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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller

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Good News of the Day:
Cruising in their custom wheelchairs, Chili and Arlo are the center of attention wherever they go. But for patients at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas, these two canine caregivers are also an inspiration. “Many of the patients are new to wheelchairs,” Linda Marler, the program’s director told TODAY.com. “When they see Chili and Arlo, they say, ‘If those dogs can do it, so can I.'” Chili and Arlo are the only dogs with disabilities among the 90 specially trained therapy dogs that participate in Baylor’s Animal Assisted Therapy program. The canine volunteers make weekly visits to lift the spirits of patients who have suffered traumatic injuries or a stroke. “We use the dogs to create more of a home atmosphere and also to get a response,” Marler said. She’s found that animals will often elicit a reaction when every other method has failed. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4729

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Be The Change:
Consider the challenges you’ve overcome — and share your process with someone who might benefit.

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Be yourself. The world worships the original. — Ingrid Bergman

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Good News of the Day:
A controversial statue led conversations.org founder Richard Whittaker to an unusual artist, Fredric Fierstein. The art piece itself was inspired from a place far off the beaten track. In Fredric’s words: “When I’ve gotten out of the cities I’ve met people of the earth, I call them. They’re not the kind of people you meet in the cities who are trying to hustle you. My guide, who spoke Thai and a few dialects, couldn’t speak with this guy. That’s how far out he was. I did find out from him, by sign language, that he was my age at that, which was so great! I had, I don’t know if you’d call it a revelation, I realized that guy could have been me and I could have been him. It’s so incredible.” A rich dialogue follows. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4728

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Be The Change:
Reflect on a radically different and meaningful experience you’ve had — does it inspire your own creativity?

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I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe. — Gay Hendricks

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Inspiration of the Day:
“Mankind is No Island” is a cleverly crafted visual and musical narrative — with a production budget of a whopping $57. Jason van Genderen shot this entire movie on a cell phone using emotive images found on street signage in Sydney and New York. Winner of the TropFest NY 2008 award, the world’s largest short film festival, it is a three and half minute meditation on hope and hunger, on community and care, and on beauty and belonging. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4721

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Be The Change:
Learn from a relationship, whether established or emerging, in a new way today.

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If we just shook and rattled the old chains, nothing would move. One must add one’s own link to the chain. The more original the link, the greater the step forward. — Frederic Chopin

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Tip of the Day:
When Whitney Johnson decided to walk away from a stellar career on Wall Street, even close friends thought she might be making a mistake. But in Johnson’s own words, “Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry. But I’ve found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too.” Six years into her transition she shares lessons gleaned from her journey, in this insightful Harvard Business Review post. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4727

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Be The Change:
Do something disruptive, something that feels right even though it might be unknown.

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. — Saint Augustine

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Inspiration of the Day:
“‘Time’ is the most used noun in the English language, yet it remains a mystery. We’ve just completed an amazingly intense and rewarding multidisciplinary conference on the nature of time, and my brain is swimming with ideas and new questions. Rather than trying a summary (the talks will be online soon), here’s my stab at a top ten list partly inspired by our discussions: the things everyone should know about time.” This intriguing Discover Magazine explores Time from the standpoint of science. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4725

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Be The Change:
What does time mean to you. Reflect here with other readers. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4725a

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We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will. — Colin Beavan

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Inspiration of the Day:
“So many of us have good ideas for helping the world. But we tuck our ideas away. I did. I’d tell myself that if the idea were any good someone else would have already done it. That I’m not capable of making a difference. I’d sit on my ideas, get on with my ‘life,’ and then feel angry at the world because the problems I cared about didn’t get solved. I had that fear of going first. Then I took my first hapless step into what I call accidental activism. In 2006, I started a project where I lived as environmentally as possible for a year — with my little family, on the ninth floor of an apartment building in the middle of New York City — to attract attention to the world’s environmental, economic, and quality of life crises. I had no experience as an activist. Yet suddenly my project caught fire.” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4724

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Be The Change:
Take one small step towards one of your ideas for serving the world.

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It is not the road ahead that wears you out — it is the grain of sand in your shoe. — Arabian proverb

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Good News of the Day:
“These days, however, I live without goals, for the most part. It’s absolutely liberating, and contrary to what you might have been taught, it absolutely doesn’t mean you stop achieving things. It means you stop letting yourself be limited by goals. Consider this common belief: ‘You’ll never get anywhere unless you know where you’re going.’ This seems so common sensical, and yet it’s obviously not true if you stop to think about it. […] Goals as a system are set up for failure. Even when you do things exactly right, it’s not ideal. Here’s why: you are extremely limited in your actions. When you don’t feel like doing something, you have to force yourself to do it. Your path is chosen, so you don’t have room to explore new territory.” Leo Babauta shares his counter-intuitive perspective. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4723

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Be The Change:
Try out not having goals in some domain of your life, and notice the effects.

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