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Archive for December 23, 2011
Kindness Daily: Marvin’s Prayer Book
December 23, 2011
Video of the Week: The Good Life Parable
December 23, 2011
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A 13-yr-old Secret Santa
December 23, 2011Give like a small sun: touch the world with shafts of your light, bring smiles into bloom like flowers. — DailyGood Editors
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Good News of the Day:
For the second straight Christmas, a philanthropist from Utah’s Capitol Hill has been warming the hearts of the homeless and brightening the smiles of hundreds of their children. The benefactor works year-round raising money, networking with businesses, buying and wrapping gifts, and encouraging random residents to pitch in with presents the underprivileged kids otherwise would never see. Jocelyn Hanrath, an adopted girl too humble to take any credit, is 13. So how did it all start? Jocelyn and her mom got a call from Bonnie Peters, executive director of Family Support Center, saying her Sub-for-Santa collection could use diapers for a single mom with a baby. “Jocelyn said, ‘Babies don’t get diapers for Christmas, they get toys,'” Jocelyn’s mother remembers. “She said, ‘You go buy diapers, I’m buying toys. Kids know what kids need.'”
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Be The Change:
Click on ‘more’ and write a note supporting / encouraging Jocelyn in the “Add New Comment” section (we’ll make sure she sees it).
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Dharma Quote from Snow Lion Publications
December 23, 2011
Dharma Quote of the WeekSpeech that is not harmful is the meaning of “right speech.” It is wise speech. Wise people can still be quite firm and decisive when that is what is needed. It means finding generous and productive ways of saying things. There are times when we need to be strict, but we do not have to denigrate or harm the person or child who is out of line. Firm speech can also be wise speech. Wise speech is another tool that can be practiced. We can begin by practicing wise speech to ourselves–replacing the inner voice of guilt that is putting us down and opening a space to listen to our deeper needs. What can I say which will be helpful to someone? What tone of voice will I use? And when is it wise to say nothing? Imagine yourself actually saying something helpful and supportive. Imagine the difference it would make in your life if you could say just one helpful thing to one person. Imagine your life if your speech always came from wisdom.(p.136) –from Enough! A Buddhist Approach to Finding Release from Addictive Patterns by Chonyi Taylor, published by Snow Lion Publications Enough! • Now at 5O% off! |
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