The Compassionate Instinct

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November 5, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength. - Albert Schweitzer - The Compassionate Instinct Although many question whether true compassion exists at all, recent studies are showing that compassion is deeply rooted in our brains, our bodies, and in the most basic ways we communicate. Dacher Keltner -- a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley -- shares more about the compassionate side to human nature in this article. { read more } Be The Change Tune into your innate sense of compassion today as you interact with other people, and see if the nature of those interactions changes. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News There's More to Life Than Being Happy 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World The College Course That's Changing Lives The Science of Love The Difference Between Listening & Hearing 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,438 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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The Healing Power Of Joy

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November 4, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. - Victor Borge - The Healing Power Of Joy Laughter is a natural medicine - it lifts our spirits and makes us feel happy. Laughter is contagious. It brings people together and helps us feel more alive and empowered. Laughter therapy aims to use the natural physiological process of laughter to help relieve physical or emotional stresses or discomfort. There are over 70 organizations committed to the healing power of laughter around the world. Watch as Care Clowns, Clown Doctors, and Joy activists in countries across the globe delight sick children and their care givers with giggles, bubbles, love, and joy. { read more } Be The Change Check out the Red Nose Alliance. Perhaps you'd like to become an Agent of Joy? :) { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love There's More to Life Than Being Happy The College Course That's Changing Lives A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Power of Place: Photos From Around the World The Generosity Paradox DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,394 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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How We Die: The Art of Living & Dying Meaningfully

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November 3, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace There are those who forget that death comes to everyone. For those who remember, all quarrels come to an end. - Buddha - How We Die: The Art of Living & Dying Meaningfully Sherwin Nuland writes about death, but not in the way that you might expect. He wants to clear the fog of the fear of death away from our eyes. Death, in his view, has everything to do with how we live. In his own words: "The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real measure of how we die. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that preceded them. Who has lived in dignity, dies in dignity." { read more } Be The Change It is in offering dignity to others that our own dignity is revealed. Make your day an offering of dignity to others. Reflect on how it feels inside. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love The One Thing They Carried With Them The Beautiful Fragility of Language The Difference Between Listening & Hearing 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,365 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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From Personal To Planetary Transformation

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November 2, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. - Plutarch - From Personal To Planetary Transformation Two million organisations are working to make a better world in spite of the negative factors that threaten to destroy us, according to Paul Hawken. The interdependence of all life is now an established scientific fact as it is now possible to connect all people in the world for the first time in human history. Yet, in 2007 three billion people barely manage to eke out an existence. Learn more about the ever widening gap... { read more } Be The Change As you go through each day this week, notice any manifestation of the gap between those who have and those who are forced to fight for survival. See if you can act in some way, big or little, to narrow it. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The One Thing They Carried With Them The Science of Love The Difference Between Listening & Hearing Relationships Are More Important than Ambition 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 6 Habits of Highly Grateful People Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Ladder to the Pleiades DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,371 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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