Feel Good Friday #14
After watching this video, I am humbled. I find it amazing that some people just “get it”. It is even more amazing when the person getting it is 5 years old. The world is shifting my friends. I am hoping it will shift in the way that will have no more hungry people, especially in the nation that has so much abundance. Prepare to be inspired.

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1639

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Feel Good Friday #13

Feel Good Friday #13

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. --Buddha

Economics. It’s what is on everyone’s mind these days. We have been conditioned to think of economics of some cut and dried, boring subject, all about numbers and statistics, reports and graphs.

But really economics is people. An old saying goes like this: A recession is what happens to someone else, when it happens to me it’s a depression. The current situation is happening to me. It’s happening to you. To us, people living our day to day lives.

Here’s a feel good story about the altruism of economics. It turns out we humans are not motivated only by the almighty buck. As a matter of fact we might even be more motivated by doing the right things, by creating connection with one another, or by fairness. Enjoy.

Go forth and do something kind for no reason other than to do something kind!

Here’s the link:
http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=3716
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Feel Good Friday #12

Feel Good Friday #12

Way back in the 80’s a rock band named Toto had a hit record (that’s what we listened to before cds!) called Africa. You have probably heard the song, it’s been redone a number of times. But this is a rendition that redefines the song.

Perpetuum Jazzile is an acapella jazz choir from Slovenia. They have amazing voices. But it is the beginning of the song that is truly amazing. Somehow, using their hands and feet they simulate the sounds of a rain storm. The sound of rain drops begins very soft so don’t turn your volume up.

A really cool way to spend 6 minutes this morning. Just listen and smile!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjbpwlqp5Qw

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Feel Good Friday #11

Feel Good Friday…#11

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God. --Karen Armstrong
The golden rule exists in almost every culture…do to others what you want them doing to you. As the Dalai Lama has said…”My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.” Compassion for others, for the world around us, is critical in the age we are living in. Here is someone doing the work, outside of government, outside of religion, yet inside the community of humankind.

Karen Armstrong won a prize to do anything she wanted and she created a charter for compassion.
Here is her video: http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=3758
And here is the website: http://charterforcompassion.org/

Sometimes good ideas do move out of the realm of good ideas and into reality!

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Feel Good Friday #10

Feel Good Friday #10
I am always amazed at stories like this. Here is another young man with an amazing ability and a will and a zest for living we should all aspire to. Enjoy this video. I hope you will feel good and be inspired at the end of it!
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=350
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