How toxic ideas about maturity become a barrier to human virtues like understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, kindness and charity. Every culture on Earth has some version of the concept of becoming an ‘adult’….
Kindness
via University at Buffalo: BUFFALO, N.Y. – Empathy is among humanity’s defining characteristics. Understanding another person’s plight can inspire gentle emotions and encourage nurturing behaviors. Yet under certain circumstances, feelings of warmth,…
Should this procedure be made mandatory? Via the Huffington Post: A woman developed “hyper empathy” after having a part of her brain called the amygdala removed in an effort to treat her…
A peace offering from our aquatic brethren? Discovery reports: On 23 occasions over the past several years, wild dolphins were observed giving gifts to humans at the Tangalooma Island Resort in Australia. The…
Via We Are Change:
Last year while I was traveling through Europe blindly, not knowing a single person or where I would stay, amazing strangers opened up their homes and lives to me in beautiful acts of kindness. The most memorable of strangers was French activist and We Are Change Paris member Joel Boujassy.