Dalai Lama Foundation Study Circle Montreal

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes – goodwill among men and peace on earth. — Albert Einstein

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Good News of the Day:
Daniel Simonton has been sending $5 bills to strangers in the mail. And in return, he wants nothing. The idea came while he was walking down Broadway Avenue in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. He “distinctly noticed how a lot of people seemed really cranky.” “I started to wonder when the last time it was someone did anything nice for these people,” Simonton said. And so the experiment began… http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4392

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Be The Change:
Practice simple acts of kindness 🙂
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Any man that walks the mead in bud, or blade, or bloom, may find a meaning suited to his mind. — Alfred Tennyson

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Fact of the Day:
A Reakirt’s blue butterfly egg (Hemiargus isola) nestles on a powderpuff bud (Mimosa strigillosa) in this six times magnified image taken by David Millard, recognized in Nikon’s 2010 Small World competition. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4400

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Be The Change:
Find beauty in a subtlety of your day.

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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. — George Lois

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Fact of the Day:
For years, Dr. Val Curtis has been persuading people in the developing world to wash their hands habitually with soap. Meanwhile, researchers at Duke and Cornell universities were examining how often smokers quit while vacationing and how much people eat when their plates are deceptively large or small. Those and other studies revealed that as much as 45 percent of what we do every day is habitual- that is, performed almost without thinking in the same location or at the same time each day, usually because of subtle cues. Today, public health campaigns are being revamped to employ habit-formation characteristics, according to people involved in those efforts. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4403

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Be The Change:
Consider your habits. What would you change?

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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. — Paul Boese

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Inspiration of the Day:
Shyam Narayan Sharma is a bedraggled man noticeable for his garland of old shoes and for wearing sandals and clothes made out of torn jute bags. He has served time in jail after turning himself in for capital crimes. While in jail, Sharma had a personal transformation and “made 600 inmates literate.” Upon his release on bail, Dayasagar sold his double-story home to set up a tin shed private school for the poor called Nai Subah (New Morning) where some 60 children of the neighborhood now come for free education. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=2427

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Be The Change:
Bo and Sita Lozoff’s Prison-Ashram project provides spiritual literature and workshops for prisoners. Support their Human Kindness Foundation http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=2427a

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning

To call someone a hero means – I’d decide what to do by asking what they’d do in the same situation. That’s a stricter standard than admiration. — Paul Graham

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Good News of the Day:
Can modern science help us to create heroes? That’s the lofty question behind the Heroic Imagination Project, a new nonprofit started by Phil Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University. Heroism isn’t supposed to be a teachable trait. We assume that people like Gandhi or Rosa Parks or the 9/11 hero Todd Beamer have some intangible quality that the rest of us lack. When we get scared and selfish, these brave souls find a way to act, to speak out, to help others in need. That’s why they’re heroes. Zimbardo rejects this view. “We’ve been saddled for too long with this mystical view of heroism,” he says. “A hero is just an ordinary person who does something extraordinary. I believe we can use science to teach people how to do that.” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4391

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Be The Change:
Make a list of your heroes. Is there a pattern? (It means those are the qualities you’d like to see most in yourself!)

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