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Archive for July 10, 2015
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| Hope is a waking dream. –Aristotle |
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July 10, 2015
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 Editor’s note: Dear Friends, After reading the stories that come in, every week feels more full-of-hope than the last. This week, the stories took us to many different parts of the world. From a life-long dream come true of starting a soup kitchen in South Africa, to helping earthquake victims in Nepal, to giving a boost to a guy on a bus ride. We are honored to know that these human beings exist in our world. And are changing lives one act at a time. –Guri |
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Small Acts of Kindness
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tmnapolitano wrote: “Because it was raining, I drove to the subway. I swung by my normal bus stop and picked up my two fellow bus mates so they wouldn’t have to stand in the rain.” |
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SmileSharer wrote: “Volunteered with a homeless shelter and played with the children and got them snacks before bed” |
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pixie1869 wrote: “I received some free meal cards from a local fast food restaurant and I gave them out to people that I know could use a free meal. It brightened up my day to see them smile! :-)” |
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Featured Kindness Stories
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Idea of the Week
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Friends, few personal updates from my end.
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| Last week, I was in Atlanta speaking about a value that so many of us naturally resonate with: humility. Preceded by John Lewis and Andrew Young talking about Martin Luther King Jr., the ambiance became profoundly charged. Here’s the transcript of what I shared:
The Radical Power of Humility
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As the days unfold, I continue to be taken by serendipity. Sometimes life offers us an opportunity to be helpful — like this man whose name I may never know — and sometimes we get completely unexpected inspiration, like my chance meeting with a deeply cultivated potter. But at a deeper level, the lines are impossibly blurred and it’s hard to tell who (or what) is serving who.
With smiles, 🙂
Nipun |
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I think we all know our outer lives are only as good as our inner lives.
– Pico Ayer –
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Pico Iyer on Bringing Calm Into the Motion of the World
“Pico Iyer is not a spiritual teacher or even, he says, a spiritual person per se. But he has become one of our most beloved and eloquent translators of the modern rediscovery of inner life. As a journalist and novelist, he travels the globe from Ethiopia to North Korea, and he lives in Japan. But he also experiences a remote Benedictine hermitage as his second home, retreating there many times each year. In this intimate conversation, we explore the ‘art of stillness’ he practices — not in order to enrich the mountaintop, he writes, ‘but to bring calm into the motion of the world.'” { read more }
Be The Change
Devote some time to your inner life everyday and watch how your outer life improves. |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 