Quote of the Day: “Today, I’m not what I think I am. I’m not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.” – Charles Cooley
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The Lesson: When we think of the word “addiction”, we tend to immediately think of the absolute worst forms of alcoholism and substance abuse. But according to Russell Brand – a celebrity who has overcome almost every form of addiction – everyone is addicted to something. In this fascinating interview, the media mogul himself talks about how we can overcome our own addictions and learn to love ourselves in a consumer-crazy culture.
Notable Excerpt: “All substance addiction is, is it distills perfectly the phenomenon of addiction. Because if you withdraw from heroin, you know what it is you need. But I think a lot of us suffer from the notion that there is something missing from our lives; that there is something that is not whole about us; that we are, in some way, inadequate, and we can address this through consuming. Now our culture relies on us feeling like this, mate … capitalism depends on the perennial stimulation of desire. But if you don’t need anything, then you’re not going to buy the Saint Laurents or the Nikes.”
The Speaker: Russell Brand is an outspoken author and hilarious comedian, actor, and radio host who often discusses how he utilized meditation to overcome the many addictions (see list below) which held him hostage in the early stages of his career. In addition to starring in dozens of films and media productions, he wrote “Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions”, which is described as “a guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay.”
The Host: Jay Shetty is an inspirational speaker, YouTube show host, and content creator who turned away from his pursuit of wealth and fame at the age of 22 so he could become a monk and wander across Europe and India. Now, as his career blossoms across social media, Shetty is considered to be one of the most widely-viewed international motivational speakers with millions of viewers seeking his wisdom on life, love, business, and health.
(WATCH the inspiring talk below, or on YouTube) – Editor’s note: this talk contains some mature content and some cursing.
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A district in India has just become the first of the country’s union territories to be 100% powered by solar energy.
Diu, which has a population of roughly 56,000 people, now holds a solar capacity of 13 MW; 3 MW of which are generated from rooftop units, while the other 10 MW are generated through regular facilities.
Before Diu started building its own electrical infrastructure, the district depended on a neighboring territory to provide for their energy needs. In addition to being more expensive, this tactic also resulted in huge line losses throughout Diu.
Milind Ingle, who is the executive engineer of the territory’s electricity departmen, told Times of India: “For water and electricity, the Union territory was solely dependent on the Gujarat government. To overcome this limitation, the administration of the Union territory decided to set up solar power plants in Diu.”
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According to the Times of India, residents of Diu have seen a 12% reduction in their electrical fees since the district started generating their own power. In fact, Diu’s solar facilities are able to generate far more energy than the district even demands.
“Diu’s peak-time demand for electricity goes up to 7 MW and we generate about 10.5 MW of electricity from solar energy daily. This is way more than the consumption demand requirement.”
Plus, Diu can now serve as an example for the rest of the country’s sustainability goals.
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Republished with permission from Peace News Network
March 11, 2018
Written by Lea Suter
North and South Korea have been clashing for the last seven decades, but this group of musicians is building peace one note at a time.
The Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra recently performed a concert on the border of North and South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone. The 100 musicians moved outside for the final song so people across the border could hear the music.
“The DMZ – the Demilitarized Zone – in the Korean peninsula is one place on Earth that desperately needs music,” said the orchestra founder Hyung Joon Won.
Joon Won founded the orchestra in 2009 to promote reconciliation. He dreams of organizing a performance with musicians and singers from both sides of the border.
“I believe in the power of music, which can definitely help and promote reconciliation and peace between two countries,” Joon Won told PeacePrints.
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“Conflict happens, in my mind, in my opinion, when there’s no communication, for groups, or for people. For example, North and South Korea – we do not have communications at all,” he said, “but music, for example, when we are gathered through music, we learn instantly how to communicate.”
“I really wish North and South Korea will talk and meet through music, so the world will see the hope of our reconciliation and peace, and the value of music – to contribute to building bridges as to the division of our nation, conflict, and a lack of communication. Peace is harmony.“
Footage courtesy of PeacePrints, an independently funded blog for peace projects around the world. Learn more about PeacePrints here.
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It was just another day of work for Evoni Williams when a stranger snapped a photo of her that would change her life.
18-year-old Williams has been working at a Waffle House restaurant in La Marque, Texas since she graduated high school. She has been saving up all of her tips, earnings, and wages to pay for college.
Williams was working a chaotic morning shift when a partially disabled customer named Adrien Charpentier asked if Williams could cut up his ham.
The senior says that he has recently been experiencing muscle weakness in his hands, and though he can hold a fork perfectly, he can’t properly use a knife to cut up his food.
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Despite the hectic work environment, Williams said that she was more than happy to oblige.
As she was cutting up the ham, another patron at the restaurant witnessed the sweet exchange, snapped a photo, and posted it to Facebook where it was shared thousands of times.
The photo garnered so much attention that it eventually caught the eye of La Marque Mayor Bobby Hocking.
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“Somebody tagged me and it immediately, it just touched my heart,” Hocking told KTVI. “It’s so wonderful that the younger generation cares about the older generation.”
As a means of thanking the young lady for her kindness, Hocking declared that March 8th was Evoni “Nini” Williams Day. Not only that, but officials from Texas State University rewarded the humble Waffle House server with a $16,000 scholarship for the school.
Williams, who was brought to tears by the generosity of her city, says that she plans on studying business and management at TSU.
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Quote of the Day: “It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.” – Dilgo Rinpoche (Tibetan guru, author of Joy of Living)
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One stranger’s selfless act of unspeakable generosity has resulted in a ripple effect of good deeds that involved at least a dozen people – and saved half a dozen lives.
21-year-old Brendan Flaherty had been attached to a dialysis machine and waiting for a kidney transplant for six years.
When no suitable donors had been found, his friend Philip Cameli stepped up to volunteer his kidney, but, as fate dictated, he was not a match. Meanwhile, a 44-year-old woman named Kimberly Cooper just walked into the hospital one day to sign-up to volunteer to give away her kidney, and the computer matched her to young Brendan.
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Cameli was so inspired by her eagerness to benefit a stranger that the teen decided to go ahead and donate his kidney, too. But it didn’t end there!
The woman who was a sudden match for his organ, Clotilde Ruiz, had a daughter who also was so moved that her mom was being saved by a stranger, that she decided to offer her kidney, too.
This same pattern of selfless donation continued until six different strangers offered their kidneys to patients at Chicago’s Northwestern Hospital who were in need of transplants. All had been negative matches for loved ones or friends, but were moved through compassion to help another.
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On Wednesday, all the people involved in the rare 12-person kidney swap met each other in one room for the first time—and hugs, tears, and laughter filled the air.
Cooper the one who began it all, says she hopes the story will encourage more Americans to become living donors as 100,000 people are currently on the national kidney waiting list in the U.S.
She said she just wanted to be “A Good Samaritan for a day,” and six people will feel a lifetime of gratitude for that.
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Mindfulness is the ability to pay attention to your current experience—both the internal and external—without judgment. Practicing mindfulness allows us to make wiser choices and pursue healthier and more beneficial avenues in life. Had I learned them earlier in life, I would have taught my kids the valuable life lessons that I’ve gleaned from over fifteen years of mindfulness study and practice. Here are 10 of those lessons, based on my new book, “Forty Things I Wish I’d Told My Kids”:
Most of us allow our happiness to be ruled or dictated by the events that happen to us. When the stock market goes down, we do poorly on a test, or our taxes increase, we feel sad, sometimes for days afterwards – but it does not have to be that way. Our experience of life—and our happiness—results from events and from our response to those events. Our response can dramatically impact our mind state and our happiness regardless of the way life breaks for us.
Most of what we worry about never comes to pass—probably well over 90%. But we let our internal lives—and our happiness—be dictated by the anxiety that is created by imaginary events that will never come to pass (or if they do, they will not be anywhere near as bad for us as we imagine). This is unnecessary if we can be mindful and change our thought patterns.
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Our culture believes that to care about someone, or to plan for the future, we have to worry. We have to think obsessively about the someone or something, even if it is beyond the point where thinking is productive.
But in fact, the opposite is true; we should care for our loved ones and should plan for the future, but obsessive thinking –which is well past the point of constructive caring or meaningful planning– saps our energy, wastes are time, and is actually counter-productive to true caring and meaningful planning.
We live in a comfort driven culture, where the goal is to live a life of ease in order to escape from the difficulties of life. In reality, such a life leads to suffering, not happiness, as we can never truly succeed in that kind of misguided plan. Rather, it is more fulfilling to lead a life marked by meaningful, challenging goals and a mindful effort to achieve them. Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.
We hear this all the time as if someone else is always to blame for our anger. In reality, our anger is our chosen reaction to events. so our reaction need not default to anger when things do not happen to our liking. In fact, anger very rarely is a wise response to undesirable events: it almost always leads to more unfortunate occurrences.
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Many of us think of freedom as the ability to do what we want, unrestrained by external limitations – but is this really freedom? More likely, true freedom is liberation from our harmful habits, our unhealthy thought patterns, and our incessant inner critics. Choosing healthy behaviors fueled by a determination and discipline in building them into new habits is the path to true freedom.
Concrete is easy to pour, but then very difficult to retract and reshape after it is poured. In the same way, our words are easy to shape and control before they are spoken; but after they are released, their impact is often impossible to retract. Mindfulness allows us to choose our words carefully before we create situations that are challenging to repair.
In the United States, we are very fearful of making mistakes, which prevents us from pursuing new, ambitious aspirations. It is the wrong approach to life. We should view mistakes as inevitable parts of a learning process and embrace them as part of any worthy endeavor.
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Our happiness is often measured by whether we succeed in achieving external goals. And while we should put forth our best effort to reach the goals we set for ourselves, we will be happier if we anchor our goals to truly important values—like honesty, integrity, compassion, aspiring to do our best, and inspiring others to do their best. Doing this will allow us to be happy regardless of whether or not we have achieved each and every external goal we set for ourselves.
Your mind state is not determined by external events. You cannot run from them—in fact, if you do you will suffer more. But facing reality does not mean your happiness is dictated by the events that happen to you. The mind state that you bring to life’s challenges will determine your happiness far more than the nature of life’s events.
John Allcock is the co-founder and director of mindfulness at Sea Change Preparatory, a trailblazing academy that regularly integrates the practice of mindfulness into its curriculum. His new book, “Forty Things I Wish I’d Told My Kids”, shows adults and children alike how to use mindfulness to become more compassionate, resilient, and confident.
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If you’re mourning the end of the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, you might like these games of skill involving a long-haired Dachshund.
Takao showed off his thinking abilities earlier this week when he successfully maneuvered a maze of plastic water bottles that was erected by his owner.
In the videos posted to his Instagram page, the elegant pup can be seen carefully meandering through the maze.
Despite knocking over one of the bottles in a moment of doubt attempting to turn around halfway through the obstacle course, Takao displays his persistence.
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In the second maze, he completes the course with a perfect score – although his Papillon sister Chloe is not quite so elegant.
For the grand finale, he confidently dashes over a “ski jump”.
Well done, Takao!
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Quote of the Day: “Everything has it’s wonders, even darkness and silence—and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” – Helen Keller
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Single mother-of-two Monique Hall thought she was just being called to another ordinary pizza delivery – until a local church invited her to come up on their stage.
Pastor Wilfredo De Jesús of New Life Covenant Church in Chicago had spent the month of February encouraging congregants to honor strangers by performing random acts of kindness.
In order to be a leading example of his preachings, the pastor ordered a pizza delivery to the church’s address.
Hall, who works as a delivery driver for Domino’s, arrived at the church doors and became confused as to why she was being asked on stage.
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The pastor then placed $100 into her hand as a tip for the delivery. Then, he asked ten more congregants to contribute to the tip as well.
People kept piling cash into Hall’s hand until she was eventually moved to tears. When she left the church, she was not only carrying a basket full of money, but she was also given a Bible and gift bag for the road ahead.
Becoming an ambassador for the moral of the story herself, Hall paid the kindness forward, sharing the tips with her fellow delivery drivers.
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“I definitely wasn’t expecting it, but I knew that I had been struggling for a long time being a single parent…especially trying to make ends meet,” Hall told WGN. “So when they did that, I was overwhelmed and I was shocked. I felt so loved by them – all I could do was cry.”
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There are few things better in the world than the smell of popcorn, cotton candy, and a glittering show, but one circus in Illinois creates a special level of elation – by adding delightful dogs.
A pair of pit bulls named Junebug and Rosie Ray are the stars of the Midnight Circus; an evening production in Chicago’s parks that features clowns, acrobats, aerialists, and rescue dogs.
The Midnight Circus performance is special not just because it raises money for city parks – it also helps to fight negative stereotypes about pit bulls.
The co-founder Jeff Jenkins met Junebug at an anti-dogfighting training event that he was teaching. Jenkins could tell that she was being mistreated, so he convinced the pup’s owner to let Jenkins adopt her.
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Rosie Ray, a pit bull from an animal shelter, “was loud, wild, and showed all the signs of a puppy who had not been socialized, trained… She also had huge sweet eyes and that intangible quality that says ‘I’m your next family member.’”
Since Rosie and Junebug joined the circus, the show follows a pattern in which Junebug plays the rowdy actress who steals Jenkin’s hat and playfully runs around while Jenkins tries to catch her. Then, Rosie Ray breaks out and tears through the obstacle courses like a lightning bolt.
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The playful pups are naturals at entertaining and serve as the circus’ finale. 100% of the ticket proceeds go to parks in the Windy City, which has raised almost $1,000,000.
The Midnight Circus has also visited correctional facilities where Rosie Ray and Junebug help to “build bridges” among the residents and encourage honest conversations about how to better take care of rescue dogs.
“Dogs are great healers for finding common ground because they’re unbelievably faithful and they love you unconditionally, which is a great lesson for us,” Jenkins told the Chicago Tribune.
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Quote of the Day: “No matter what age you are, or what your circumstance might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life has a meaning.” – Barbara de Angelis
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After a father gave a good-natured response to a text from a wrong number, donations have started pouring in for his son’s cancer treatment.
It all started when a woman named Syd accidentally texted Tony Wood with a picture of herself wearing an evening gown in a department store.
Wood, who is a father of six kids in Spring Hill, Tennessee, responded to the photos by saying: “I believe this message was intended for someone else. My wife isn’t home, so I couldn’t get her opinion, but the kids and I think you look stunning in your dress! You should definitely go with that one!”
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Not only that, but he also sent a photo of his kids all giving a reassuring thumbs up.
Syd’s friend Mandi Miller posted the exchange to Twitter where it immediately went viral.
Syd accidentally sent pics of her dress to the wrong number and this was their response ? pic.twitter.com/SWmcqSFiqh
— Mandi Miller ❂ (@bbymandi) March 8, 2018
Shortly after Miller posted the photos, social media users found that there had been two people missing from the photo of the happy family. Wood’s wife and his son Kaizler had both been at the chemo clinic when the photo was taken.
Kaizler lives with leukemia; a kind of cancer that affects blood and bone marrow. For the last 26 months, the Wood family has been trying to raise money for Kaizler’s chemo treatments.
Before the tweet of the accidental text went viral, the last donation that was made to the GoFundMe page was from four months ago. Then, a Twitter user posted a link of the crowdfunding page to social media earlier this week – and the donations have been pouring in ever since.
“Some Twitter users joined my son’s Facebook group and took the initiative to post the GoFundMe link themselves,” Wood told Good News Network. “It has been insane! The last I checked we’ve had over $19,000 donated since this all started.”
Over the course of the last few days alone, the funding page has now raised over $35,000.
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Wood says that he first created the campaign 26 months ago because – even though most of Kaizler’s treatment being covered through Medicaid – the disease still came with its fair share of money problems. Although the most recent slew of donations has ensured that he and his family won’t have the same issues in the future.
“All of our financial struggle has come from loss of time at work, travel, and all the other myriad expenses associated with fighting this disease.
“I saw some comments on various articles where people were talking about how awful it was that we had to worry about this situation due to our healthcare system. When we were at Children’s Mercy, their setup combined with Medicaid has taken care of all of our medical expenses in that regard.”
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Wood still expresses his gratitude for the internet’s outpouring of support. Kaizler, on the other hand, is apparently pretty unfazed by the whole thing.
“I don’t think Kaizler really realizes all of the attention he’s getting. We brought it to his attention, but he’s 6, so it was pretty much a ‘oh, that’s cool!’ response,” Wood told GNN.
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Brandon Stanton, the mastermind and photographer behind the Humans of New York series, has made GoFundMe history by raising over $1 million for Rohingya refugees in just 4 days.
The money will be used to build housing for the thousands of refugees crossing into Bangladesh from Myanmar.
According to Stanton’s GoFundMe page, each house will cost roughly $630 to build and can hold a family of six. The houses will be assigned to the most vulnerable families based on their status with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
“The houses we are helping to build are special. They are made of bamboo. They have two bedrooms, which will allow a small degree of privacy and dignity for large families. They have a kitchen area. These things sound simple, but under the current conditions, they represent a huge leap in comfort and security.”
Stanton created the fundraiser in partnership with Love Army, a collaborative charity organization made up of YouTube creators, actors, and celebrities. The group was created in March 2017 by social media star Jerome Jarre as a means of raising money for the Somalian famine. They have also raised $9 million for the heroes of the Las Vegas shooting.
Since creating the organization, Jarre has “quietly spent the last several months on the ground in Bangladesh” helping with the refugee crisis.
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GoFundMe says that the campaign has also become one of the fastest campaigns to raise $1 million in the company’s history.
“Love Army has partnered with the American Refugee Committee and local NGOs such as OBAT Helpers to make sure that every dollar is spent in the most effective way. The houses are being built by refugees themselves, so even the labor costs are funneled back into the community. All of Love Army’s overhead costs are covered through privately sourced funds, which means 100% of your donations will go directly to the construction of houses!”
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A no-kill Illinois animal shelter now has more armchairs than a furniture store thanks to an adorable 10-second clip that has gone viral.
The Knox County Humane Society in Galesburg posted a plea on social media asking for viewers to donate their old armchairs so their dog and cat residents could have comfy places to sleep while they wait for their forever homes.
Not only that, but they supplemented the request with a quick video depicting three of their canines – Mickey, Tango, and Goober – lounging in some elegant chairs.
“The shelter pets absolutely love their chairs! If anyone has any older chairs they no longer want, please think of the shelter pets!” read the caption for the video.
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Since posting the pawesome video, the shelter has received dozens of chairs, all of which will go towards housing their animal residents. The Galesburg shelter can reportedly hold up to fifty cats and fifty dogs.
The shelter workers first got the idea for the scheme when they gave a pup named Buster Brown the job of guarding the front desk. While he was posted in the lobby, Buster refused to leave his spot on a chair.
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The volunteer staff liked the idea of being able to keep their animals comfortable while they lived in the kennels – so they reached out on social media.
Thanks to their successful furniture campaign, other shelters around the country are asking for similar donations.
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In honor of International Women’s Day, the Indian government has just launched a line of biodegradable sanitary pads that will soon be sold to women of all ages and demographics.
The “Suvidha” pads, which will be sold for Rs. 2.50 a pop ($0.15), are going to be made available in 3,200 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi centers across the country.
The centers are a part of the country’s Department of Pharmaceuticals campaign to make medications and prescription drugs available to the masses for affordable prices.
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The cheap, oxo-biodegradable napkins will especially be welcomed by underprivileged women who have voiced their dissent towards India’s 12% tax on feminine hygiene products in the past.
According to NDTV, Ananth Kumar, the Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs, said: “This affordable sanitary pad will promote hygiene, ease of disposal as well as keep the environment clean.”
The pads will be released into stores nationwide on May 28th – which also happens to be World Menstrual Hygiene Day.
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Earlier this week, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill was honored with his own spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In addition to being joined by George Lucas and Harrison Ford from the original sci-fi franchise, Carrie Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourde and Kelly Marie Train from The Last Jedi also attended the ceremony.
Ford, who also has a spot on the Walk of Fame, teased his old co-star with the opening of his speech by saying: “There was a lot more people that showed up for my star… a lot more.”
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Ford praised Hamill by calling him “a master of his own life” and “a quiet, sincere, honest person”.The Indiana Jones hero also made a point of solemnly mentioning the absence of Carrie Fisher, who passed away at the end of 2016 from cardiac arrest.
Hamill, who was the final speaker of the ceremony, said: “I haven’t been this speechless since The Force Awakens.”
“From Jedi to Joker and back again, it’s been a fantastic ride. Thank you so much and may the force be with each and every one of you.”
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