of Mercy Beyond Borders, invites us to consider the power of creating welcoming space for others, even those we consider strangers or enemies. Marilyn explains that hospitality “entails creating not just physical room but emotional spaciousness where the stranger can enter and be himself or herself, where the stranger can become ally instead of threat, friend instead of enemy.” This poignant piece causes us to pause and consider the lines we can artifically draw between ourselves and others, and wonder what beautiful things may happen if we are willing to let those lines go. { read more }
Be The Change
When you interact with the next person who crosses your path, practice expanding the welcoming space you provide for the other to truly be himself or herself in your presence. |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 