We just heard two inspiring, heart wrenching, gut churning, funny, amazing life stories, from two Ugandan women, Joan and Teddy, who lifted themselves out of dire poverty and suffering by making and selling paper beads. The poverty is huge. For example, Millie lives on $1 a day earned from crushing rocks in a quarry, and [...]
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Why Spontaneous Kindness Feels So Sexy
The Dalai Lama says kindness is his religion. Wikipedia says that a random act of kindness is: “…a selfless act performed by a person or persons wishing to either assist or cheer up an individual… There will generally be no reason other than to make people smile or be happier.” Being sexy means something is [...]
10 Ways to Help the World This Holiday Season
By Kathryn Hawkins, from Razoo.com, the site for charitable giving. The giving season isn’t just about exchanging gifts with friends and family, or watching your kids eagerly check the contents of their stockings to see what Santa brought them. While the holidays are the perfect time to share presents with the people that you love, [...]
Santa: The Best Karma Yogi In The World
Karma yoga is perfection in action where our activity is of benefit to others, such as doing good, giving without wanting anything in return, and benevolent service. So who could be a better karma yogi than Santa Claus? Although his appearance may fool you, mainly because he has a habit of eating a lot of [...]
12 Ways to Give Back to the Earth
We may be deeply aware, during this season of giving, that our lives depend on the gifts of the Earth. So how can we give back to the Earth? Here are 12 close-to-home ways to practice all year round. 1. Eat closer to home. The average American bite of food travels 1500 miles to reach [...]
What Are You Grateful For?
This is the time of year when gratitude touches all our lives, when we give thanks for whatever we have and we joyfully help others. One Thanksgiving day we volunteered at a local church to help feed the homeless. It was and still is one of the most heartwarming things we have done, as they [...]
Where To Find Supreme Happiness
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. – Helen Keller It would seem that regardless of emotional and physical hardships there is a place inside each of us that is essentially happy and free—but we have a tendency to ignore this place, or to think that being happy is dependent on circumstances or [...]
Turning Jealousy Into Joy
With the impending Presidential election it’s become an onslaught of one-upmanship, with no concession that one or the other might actually be right or have something to offer. It’s an endless battle of my ego versus yours, my opinions versus yours, my brilliance versus your stupidity. In a similar way, growing up in the streets [...]
Understanding What The Universe Has To Offer
If we start appreciating the world around us, we will find that those things that we appreciate multiply and abound. This isn’t magic or coincidence; it is how life works.
3 Tips to Get Over a Bad Break-Up
Being in a relationship is a wonderful experience. Unfortunately, not all wonderful experiences are meant to last. In fact, more often than not when a relationship ends it is typically over faster for one person than the other. The worst relationship breakups occur when one person just wants out and the other person desperately wants [...]
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