Dalai Lama Foundation Study Circle Montreal

Refuse, refuse, refuse. Then reduce, reuse, and recycle (and only in that order). — Bea Johnson

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Good News of the Day:
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. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4527

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Be The Change:
Get inspiration to implement zero-waste tips into your own daily lifestyle: http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4527a

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Great art picks up where nature ends. — Marc Chagall

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Good News of the Day:
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. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4560

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Be The Change:
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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Good News of the Day:
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.” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4559

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Be The Change:
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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Good News of the Day:
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.” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4559

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Be The Change:
Offer help the next time you see someone who needs it.

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Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila

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Good News of the Day:
Meditation has long been touted as a holistic approach to pain relief. And studies show that long-time meditators can tolerate quite a bit of pain. Now researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have found you don’t have to be a lifelong monk to pull it off. Using a special type of brain imaging, researchers saw significant brain changes even in novices who hadn’t meditated before. Their conclusion? “A little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation,” said Dr. Fadel Zeiden. While morphine and pain-killers typically reduce pain ratings by 25%, Wake Forest study found a 40% reduction with meditation! http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4557

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Be The Change:
Meditate. 🙂 Try out Samatha meditation that researchers experimented with. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4557a

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Bliss does not come from outside. It comes from inside, from serving the people. — Anna Hazare

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Fact of the Day:
Anna Hazare, a 73-year-old Gandhian, sat fasting in the burning sun, and he promises to stay until death — unless his Indian government agreed to consider a powerful law that could rid Indian politics of the scourge of corruption. A tall order. Yet, after single-handedly provoking a people’s revolution that galavinized millions of his countrymen, the 72-year-old activist who launched what he calls “India’s second freedom struggle” is likely to end his four-day hunger strike tonight. It took Anna Hazare about 82 hours of fasting to accomplish every point of an agenda that seemed preposterously ambitious when the week began. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4556

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Be The Change:
Learn about this inspiring hero that many in India refer to as the Modern Mahatma. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4556a

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Those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. — Tony Robbins

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Good News of the Day:
Nine-year-old Anaiah Rucker is being hailed as a hero after saving her sister from being hit by a truck last month. Anaiah didn’t think twice before pushing her little sister out of the path of the vehicle as the pair crossed the street to get to the school bus stop. She took the hit instead. After a round of CPR from their mother, her first words upon regaining consciousness were: “Am I going to chorus today?” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4534

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Be The Change:
Show love through selflessness today.

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