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Celebrating Humanity

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Make Your Own Natural Herbal Lip Balm
By: Sarah Quirino

Conservation Through Innovation
By: Yolanda Wessels,
photography courtesty of N/a’an ku sê in Africa

Marlice Elretha Jansen van Vuuren
Amazing Videos
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Marlice Hugging and Kissing a Lion
N/a'an ku sê Volkswagen Ad - Cheetha Rescue
Marlice Drinking With Lions
Marlice Teases Wild Cheetahs
Saving Africa
A Vision for Africa: A film by Philip Selkirk
Eland & Zebra Arrive at N/a'an ku sê

Is 2012 the
End or the Beginning?

Is your glass half empty or half full?

Choose to be optimistic. It feels better. - Dalai Lama

Life Vest Inside
Because Kindness Keeps the World Afloat
A MUST SEE VIDEO!

Watch as the camera tracks an act of kindness as it's passed from one individual to the next and manages to boomerang back to the person who set it into motion.

HIGHLIGHTS

Homemade Gifts Under $5
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This Amazing World of Ours
Awesome Video

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Amazing Video About Life on Earth

What is The Collective Consciousness?

Collective consciousness was a term coined by the

French sociologist Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) to refer

to the shared beliefs and moral attitudes which operate

as a unifying force within society.

I'd Love To Change The World
A Girl With a Dream

The Beatles
Love is All You Need

Free Hugs in Sondrio, Italy
Top Video Pick for December

Say Something Nice
"I love you all"

The Power of "ONE" Rock
Random Kindness Ebb and Flow
Submitted by Susan Kimberley K
Inspired by Mother, Pam Rose,
in Memory of Sarah and Zach

In memory of those we've lost, paint a peace rock and leave it for others to see or pickup.

Whose Going to Save The World?
Recommended By: Thomas Killip, Music Video

Life is a Gift and the Only Appropriate Response is Gratefulness
By Louie Schwatzberg
Must See Video - Words Below
Submitted by Filomena Rosati

If you do nothing else, but to cultivate gratefulness to the great gift of this unique day. If you learn to respond as it was the first day and the last day, you will have spent this day very well.

Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open. That incredible array of colors that is constantly offered to us for pure enjoyment. Look at the sky. We so rarely look at the sky. We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment with clouds coming and going. We just think of the weather and even with the weather we don't think of the many nuisances of weather. We just think of good weather and bad weather.

This day right now is unique weather maybe a kind that will never exactly in that form come again. The formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same as it is right now. Open your eyes. Look at that.

Look at the faces of people you meet. Each one has an incredible story behind their face. A story that you could never fully fathom. Not only their own story, but the story of their ancestors.

We all go back so far and in this present moment, on this day, all the people you meet, all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world, flows together and meets you here like life giving water, if you only open your heart and drink.

Open your heart to the incredible gifts that civilization gives to us. You flip a switch and there is electric light. You turn a facet and there is warm water and cold water and drinkable water. It's a gift that millions and millions in the world will never experience. So these are just a few of an enormous number of gifts to which we can open your heart so I wish you that you will open your heart to all these blessings and let them flow through you ... that everyone whom you will meet on this day will be blessed by you. Just by your eyes, your smile. By your touch. Just by your presence. Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you. Then it will really be a good day.

John Barry
Somewhere In Time

The Invitation
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Canadian Teacher and Author

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dreams
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched
the center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your
fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story
you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another
to be true to yourself.

If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand on the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes."

It doesn't interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after a night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

© 1995 by Oriah House, From "Dreams Of Desire"
Published by Mountain Dreaming, 300 Coxwell Avenue, Box 22546, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4L 2A0
Please click here for more information about Oriah's book.

Declan - Tell Me Why?
Listen to the children!

Redemption Song
Awesome Music Video

We Are The World - Haiti
Collectively Inspirational and Life Altering!

We Are The World Original
Historic!

Quotes of The Month

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss

Calm is the ability to manage your emotional reactivity.
- Brene Brown

‎The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.
The challenge is to silence the mind.
- Caroline Myss

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. - Deepak Chopra

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