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Here is your Monday STORY on: LOVE: Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. Love can also mean an intense sexual attraction to someone. If we forget the personal feeling for a moment, how would we describe someone who shows love to the world? Perhaps a good example would be that you offer the same affection to everyone, whether a neighbour or an enemy. If you met a stranger, then you would offer the same help regardless. Of course this feeling of offering love to the world is one that many would think they readily apply each day. Like many moments of sadness a spiralling effect is created. If you are hurting, or you are suffering regular bouts of pain, your temperament is more unstable than normal; and your ability to offer love diminishes. Alternatively if you experience a few moments of selfishness, your greed to serve than mood increases and the chance of you offering any love also diminishes. Not me! Cries the reader... Unless you are very saintly, selfishness is difficult to shrug off. In some small way, each day, there is evidence of a selfish action. Forgive me for suggesting it can be eliminated, but selfishness can be weakened. To see it and understand it is half the battle. Have you ever been in a similar situation to this merchant in the next story? A HASIDIC STORY A wealthy Jewish merchant treats a poor old man with rudeness and disdain as they travel together on a train. When they arrive at their common destination, the merchant finds the station thronged with pious Jews waiting in ecstatic joy to greet the arrival of one of the holiest rabbis in Europe, and learns to his frustration that the old man in his compartment is that saintly rabbi. Embarrassed at his disgraceful behaviour and distraught that he missed a golden opportunity to speak in privacy to a wise and holy man, the merchant pushes his way through the crowd to find the old man. When he reaches him, he begs the rabbi's forgiveness and requests his blessing. The old rabbi looks at him and replies, "I cannot forgive you. To receive forgiveness you must go out and beg it from every poor old person in the world." (by: Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R., The Sower's Seeds). QUOTE: 'Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.' (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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Happy to pay half the subsidies
10 Feb 2012 at 12:08pm It?s not about generating electricity, not anymore. The owners of those monstrous windmills scattered through the hills and canyons of the inland Northwest can brag about how much power they produce ? when the wind blows ? but that?s not their primary business. The windmills exist to reap federal tax credits, and to sell energy credits to utilities ordered by law to buy them. In the subsidy ...Read more...
Schedule 'happy birthday' posts to Facebook friends
10 Feb 2012 at 12:03pm Nobody likes to be that person who forgets a friend's birthday. Facebook is great for avoiding awkward moments like these, but sometimes having a notice on Facebook about a birthday isn't enough. After all, getting a daily reminder of your brother's birthday a week in advance might make you forget about it by the time his big day arrives; or you may not even log on to Facebook to see the ...Read more...
Documentary shows to how to be truly happy
10 Feb 2012 at 11:54am KUSA -The desire and continued search for happiness is universal. However, many people find themselves falling short. In the new documentary HAPPY, Director Roko Belic sets out to answer and bring truth to this life-long goal.Read more...
Africa: The Global Fund At Ten Years - Not a Happy Birthday
10 Feb 2012 at 11:40am [GFO] "These past 12 months have been the Fund's most difficult to date, so the anniversary celebrations were rather muted. Whether the Fund's eleventh year will be more successful depends on how well the Fund learns from what went wrong during 2011."Read more...
Marine 'happy to be home'
10 Feb 2012 at 11:22am KAHULUI - Marine Lance Cpl. Garrett Kekoa Dow was patrolling a village in Afghanistan with other Marines and Afghan police when enemy forces opened fire on the group several weeks ago. "I got hit," said Dow, who is an infantryman and dog handler.Read more...
How To Be Happier
10 Feb 2012 at 9:48am New documentary, Happy, directed by Roko Belic, explores the science of happiness and how people across cultures find it.Read more...
It?s OK to love Jeremy Lin
10 Feb 2012 at 1:00am Yeah, we're in. We won't be using any puns pitched around his last name, as we had the chance to do in the preceding sentence, but we're more than happy jumping on board the Jeremy Lin bandwagon. Even if he only took it to the lowly Nets, the up and down Jazz, and the pathetic Wizards. And, via Get Banged On , we now have Lin ( who put together a 23-point, 10-assist game in New York's win over ...Read more...
EDITORIAL; Curious Contents of the Digital Library
13 Oct 2011 at 12:00am Perhaps you haven't read Mrs. Molesworth's ''Uncanny Tales'' or C. Schweigger's ''Schweigger on Squint.'' Perhaps you missed ''How to Be Happy Though Married'' or the Farmers' Bulletin devoted to ''House Rats and Mice.'' No worries. They are available in 24 digital formats, including versions to suit just about any e-book reader you own. These...Read more...
ESSAY; The Rap on Happiness
31 Jan 2010 at 12:00am 
Smart people often talk trash about happiness, and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries -- just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it. The fashion is to bemoan happiness studies and positive psychology as being the work not of the Devil (the Devil is kind of...Read more...
THE WEEK AHEAD | JAN. 3- JAN.9
3 Jan 2010 at 12:00am Television Mike Hale With a new decade beginning, PBS gets introspective, offering a pair of three-part series that delve into human nature. ''THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE,'' Monday through Wednesday at 9 p.m. on most stations, is hosted by Daniel Gilbert, the author of ''Stumbling on Happiness'' and a psychologist at Harvard, where he is known as Professor...Read more...
