Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

International Children’s Day is celebrated on June 01. The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, proclaimed June 1 to be International Children’s Day in 1925 to draw attention to children’s issues.

The United Nations’ (UN) Universal Children’s Day, which was established in 1954, is celebrated on November 20 each year to promote international togetherness and awareness among children worldwide.

Therefore, both days are celebrated in different countries.

Did you know there is an International Day for Street children?

How can we get involved? What can we do to reduce the number of street children?

Here is what a child your age can be like and what she can stand for. ( an old video  but an actual subject)

Cullis-Suzuki ( the girl in the video above) founded the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), a group of children dedicated to learning and teaching other youngsters about environmental issues.At age 12, Cullis-Suzuki raised money with members of ECO to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Along with a group of children, Cullis-Suzuki presented environmental issues from a youth perspective at the summit. The video has since become a viral hit, popularly known as “The Girl Who Silenced the World for 5 Minutes”. Then, she  was honored in the United Nations Environment Programme’s  Roll of Honor.

Later, Cullis-Suzuki graduated from Yale University  with a B.S. in ecology .

Info above from Wikipedia

We also celebrate The international Day of Eradicating the child Poverty  because:

“Poverty is the worst form of violence”– Mahatma Gandhi. ♥

Did you know that The Center for Compassion and Altruism Education from Stanford University (US)  wants to bring the tools of neuroscience to the study of empathy, compassion, and altruism?

Senior Teachers at Stanford Offer New Ways to Cultivate Compassion :

“Compassion is at the core of our common humanity and has ensured the survival and thriving of our species over millennia. For this reason, the Centre for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University School of Medicine was founded in 2008 with the explicit goal of promoting, supporting, and conducting rigorous scientific studies of compassion and altruistic behaviour. Founded and directed by Dr. James Doty, Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, CCARE is established within the Department of Neurosurgery. To date, CCARE has collaborated with a number of prominent neuroscientists, behavioural scientists, geneticists and biomedical researchers to closely examine the physiological and psychological correlates of compassion and altruism.”

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“Studies show that the parts of the brain activated by compassion are the very same ones that lead to feelings of pleasure, elevation, and to greater physical health and longevity.”

“Simply learning to mentally recategorize one another in terms of commonalities would generate greater empathy among all of us — and foster social harmony in a fairly effortless way.”

His Holiness Dalai Lama said, “The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.” In May 2013, he said that the Compassionate Cities campaign is one of the most important activities on the planet.

A number of measurable results show an increase in social and emotional competence and empathy, and a reduction in aggression. The Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington is conducting a study to evaluate brain and behavioral development in 5-year-olds  and 9-year-olds .

Scholar Michael Norton contends in a TED talk that brain studies show that money can actually buy happiness -but….. if you spend it on someone else:

Another scholar, Karen Armstrong, won the TED prize for 2008 with her speech about creating a global network to promote Compassion among all religions. She also wrote a good book “12 Steps to a More Compassionate Life”. She created a Golden Rule to be respected in this endeavour.

Did you know Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine?

Who am I tolerating that I really don’t want in my life?

Pastele este cea mai importanta sarbatoare crestina a anului, pentru prima data fiind sarbatorit in jurul anului 1400 inainte de Hristos.

Desi multi sarbatoresc si astazi Pastele, pentru multi el nu mai are nimic de a face cu Dumnezeu, este doar un prilej de mancare si bautura.

Sarbatoarea Pastelui poate fi asociata cu primavara. Retrezirea naturii la viata simbolizeaza noua viata pe care crestinii au castigat-o prin crucificarea si Invierea lui Iisus. Pastele crestin este similar cu doua traditii antice: una evreiasca si alta pagana. Ambele traditii sarbatoresc Invierea, trezirea la viata.

Pastele crestin deriva din Pastele evreiesc, numit Pesach, cuvantul de origine al cuvantului Pasti.

Pentru prima data, Pastele a fost sarbatorit in jurul anului 1400 inainte de Hristos. In aceasta data, evreii au parasit Egiptul cu ajutorul lui Dumnezeu. Scriptura in cartea Exod (Iesirea) din Vechiul Testament ne ofera instructiunile date de Dumnezeu pentrusarbatorirea Pastilor in timpul lui Moise. Evreii din antichitate isi aminteau de faptul ca Dumnezeu i-a salvat din robia in care se aflau in Egipt.

Cu ocazia iesirii din Egipt, cand au sarbatorit pentru prima data Pastele, toti evreii trebuiau sa ia un miel si sa il sacrifice. Apoi, cu sangele mielului erau unse ramele de lemn ale usilor de la casele in care locuiau acestia. 

In ceea ce priveste crestinii, Dumnezeu a reinnoit legamantul facut cu israelitii, de data aceasta nu printr-un om, (Moise) ci prin Fiul Sau, Iisus Mesia. Legamantul cel nou nu mai este un legamant facut doar cu evreii, ci cu toate popoarele, care vor sa primeasca iertarea pacatelor prin jertfa lui Iisus Hristos. Legamantul cel vechi purta sigiliul sangelui unui miel care trebuia sacrificat de Pasti dupa instructiunile date de Dumnezeu.

La Cina cea de Taina, in noaptea cand a fost tradat, inainte de a fi prins si arestat, Domnul Iisus a instituit sarbatoarea Pastelui nou testamental, dupa porunca ce I-a fost data de Dumnezeu.

De Pasti se sarbatoreste Invierea lui Iisus Hristos, fiul lui Dumnezeu. Duminica – a treia zi dupa Scripturi- femeile purtatoare de mir au gasit mormantul gol. Mormantul era gol pentru ca Hristos Inviase.

More info here

Did you know pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians ?

Follow your dreams even if that includes going through some nightmares!

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