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Archive for November 13, 2016
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| Love can hope where reason would despair. –George Lord Lyttleton |
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November 13, 2016
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 Editor’s note: We need to double down in our kindness and love for the world more than ever. It’s easy to let fear take over, that is how fear works. Fear takes our feelings of powerlessness and grabs hold of our psyche — growing insidiously and cycling us down further in our despair. It can only be combated by opening our hearts more, with more love and kindness, not by closing our hearts. The universe is calling on all of us to redouble our feelings and acts of loving kindness. –Ameeta |
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Small Acts of Kindness
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janfour wrote: “I have decided to put in time to improve my very local community to make my immediate world feel more hopeful.” |
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scsherrard wrote: “I worked over time so my friend could get a plane ticket to Costa Rica to see his dad.” |
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taytortot2302 wrote: “I expressed appreciation to my Teacher for caring about my education.” |
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Featured Kindness Stories
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Idea of the Week
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At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.
– Parker Palmer –
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Community, Conflict and Ways of Knowing
“I argue that the relation established between the knower and the known, between the student and the subject, tends to become the relation of the living person to world itself.” In this beautifully articulated piece Parker Palmer reflects on how we should be thinking about the nature of community in modern higher education, what role conflict plays in community, and the two types of love that are needed to create a healthy community. “My definition of community is simple, if partial: I understand community as a capacity for relatedness within individuals relatedness not only to people but to events in history, to nature, to the world of ideas, and yes, to things of the spirit.” { read more }
Be The Change
Reflect on your own mode of understanding the world. Does it tend to relate or separate? For more inspiration read this thought-provoking article: “Nature Needs a New Pronoun”. { more } |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 