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Dalai Lama Quote of the WeekWe must distinguish between pride and self-confidence. Self-confidence is necessary. It is what enables us, in certain situations, not to lose courage and to think with some justification, ‘I am capable of succeeding.’ Self-confidence is quite different from excessive self-assurance based on a false appreciation of our capacities or circumstances. If you feel able to accomplish a task that other people cannot manage, then you cannot be called proud as long as your assessment is well founded. It is as if someone tall came across a group of short people who wanted to get something too high for them to reach, and said to them, ‘Don’t exert yourselves, I can do it.’ This would simply mean that he was more qualified than the others to carry out a particular task, but not that he is superior to them or that he wants to crush them.(p.259) –from 365 Dalai Lama: Daily Advice from the Heart by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, edited by Matthieu Ricard, translated by Christian Bruyat, published by Snow Lion Publications 365 Dalai Lama • New edition! |
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Archive for February 24, 2012
Dalai Lama Quote from Snow Lion Publications
February 24, 2012Video of the Week: Seven Habits of Mindful Eating
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30 kidneys, 60 lives: A Kindness Chain
February 24, 2012You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. — Kahlil Gibran
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Good News of the Day:
“A year ago, Rick Ruzzamenti decided in an instant to donate his left kidney to a stranger. In February 2011, the desk clerk at Ruzzamenti’s yoga studio told him she had recently donated a kidney to an ailing friend. Ruzzamenti, 44, had never even donated blood, but the story so captivated him that two days later he placed a call to Riverside Community Hospital to ask how he might do the same thing.” But that was just the beginning. As this NY Times article outlines, Ruzzamenti’s selfless, pay-it-forward act rippled into the longest chain of kidney transplants ever constructed, linking 30 people who were willing to give up an organ with 30 who might have died without one.
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Be The Change:
Start a kindness chain — begin with an unexpected act of generosity.
**Share A Reflection**
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