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David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 18:45:16 JST David August
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1. Screenshot of a post by John Perricone Jan 1, 2022: Several years ago I invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: "EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES." We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students: "Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness - - a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door -- you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe." This is my hope for you for the New Year - - that by your smallest acts of kindness, you will save an other's world.
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