Dalai Lama Foundation Study Circle Montreal

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. — Anais Nin

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Good News of the Day:
When 9 year old Sara-Beth Martin let out red balloons in her send-off party a week before her second heart surgery, little did she know that one of them will travel 180 miles to reach 8 year old Reanna — struggling with troubles of her own. The balloons carried a simple request of praying for Sara for her successful surgery. Reanna knew adversity and pain herself — she lost her mother to cervical cancer when she was just 4 years old. Reanna wrote a heart warming note to Sara and this marked the beginning of a friendship based on trust, hope and optimism. The friendship had a remarkable effect on Sara: not only was her surgery successful, her appetite returned and she went from frail to energetic in just a couple of months.
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Be The Change:
Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares a beautiful reflection on “the mutuality of first sympathy, [which] seems, at its initial appearance — even if merely in exciting conversation across a dinner table — to be a self enclosed world. Two people listening to each other, two shells meeting each other, making one world between them.”
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. — Denis Waitley

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Inspiration of the Day:
“‘We can’t use these. They look like heirlooms!’ Gina, a guest at my holiday gathering, holds up one of the elaborately embroidered napkins from the buffet table. ‘Where’d you get them?’ ‘Out of a dumpster. The tablecloth and those candleholders were in there, too.’ ‘You can’t be serious! Why would they be in a dumpster?’ The shock in her voice carried across the room, and others looked up. It’s common that women ask where something came from, especially if it’s an attractive article of clothing or new addition to the house. But to name a dumpster as the source of anything, especially an object of beauty, is completely unexpected. My explanation created an atmosphere of mystery.” What follows is a touching true story by author Meredith Sabini on what gives objects value.
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Be The Change:
Take a look around at the things in your living space. Do some seem imbued with memories, while others don’t?

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We build too many walls and not enough bridges. — Isaac Newton

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Good News of the Day:
More than 13 years after his parents drowned in a flash flood, David Kakuko is at the Moruny River, building a bridge that might have prevented their deaths. The hanging footbridge will provide safe passage over the Moruny, a frequently flooded waterway in West Pokot, Kenya. “Before the bridge, there [were] so many people, so many who lost their lives,” said Kakuko, 32. “I know, because I have no parents. I have no parents, because this river took them.” Kakuko is working alongside other local residents and Harmon Parker, a master mason who has been building bridges through Kenya’s mountainous terrain since 1997.
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Be The Change:
Build more “bridges,” and help others do the same.

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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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Good News of the Day:
“‘Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.’ Strange message in a stranger place. I don’t know who said it, but this pronouncement suddenly appeared on a huge wall of the 59th St. subway tunnel connecting the Lexington Avenue trains to the N and R lines. For many months I’d passed the area, which was roped off and covered over with heavy paper — reconstruction in progress. What else is new in NYC! Then one fine day the plastic barrier was cut and the brown paper pulled down. There, gleaming in vivid colors, was a giant mosaic mural with a great scroll of a message running through it in a waving line that ran up and down from ceiling to floor and back.” Author Patty de Llosa shares this timely reflection on finding freedom within our constraints.
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Be The Change:
“Learn to posses all things — your time, your pace of work, your moments of rest, your privacy — all.” Pierre Pradervand, from ‘Letter to A Friend in A Hurry’
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In a painting you create beauty with the addition of each brush stroke. In a company you create it with the addition of each talented, engaged person and with each thoughtful act. — Bill Witherspoon

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Good News of the Day:
In the early 1970s, Bill Witherspoon lived for months in a school bus parked in the Oregon desert. A hundred miles from the nearest town, he spent day after day painting the sky and the clouds. He later sold his work for tidy sums. Witherspoon would spend the rest of his life alternating between painting and launching companies. When Witherspoon, then 60, launched The Sky Factory in 2002, he wondered, Was it possible to create a company as beautiful as a work of art? A beautiful company, in Witherspoon’s mind, starts with the elimination of hierarchies that impede and repress the expression of people’s natural curiosity and creativity. The Sky Factory’s organizational structure is as flat as its creator’s beloved desert. There are no employees, just owners, and everyone cares deeply about doing what is best for the group. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4738

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Be The Change:
Do something today that adds beauty to your workplace.

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