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| Apr 17, 2011 |
| “Even after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with A love like that. It lights the whole sky.” — Hafiz of Persia |
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 “Two years ago, on the day before Easter, I gave my three children money instead of Easter baskets. Later that evening, we were all sat watching television, when an infomercial came on about starving children. I couldn’t help tearing up when my children said, “Mom, can we give our Easter money to these children?” I said “yes” and told them that God was going to bless them for this. I wrote a cheque and sent it off in the mail. I wanted to go get them Easter baskets for their kind act, but I didn’t have any more money. To my surprise, on Easter morning, a couple of ladies from a church we used to attend came over with a big box. I didn’t open it until they left, and when I did, tears started streaming down my and I fell to the floor with gratitude. It contained Easter baskets for my children and a gas card for my family. The universe sometimes knocks you on your knees in tears from the way it works…” — god4me
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It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
– W. C. Fields –
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Bell Curve of Empathy
Rhesus monkeys can be trained to pull a chain to obtain food but will refuse to do so if this means another monkey receives an electric shock. How do those monkeys compare with Nazi concentration camp guards? It was childhood tales of Nazi atrocities that first set the Cambridge psychologist, Simon Baron-Cohen, on the path of studying human cruelty and empathy. Instead of “evil”, Simon frames such acts as “empathy erosion” in his book, Zero Degrees of Empathy. Unempathic acts are simply the tail end of a bell curve, found in every population on the planet, and thus, any problem immersed in empathy becomes solvable. { read more }
Submitted by: Vinciane Rycroft
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Take the empathy test and figure out what is your EQ — Empathy Quotient. { more } |
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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
– The Buddha –
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Our Mentors Are Where We Are
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Wherever you go, there you are”? The same could be said for our mentors. Shannon Cutts spoke to a crowd of several hundred students at Truman State University about body image and eating disorders. The truth she shared with students is that most of us simply don’t have time to stop and analyze all of the messages that come at us each day. Most of us don’t even have time to stop and notice that those messages are there. Yet they mentor us. They sink into our awareness anyway — whether we invited them to do so or not. Wherever we go, there we are. And our mentors will go with us… both the mentors we consciously choose, and the mentors which we allow to choose us unconsciously. { read more }
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Reflect on the thoughts, messages, and mentors that influence you. |
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
– Elbert Hubbard –
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The Chef’s Way of Giving Back
When, Haley, who had struggled through poverty most of his life, finally started garnering success in his restaurant business, he realized that he still wasn’t happy. So, while he was searching for something that would make his life more meaningful, that something found him instead: the children. At a charity event, Haley agreed to sponsor two orphaned girls. Back then, he had no clue that these girls would become the reason he would travel half way round the world, meet a new bunch of joyous kids, cook meals for them, reunite them with their families, and receive a striking sense of inner peace in return. { read more }
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Think of ways of giving back to a community or person for whom you are grateful. |
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Social networks are not new. The difference is we have the ability to bridge to each other in ways we never did before.
– Trabian Shorters –
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Connecting for Good: Social Networks in 2015
New networks are emerging everywhere. It’s exciting, and daunting. What is this new network-centric world? What could it mean for community and social change? A new report by the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores how an increasingly connected world – where social networks are proliferating on and off-line- will affect the way people push for social change by 2015. Drawing from more than 70 rich examples of how networks are being used to build better and more engaged communities, the report highlights 5 promising ways people can use networks for social action. They include: listening to the crowd to gain new perspectives and designing for serendipity. { read more }
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Leverage social networks for good. Learn more: { more } |
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Refuse, refuse, refuse. Then reduce, reuse, and recycle (and only in that order).
– Bea Johnson –
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Zero-Waste Living
Five years ago, the Johnson family decided to move into a smaller home. Not only did they downsize their belongings but they took on a zero-waste style of living. Along the way, this family has found a balance, a way to maintain the lifestyle they enjoy, while drastically cutting down on waste. Scott Johnson, was initially skeptical of the project, confessing, “I was just afraid that I’d be eating a bunch of granola or something all the time.” Instead, the family has focused on reducing the number of items in their home, without compromising their needs. { read more }
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Get inspiration to implement zero-waste tips into your own daily lifestyle: { more } |
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Great art picks up where nature ends.
– Marc Chagall –
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Laundromat Art
When a Harlem-based group of artists and community activists wanted to make a difference in their local neighborhoods, they looked for a space that was already being used by the community and had gathering potential. And then they stumbled upon a laundromat. With the help of local and artists participating in their own residency programs, the group sets up daily in a number of laundromats and provides public arts education and programming including sidewalk art, painting, and screen printing — each in laundry-cycle intervals. The nonprofit group that aims to “raise the quality of life for people whose incomes do not guarantee broad access to mainstream arts and cultural facilities” is now officially called the Laundromat Project. { read more }
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Create an art project to beautify your local community. |
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Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
– Author Unknown –
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Today You, Tomorrow Me
A touching story of a random act of kindness: “During this past year I’ve had three instances of car trouble: a blowout on a freeway, a bunch of blown fuses and an out-of-gas situation. They all happened while I was driving other people’s cars, which for some reason makes it worse on an emotional level. Each time, when these things happened, I was disgusted with the way people didn’t bother to help. It was enough to make me say stuff like “this country is going to hell in a handbasket,” which I actually said. But you know who came to my rescue all three times? Poor laborers who didn’t even speak any English.” { read more }
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Offer help the next time you see someone who needs it. |
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Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
– Author Unknown –
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Today You, Tomorrow Me
A touching story of a random act of kindness: “During this past year I’ve had three instances of car trouble: a blowout on a freeway, a bunch of blown fuses and an out-of-gas situation. They all happened while I was driving other people’s cars, which for some reason makes it worse on an emotional level. Each time, when these things happened, I was disgusted with the way people didn’t bother to help. It was enough to make me say stuff like “this country is going to hell in a handbasket,” which I actually said. But you know who came to my rescue all three times? Poor laborers who didn’t even speak any English.” { read more }
Be The Change
Offer help the next time you see someone who needs it. |
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