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Archive for September 3, 2016
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| For over a decade the KindSpring community has focused on inner transformation, while collectively changing the world with generosity, gratitude, and trust. We are 100% volunteer-run and totally non-commercial. KindSpring is a labor of love. |
Inspiring Quote
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| My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. — Maya Angelou |
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 GREGACUNA ! Thank you for making time to bring joy to children in hospital cancer wards with your “Compassionate Clowning”, and mentoring others. Send GREGACUNA some KarmaBucks and say hello. |
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September 3, 2016
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 Editor’s note: How can acts of kindness be regenerative rather than depleting for the giver? Is it helpful to have practices or tools that help you check your intention to give so that the kindness being offered is not for the purpose of pleasing others or coming from a place of obligation or fear, but rather emerges from a place of abundance–with no expectation of return or attachment to the outcome? Is being genuinely kind regenerative whereas being people-pleasing or nice potentially depleting? The first story illustrates bottomless, regenerative kindness. |
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Small Acts of Kindness
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16catsand1dog wrote: “I visited with elderly neighbors and a neighbor who just lost her daughter in a car accident. “ |
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mindyjourney wrote: “Saved a few quarters to load into the vending machines. Some child will have a sweet surprise!” |
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balou wrote: “Baked a plate of plum pie today and brought a neighbour of mine, who is usually at home and is caring for her comatose daughter.” |
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Featured Kindness Stories
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Idea of the Week
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New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
– Lao Tzu –
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Martin Levya: Don’t Ever Give Up
Martin Leyva did time for robbery but knew when he walked out of Chino State Prison he would never come back. He would transform his life. In a remarkable story, a blend of perseverance and the world opening up to show him his path, Leyva used his troubled past to become a beacon of hope for others in similar situations. He says, “The whole process [working with youth] feeds my fire for social justice because these youth are so important to our future — to everyone’s future. And youth are vulnerable. We adults have so much power over them– to make them or break them– and because so many people and institutions are threatened by them they use their power to break them. So when the youth get to a program like AHA! where they feel safe, where the adults are really committed to supporting and uplifting and empowering them, it changes the game. It changes how the youth see themselves –as inherently worthwhile people. Seeing them recognize their potential — even just getting a glimpse of it — feeds me.” { read more }
Be The Change
What struggles in your past might be fuel for your future? How can you use your mistakes and difficulties to help others? |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 