The Chinese symbol for crisis is composed of 2 characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. The Dalai Lama makes a case below for how these polarized times contain "the seeds for personal excellence and spiritual advancement...The solution lies in understanding the appropriate way to disagree with others, even when we are treated with hatred." - Ameeta
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" - Abraham Lincoln
Editor's Note: The Chinese symbol for crisis is composed of 2 characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. The Dalai Lama makes a case below for how these polarized times contain "the seeds for personal excellence and spiritual advancement...The solution lies in understanding the appropriate way to disagree with others, even when we are treated with hatred." - Ameeta
Kindness In the News
This Indiana coffee shop serves up positivity with inspirational quotes, and it rewards customers who have performed kind deeds with free coffee.
A KindSpringer traveling in France saw an unfamiliar flat peach variety. While trying to buy only one peach, a Muslim woman in the shop came over and gifted her 4 of the flat peaches.
Akala's hip-hop poem looks at current conflicts and still retains hope: "The only way you can change anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy."
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