Aug 20 2012: Amazing example! Makes me think how often we tend to be ignorant of the gift of life...we seem to worry about small small things when all that should matter is to enjoy ever single moment as we never know what may happen tomorrow!
Thanks for sharing your personal story as it is very inspiring and best wishes for a happy future!
Aug 19 2012: "in which shape was it and how it is now? did we live better before or after these people?
(after all these people, we still wake up and work 9 to 5 and pay taxes ) - do you call this Change?"
We still wake up and go to work because of our own choice...imagine the lives of millions of people who had to go and work not by choice but by force, when you work and still your family has nothing to eat! When you get up and are forced to work like a slave!
I do believe that these people have changed the world as they did not free their own countrymen but also people like me around the world who still carry on living their lives thinking about their ideas!
Aug 15 2012: Dalai Lama once said that Acquisitions would not produce true happiness as we had never the biggest boat, house or car and will be stuck in a perpetual materialist cycle. But if we gave something away to those who are less fortunate. We had get nothing in return but a warm feeling in our heart and the knowledge in our brains that we had made the world a better place"
Aug 15 2012: I believe that if each one of us does good for one person at least and then promise him to do the same for someone else and make him promise to do the same for another....
This can create an unending chain which ultimately can result in a worldwide movement.
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A reply on Conversation: "There maybe tough moments maybe for, you know, an hour or a couple of days potentially, but life goes on and you get a second chance."
Thanks for sharing your personal story as it is very inspiring and best wishes for a happy future!
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(after all these people, we still wake up and work 9 to 5 and pay taxes ) - do you call this Change?"
We still wake up and go to work because of our own choice...imagine the lives of millions of people who had to go and work not by choice but by force, when you work and still your family has nothing to eat! When you get up and are forced to work like a slave!
I do believe that these people have changed the world as they did not free their own countrymen but also people like me around the world who still carry on living their lives thinking about their ideas!
A comment on Conversation: Do you think one person can change the world? Can it be you?
A comment on Conversation: Do you think one person can change the world? Can it be you?
This can create an unending chain which ultimately can result in a worldwide movement.