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Archive for July 31, 2015
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| Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. –Bertolt Brecht |
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July 31, 2015
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 Editor’s note: Dear Friends, Following last week’s theme of "being present", this week’s theme is "on noticing." Some of the stories that came in were from people who noticed a need that could have easily been missed. Not only did they notice it, but they moved to action and followed their instincts to help. This way of being, I believe is the start to a more conscious living – Guri |
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Small Acts of Kindness
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Mel37865 wrote: “Today I gave a ride to a stranger in a McDonald’s uniform on way to work” |
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kbv wrote: “Yesterday I helped my mom to do laundry after a minor surgical procedure. Easy to do and it lifted her spirits!” |
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pyronik wrote: “my workmate who lost her phone – someone’s just contacted her ICE to say they found the phone & it’s on her way back to her :-)” |
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Featured Kindness Stories
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Idea of the Week
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
– Khalil Gibran –
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Grace Paley: On the Value of Not Understanding Everything
Like any artist, a writer is often a channel for expressing the ineffable. Thus how, in the midst of searching, can a writer consciously reach forth and grasp a wisp of truth? Grace Paley, poet, author, and activist, argues that it is in the counterintuitive embrace of “ununderstanding” that realness in writing reveals itself. { read more }
Be The Change
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 