We Have Everything We Need Already

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May 8, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. - Hermann Hesse - We Have Everything We Need Already "My grandmother never went to school, she never knew how to read or write, and she was such a wise and brilliant woman. She was incredibly creative, could come up with songs and dances and games right on the spot. She had tons of practical knowledge on herbal remedies and healing practices, and she was the most environmentally conscious person I know. Nothing ever went to waste; she would always make something out of anything. For her, everything was connected, and all life was important, from the ants, to the dogs, to the cows, to human beings. Because of her, I started asking about and looking for more of that kind of grounded knowledge." Shilpa Jain shares more about her work with Shikshantar, an India-based people's movement which aims to regenerate "living and learning communities" grounded in diverse cultures and languages. { read more } Be The Change Be a mentor to the next generation by befriending and spending time with kids in your neighborhood. Share your work with them, invite them to see a documentary, visit a local farm, or just take a walk. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Man & Dog: A Picture that Moved the World Man Builds Fairy Tale Home -- For $4700 How to Change When Change Is Hard A Guide to Finding Your Passion Barbara Kingsolver On How to Be Hopeful 10 Life-Changing Perspectives On Anger 29 Lessons From Travelling the World Bill Gates vs. Mother Teresa DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 127,502 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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Julia Cameron on the Creative Life

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May 7, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso - Julia Cameron on the Creative Life "Time is like a river. We wash our bones like stones. Time is not the answer. Time is not the quest. Time is where we journey while we learn the rest. Washing in the river of the self." Over twenty years after publishing "The Artist's Way", a bestseller guide to bringing out one's creative self, author Julia Cameron has taken many risks. In this interview with Sounds True, she speaks courageously of her own risks -- and why risk taking is a necessary part of the creative process. { read more } Be The Change Take a page from "The Artist's Way" and practice writing a morning page. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time 7 Ways to Have More by Owning Less Man Builds Fairy Tale Home -- For $4700 The Beautiful Fragility of Language The One Thing They Carried With Them 5 Classic Commencement Speeches There's More to Life Than Being Happy Bill Gates vs. Mother Teresa DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 127,452 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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How Imagination Shapes Reality

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May 6, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso - How Imagination Shapes Reality Have you ever imagined something so vivid, so profoundly tangible and seemingly a part of you, that you weren't sure if it was a dream or reality? Well, it may just be both! Novelist and writing teacher, Gabriel Cohen, unites science and spirituality, and provides insight on how "a growing body of research supports what spiritual contemplatives have known for millennia -- that the human capacity for imagination not only shapes our minds, but also weaves the fabric of reality itself." { read more } Be The Change Today, use your imagination as a tool to transform a negative experience or thought into a positive one. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The One Thing They Carried With Them How One Teenager Used Her Life Savings 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World 5 Classic Commencement Speeches The Power of Self-Compassion Barbara Kingsolver On How to Be Hopeful 10 Life-Changing Perspectives On Anger 29 Lessons From Travelling the World DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 127,420 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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Trees: The Alternative Cathedral

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May 5, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. - David Wagoner - Trees: The Alternative Cathedral When I feel off-balance, shaken by the blows of life or mired in the inertia of not caring, I seek contact with nature, which I call a primary source of re-centering. Contact with nature offers a gift of presence, helping us to open up to the world around us, rather than pursue distracting thoughts or emotions. Even for an urban dweller, walking in a park fills one with a sense of one's roots in the natural world, an experience beneficial to all of us. Seashore, mountains, meadows, woods and desert all invite us to discover our own nature in theirs, to meet their presence with our own. But trees hold a special presence." This author's prose-poem on trees shares more. { read more } Submitted by: http://www.dailygood.org/story/424/trees-the-alternative-cathedral-patty-de-llosa/ Be The Change This week you could look at any aspect of nature with new eyes: as a force for centering yourself. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World Man Builds Fairy Tale Home -- For $4700 How to Change When Change Is Hard The Beautiful Fragility of Language Inside Tim Tebow's World of Kindness The 'Before I Die' Project 5 Classic Commencement Speeches 29 Lessons From Travelling the World DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 127,399 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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