Dalai Lama Foundation Study Circle Montreal

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society. — Cesar Chavez

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Good News of the Day:
Jean Albert Renaud sleeps in a barn. His bedroom shares a wall with the stall of a stallion named Incitatus. On winter nights, he can hear the wind whistling across the hills, but Renaud (or Jar, as he is known) is warm in the company of his eight horses. He sleeps there because he wants to. Jar’s life has never been conventional, but today it is focused on his noblest effort yet — preserving and nourishing what he calls America’s two most precious and least appreciated treasures: the wild Mustang and our marginalized children. “We treat children like we treat the wild horses,” Jar says. “We rarely take the time to look at the world from their viewpoints. So many of them know and survive the streets without us. They are like wild horses. So, like the horses, how do you approach these ‘wild’ kids?”
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Be The Change:
Is there someone or some group you hold assumptions about? Make an effort to see the world from their viewpoint.

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To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from. — Terry Tempest Williams

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Inspiration of the Day:
“From the beginning of time, every new technological advancement has brought with it a complex mix of positive and negative repercussions as well as unintended consequences. I set out to make a film that addresses the potential of our twenty-first-century technologies and the importance of harnessing their powers. I also wanted to examine what can happen when these new technologies take over and sometimes overwhelm our personal lives. What does it mean to be connected in the twenty-first century? How can we use the power of all these connections to turn things around for the better? I titled the film ‘Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology.'” Tiffany Shlain, one of Newsweek’s ‘Women Shaping the 21st Century,’ shares a thoughtful reflection about the making (as well as a glimpse) of her new award-winning feature documentary.
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Be The Change:
Today, make an effort to use technology in ways that help you connect more meaningfully to people.

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Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Start with what they know; build with what they have. But with the best of leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, we have done this ourselves. — Lao Tzu

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Inspiration of the Day:
“Cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien suggests we’re shifting from an either/or to a both/and culture — one that requires opening the aperture of our irises to better perceive the truth that surrounds apparent paradox. Though two conflicting views may seem irreconcilably opposed, when we expand our vision enough to encompass a whole that’s larger than both, a new reality often emerges — a third way that’s big enough to address each of them within its purview. In a both/and culture instead of avoiding dissenting views, we might embrace the opportunity they raise for expanding vision, exploring them through practicing respectful disagreement. Apparent contradictions can serve to make visible truths that may not have been otherwise seen or acknowledged, enriching the health of the whole through their emergence.” Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers, shares her perspective on Third Way leadership.
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Be The Change:
Angeles Arrien, quoted above, shares a short reflection on the role of discipline and responsibility.
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There are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. — Ivy Baker Priest

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Good News of the Day:
That bar of soap you used once or twice during your last hotel stay might now be helping poor children fight disease. Derreck Kayongo and his Atlanta-based Global Soap Project collect used hotel soap from across the United States. Instead of ending up in landfills, the soaps are cleaned and reprocessed for shipment to impoverished nations such as Haiti, Uganda, Kenya and Swaziland. “I was shocked just to know how much (soap) at the end of the day was thrown away,” Kayongo said. Each year, hundreds of millions of soap bars are discarded in North America alone. “Are we really throwing away that much soap at the expense of other people who don’t have anything? It just doesn’t sound right.”
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Be The Change:
Learn more about the Global Soap Project here.
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