Dalai Lama Foundation Study Circle Montreal

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. — Antonio Machado

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Good News of the Day:
“I’d feel so much better about the world we live in if being ‘passionate’ or ‘inspired’ was a national standard instead of so much of the academic trivia that is mandated,” a high school teacher wrote. Working with 11th graders in his capacity as college advisor, he was helping them explore how their own passions could lead to further study and possible career choices. In the process, he introduced some video excerpts from the public television series “Roadtrip Nation,” whose motto is “Define your own road in life.” Roadtrip Nation began in 2001 when four friends just out of college set out across the country in a green RV to interview people who loved what they did. Ten years later, it’s a movement.
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Be The Change:
Take a “road trip” of your own: interview someone who loves what s/he does.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein

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Good News of the Day:
When Arunachalam Muruganantham hit a wall in his research on creating a sanitary napkin for poor women, he decided to do what most men typically wouldn’t dream of. He wore one himself — for a whole week. Fashioning his own menstruating uterus by filling a bladder with goat’s blood, Muruganantham went about his life while wearing women’s underwear, occasionally squeezing the contraption to test out his latest iteration. It resulted in endless derision and almost destroyed his family. But no one is laughing at him anymore, as the sanitary napkin-making machine he went on to create is transforming the lives of rural women across India. Right now, 88% of women in India resort to using dirty rags, newspapers, dried leaves, and even ashes during their period. Perhaps most amazing of all? Muruganantham is a high school dropout.
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Be The Change:
“Genius is often expressed through a change of perception — a modifying of context of paradigm.” A short passage on the humility in true genius.
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Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. — George Bernard Shaw

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Inspiration of the Day:
“I’ve come to believe in Tim Tebow for what he does off a football field, which is represent the best parts of us, the parts I want to be and so rarely am. Who among us is this selfless? Every week, Tebow picks out someone who is suffering, or who is dying, or who is injured.” He flies these people and their families to the Broncos game, and gives them a treat of a lifetime. This ESPN article shares the altruism of one of America’s most famous athletes. In Tebow’s own words: “Here you are, about to play a game that the world says is the most important thing in the world. Win and they praise you. Lose and they crush you. And here I have a chance to talk to the coolest, most courageous people. It puts it all into perspective.”
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Be The Change:
What is your privilege? Share it with someone who would benefit from it, and wouldn’t otherwise have access to it.

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Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi

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Inspiration of the Day:
“It’s often said that every song, every poem, every novel, every painting ever created is in some way ‘about’ love. What this really means is that love is a central theme, an underlying preoccupation, in humanity’s greatest works. But what exactly is love? How does its mechanism spur such poeticism, and how does it lodge itself in our minds, hearts and souls so completely, so stubbornly, as to permeate every aspect of the human imagination? Today, we turn to 5 essential books that are ‘about’ love in a different way — they turn an inquisitive lens towards this grand phenomenon and try to understand where it comes from, how it works, and what it means for the human condition.” Cultural curator Maria Popova shares further.
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Be The Change:
An insightful piece on “giving somebody your heart — the real you, your presence, your true attention. This is the hard thing to do. The risky thing to do.”
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