How noisy (with LOVE, of course) can we be? Can we activate a movement in the next 12 days to encourage 1,000 people to make $10 donations, using the power of social media?
This is more difficult than it sounds, and will take COMMITMENT on places like Facebook, twitter, and online sites, but the energy we can cultivate will be more powerful than we can imagine! For those of you who don't think your $10 is enough or your voice is enough, I invite you to experience the shift, from a place of divine, radiant, unique, enthusiastic, inextinguishable love.
This doesn't mean you can't give more if you wish. By all means. If you want to give $20, $50, $100, $1000, and be contributing for 2, 5, 10, or 100 people, as always my gratitude for you and your contribution is available and abundant, and I thank you always. But if your strengths currently lie more in the energy/networking/shout it out elements, more so than financial, this one's for YOU.
Will you help??? With excitement? For 12 days?? Namaste.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Mandela's Words of Wisdom
Today I will take my inspiration directly from the words of one of the most beloved, revered, and respected men on this planet, as I work to help manifest his hopeful vision of a peaceful and well South Africa.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela
Namaste.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela
Namaste.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
WORLD AIDS DAY
Did you know that today is WORLD AIDS DAY, designed as a day to draw together, across international lines, and do what we can to PREVENT, and one day ELIMINATE, this horrible disease.
I don't need to elaborate how vital this is, or spend time breaking down stereotypes long proven wrong: we know that HIV/AIDS can affect ANYONE, regardless of race, class, religion, morality, age, socioeconomic status, sexual preference, or gender. We know that every person infected by this disease is someone's son or daughter, and is here for some larger purpose in the scheme of our world, and that every person's life has value. If we can find one solution to prevent one new infection this year, World AIDS Day 2010 will not be in vain.
In the early 1980s we knew of 40 cases of HIV/AIDS Worldwide. Today that number is roughly 40 MILLION, and 30% of those infected reside in South Africa ALONE. This is due to many factors of course, but clearly many of them point to one area that has been sorely neglected: PREVENTION. To prevent this disease, people must be educated about methods of transmission, ways to protect their body, and be instilled with a belief in the worth and value of their lives.
Every single project being supported by Off the Mat's fund raising efforts will assist in HIV/AIDS prevention: the children's home, school library, Earthchild classroom, and GOLD mentoring program will all help the children of District 6 in Cape Town to foster healthy choices and knowledge of self care and prevention. The halfway house will give a safe and supportive environment to those struggling with addiction to prevent needle transmission. The bakery will employ those adults in the halfway home and feed the children in the children's homes. These projects are all aimed at creating a more long-term effective solution and providing a healthy outlook for generations of Cape Town's youth. And we will ALL have a healthier, happier world as a result. Win, win, win, win, win.
If you are blessed today with life, with health, and with the abundance to give SOMETHING toward this cause, of any amount, please know in the depths of your heart that you have made a CONTRIBUTION, and are helping to create a better, safer, more vibrant and alive world. Thank you, and Namaste.
I don't need to elaborate how vital this is, or spend time breaking down stereotypes long proven wrong: we know that HIV/AIDS can affect ANYONE, regardless of race, class, religion, morality, age, socioeconomic status, sexual preference, or gender. We know that every person infected by this disease is someone's son or daughter, and is here for some larger purpose in the scheme of our world, and that every person's life has value. If we can find one solution to prevent one new infection this year, World AIDS Day 2010 will not be in vain.
In the early 1980s we knew of 40 cases of HIV/AIDS Worldwide. Today that number is roughly 40 MILLION, and 30% of those infected reside in South Africa ALONE. This is due to many factors of course, but clearly many of them point to one area that has been sorely neglected: PREVENTION. To prevent this disease, people must be educated about methods of transmission, ways to protect their body, and be instilled with a belief in the worth and value of their lives.
Every single project being supported by Off the Mat's fund raising efforts will assist in HIV/AIDS prevention: the children's home, school library, Earthchild classroom, and GOLD mentoring program will all help the children of District 6 in Cape Town to foster healthy choices and knowledge of self care and prevention. The halfway house will give a safe and supportive environment to those struggling with addiction to prevent needle transmission. The bakery will employ those adults in the halfway home and feed the children in the children's homes. These projects are all aimed at creating a more long-term effective solution and providing a healthy outlook for generations of Cape Town's youth. And we will ALL have a healthier, happier world as a result. Win, win, win, win, win.
If you are blessed today with life, with health, and with the abundance to give SOMETHING toward this cause, of any amount, please know in the depths of your heart that you have made a CONTRIBUTION, and are helping to create a better, safer, more vibrant and alive world. Thank you, and Namaste.
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