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Dalai Lama Quote from Snow Lion Publications

August 19, 2011
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Dalai Lama Quote of the Week

If you are totally concerned and preoccupied with the affairs of this lifetime, there is a great danger of causing your own downfall. If by such concern you were able to achieve the desired happiness, that is okay, but this is not the case.

We all let ourselves be caught in this web of preoccupation with the activities and confusion of this lifetime. Having too much worldly involvement ends in confusion. We spend our whole lives thinking that this might be better than that, I should do this, or perhaps something else is better and I should do that. If you reflect upon the underlying dissatisfaction, then you will be able to find that, well, after all, whatever they might be, the affairs of this lifetime are not that important, because they yield a limited benefit. This does not mean that you should not work for your own livelihood, but it does indicate that you should not be preoccupied with that alone. (p.107)

–from The Path to Bliss by H.H. the Dalai Lama, translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa, edited by Christine Cox, published by Snow Lion Publications

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Video of the Week: A Slice of Kindness

August 19, 2011
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Video of the Week

Aug 19, 2011
A Slice of Kindness

A Slice of Kindness

A year ago, Dan Rogers was unemployed and faced some real hardships. Today, he’s in a better place and wanted to share the uplift with those who were a bit down on their luck. So he thought up — Random Acts of Pizza. Anyone who could benefit from a pizza can write an explanation on his website and then Dan (or others from the online community) would pay for it and have it delivered to their home. “It’s that spiritual boost that someone’s got my back,” Dan says.
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The Age of Social Transformation

August 19, 2011

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. — Mary Engelbreit

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Inspiration of the Day:
The most significant social transformation in the last century is the shift, in dominance, of the industrial to knowledge based worker, according to the father of modern management, the late Peter Drucker. Regardless of numbers or power, knowledge workers will uniquely define the emerging knowledge society. This classic, in-depth Atlantic Monthly article by him is a survey of the epoch that began early last century, and an analysis of its manifestations. Drucker asserts that through the social sector a modern developed society can again create a responsible citizenry where individuals, especially knowledge workers, are given a space in which they can make a difference in society and recreate community. His conclusion: “If the twentieth century was one of social transformations, the twenty-first century needs to be one of social and political innovations.” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4613

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Be The Change:
Innovate with how you make a difference in society, with how you help recreate community.

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