Soil, Soul and Society

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November 17, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. - Wendell Berry - Soil, Soul and Society Nearly 50 years ago, Satish Kumar walked from India to the United States for peace, starting at the grave of Mahatma Gandhi and ending at the grave of John F. Kennedy. He walked without money, trusting in the kindness of strangers to support him. "Peace comes from trust. Wars come from fear." He advocates making peace with soil (nature), soul (yourself) and society (others) because the future well being of humanity and the earth is dependent on a new world view in which the care of the planet, nourishment of the soul and the nurturing of the human community are integrated. { read more } Be The Change Contemplate your peace index with soil, soul and society. Seek a way to improve one aspect today. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Man & Dog: A Picture that Moved the World 10 Worst Listening Habits -- and Their Cure The 3 A's of Awesome Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time The Untapped Power of Smiling A Guide to Finding Your Passion How to Change When Change Is Hard The 'Before I Die' Project DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 122,577 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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The Poorest & Most Generous President in the World

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November 16, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo Da Vinci - The Poorest & Most Generous President in the World Jose Mujica, president of Uruguay, has been described as the world's poorest and most generous political leader; he donates about 90% of his salary to charities, lives in a modest house at his wife's flower farm, and drives a 1987 VW Beetle. Uruguayans know him as "Pepe" and just about everyone in the country agrees that, in everyday life, he's a citizen like any other, except he doesn't have a bank account and has very few debts. { read more } Be The Change Look around your home or workspace today, and see if you can simplify your life by five material possessions big or small. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Secrets of the 100-yr-old Marathoner Today You, Tomorrow Me The Man Who Left Hollywood For His True Calling Homeless Kid Wows Korea Pilot Holds Plane for a Dying Child Mr. Rogers at the Emmy Awards A Missed Flight & A Connection Found The 29-Year-Old Stockbroker Who Saved 699 Lives DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 122,558 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body

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November 15, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty. - Patch Adams - Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body "Talking with Dr. Ted Schettler is probably unlike any conversation you have had with your physician. Raise the topic of diabetes or dementia, and Schettler starts talking about income disparities, industrial farming, and campaign finance reform. The Harvard-educated physician, frustrated by the limitations of science in combating disease, believes that finding answers to the most persistent medical challenges of our time-- conditions that now threaten to overwhelm our health care system-- depends on understanding the human body as a system nested within a series of other, larger systems: one's family and community, environment, culture, and socioeconomic class, all of which affect each other. " { read more } Be The Change "In the participatory universe revealed by quantum physics, our consciousness can actually change the material world -- including our bodies and our state of health." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News How We Can Change Our Minds The Most Vital Lessons for Starting Over How To Trick Your Brain for Happiness 7 Practices to Cultivate Compassion 9 Simple Steps to Improve Your Health 25 Reasons to Embrace Criticism 8 Weeks to a Better Brain What the Internet Does to Your Brain DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 122,524 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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The Action of Light

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November 14, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Love is something that if you give it away, give it away, you end up having more. - Malvina Reynolds - The Action of Light "The working class daughter of a Jewish mother and Sicilian father, Joan Di Stefano was working to help with the bills at fourteen. A few years later she was "slinging drinks" to pay tuition for her classes at the San Francisco Art Institute. At seventeen, while working at Macy's in downtown SF, on her lunch-breaks she often visited a bookstore around the corner. That's where she picked up a copy of Thomas Merton's No Man Is An Island. As she told me, "I would read a couple of pages and keep thinking about it. So that book always kind of stayed with me." Joan's story is unique and over forty years later, her connection with Merton led to quite an astonishing series of events..." { read more } Be The Change Don't be afraid to follow an impulse of service, especially in small ways. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The 3 A's of Awesome Top Ten Kindness Stories for the New Year Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time 10 Keys to Happier Living No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World 11 Amazing Thank You Notes Over Ten Thousand People Attend His Funeral The Power of Self-Compassion DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 122,509 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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