Kindness Daily: Hope And Joy In A Wal-Mart Car Park
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I started to get irritated when a woman and her child stopped dead in the middle of the parking lot to chat and hug with a friend while I was trying to back out! They seemed oblivious to my need to get moving.
Language Is More Than Just Words
A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language. — Noam Chomsky
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Good News of the Day:
“We Still Live Here” is a fascinating documentary that tells a life affirming story of cultural revival. It follows the journey of social worker Jessie Little Doe Baird, a member of the Wampanoag tribe of Native Americans, who undertook an incredible quest to reclaim the language of her people. In 1993 Jessie began to hear the voices of her ancestors speaking in a language she didn’t understand. At the time, the Wampanoag tongue hadn’t been spoken for more than a 100 years. Jessie had never been to college, but she was determined to bring this language back to life. In a remarkable sequence of events, the mother of four would be invited (by Noam Chomsky no less!) to join a graduate program at MIT and receive the formal training needed to bring back a vanished language. Her young daughter would become the first native speaker in more than a century.
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Be The Change:
Learn more about the work being done around the world to reclaim languages, and preserve and protect the heritage of indigenous people through an organization called Cultural Survival.
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Year of Dancing with Life – Week 14
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InnerNet Weekly: Seekers of Ultimate Mystery
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Gandhi on the Power of One
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi
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Inspiration of the Day:
“There were many observers who said Gandhi was extraordinary, an exception to the limitations that hold back the rest of the human race. Others dismissed him — some with great respect, others with less — as just another great man who was leaving his mark on history. Yet, according to him, there was no one more ordinary. ‘I claim to be an average man of less than average ability,’ he often repeated. ‘I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.’ The fact is, while most people think of ordinariness as a fault or limitation, Gandhi had discovered in it the very meaning of life — and of history.” The late Gandhian scholar Eknath Easwaran shares further on Gandhi’s faith in the power of the individual.
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Be The Change:
This classic 2-minute video inspires further conviction in the power of one.
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Smile Newsletter: In The Middle of Nowhere
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“While walking back from a wonderful day’s outing to our local park and library, my two grandgirls and I found a wallet laying on the ground beside the trunk of a tree on a residential street. At first I just thought it must belong to a child in the neighborhood, but once I opened it up I realized that someone was missing their driver’s license and other important items. At first I was not quite sure what to do, but then decided to open the wallet and look for a way of getting ahold of the owner of the wallet. Luckily for her she carried business cards with the phone number. I called her, she called me back and we were able to return her wallet to her within 5 minutes of finding it. This certainly is not a ‘new’ story but became a very special time spent with my grandchildren – 7 1/2 and 4 1/2 years old. Their faces just beamed when they were able to return the wallet and see how grateful the person was. This act of kindness will stay with them for a lifetime.” — yogagini
Benefits of Rising Early — and How to Do It
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. — Paul Valery
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Tip of the Day:
“Recently, reader Rob asked me about my habit of waking at 4:30 a.m. each day, and asked me to write about the health benefits of rising early, which I thought was an excellent question. Unfortunately, there are none, that I know of. However, there are a ton of other great benefits. Now, let me first say that if you are a night owl, and that works for you, I think that’s great. There’s no reason to change, especially if you’re happy with it. But for me, switching from being a night owl to an early riser (and yes, it is possible) has been a godsend. It has helped me in so many ways that I’d never go back.” Leo Babauta of Zen Habits shares just a few reasons for becoming an early riser, as well as tips on making the shift.
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Be The Change:
If you aren’t an early riser already, try experimenting with some of Babauta’s suggestions.
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Dalai Lama Quote from Snow Lion Publications
Dalai Lama Quote of the WeekGreed is a form of desire. However, it is an exaggerated form of desire, based on overexpectation. The true antidote of greed is contentment. For a practicing Buddhist, for a Dharma practitioner, many practices can act as a kind of counterforce to greed: the realization of the value of seeking liberation or freedom from suffering, recognizing the underlying unsatisfactory nature of one’s existence, and so on. These views also help an individual to counteract greed. But in terms of an immediate response to greed, one way is to reflect upon the excesses of greed, what it does to one as an individual, where it leads. Greed leads one to a feeling of frustration, disappointment, a lot of confusion, and a lot of problems. When it comes to dealing with greed, one thing which is quite characteristic is that although it arises from the desire to obtain something, it is not satisfied by obtaining it. Therefore, it becomes limitless or boundless, and that leads to trouble. The interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, as I pointed out, even after obtaining the object of one’s desire, one is still not satisfied. On the other hand, if one has a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether one obtains the object or not; either way, one is still content.(p.32) –from Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective by the Dalai Lama, translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa, published by Snow Lion Publications Healing Anger • Now at 5O% off! |
The Leadership Genius of Bob the Builder
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. — William Shakespeare
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Good News of the Day:
Most of us believe in positive self-talk. “I can achieve anything,” we mouth to the mirror in the morning. We believe we’ll do better if we banish doubts about our ability or our strategy and instead muster an inner voice that affirms our awesomeness. But not Bob the Builder. You might not realise it, but the overall-clad, stop-motion animated construction executive — who debuted on CBBC in 1999 and whose television programme now reaches children in 240 territories and 45 languages — is a management radical. His approach to directing projects, people and himself runs counter to the prevailing wisdom about business performance. Instead of puffing up himself and his team, he first wonders whether they can actually achieve their goal. In asking his signature question — Can we fix it? — he introduces some doubt. Renowned author Daniel Pink explains the latest research wisdom behind doubt.
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Be The Change:
Working on a problem? Test out the wisdom of a little modest doubt.
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Newsletter: You Bloom, We Bloom
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BloomBars: ‘This gets people because they think they’re coming to a bar and I never say we’re not a bar. I don’t think you have to serve alcohol and if you came here thinking that, I want you to feel like you were served something else. I want you to consider looking at that, at the value of what you get, at what the offering is. The idea was to have multiple bars that served books, vegan foods, and even causes; a ’cause’ bar that served different organizations every week. It was all about serving things that were feeding your soul in different ways.’
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