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What can you do to build a better world? Sharing stories from her pioneering career dedicated to tackling poverty, Jacqueline Novogratz offers three principles to spark and sustain a moral revolution. Learn how you can commit (or recommit) to creating big, positive change in your lifetime — and give back more to the world than you take from it. "It is in the darkest times that we have the chance to find our deepest beauty," Novogratz says.
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There is high need for reform of UN
Agree UN, must be open to chat, live in footage.
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
No don’t allow anyone, play, or take advantage, put on cross, as an example. — bud@
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“So there is a lot of talk about change, but not a lot of real change. To be really responsible here, you must look at your life, your beliefs and your expectations and assumptions, to really see what is going to work in the real world, in the world you see today, and in the change you see coming over the horizon. It is dishonest to demand change and to expect change, when you yourself are not willing to change. To say, “Well, I will change if other people change,” is dishonest. That is placing the responsibility beyond yourself. That is dishonest. You have to change even if other people do not change. That is your commitment.
Real change is a change of heart. It is a change in the way you feel about things and a change in the way you see yourself and your life. It is a change not only in perception, but in what you choose to do as a result. That is the real change.
Otherwise you are facing a situation where people want to keep what they have and have more. Whether their needs are authentic or not, that is their position. They will elect leaders of the land who they think will give them what they want, even if it leads the nation to ruin. Any leader who claims that they are a candidate of change really will have to ask people to change the way they see themselves and to have a change of heart because that is the level at which real change takes place.
To merely change one’s circumstances, to change where one works or lives, or even to changes one’s relationships, does not effect a change of heart. You can be married repeatedly and be the same person with the same expectations, the same issues, the same behaviors, the same judgments against others and the same attitudes against yourself. Here you are going through great effort to change your circumstances, thinking it is going to change your experience significantly, but there may be no change of heart here—a fundamental change in how you see yourself and others and what you value.”
A quote from a great teaching from The New Message from God, titled *Real Change* – read or listen to the whole teaching here – newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/the-reformation/real-change
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Find yourself, meditating, mute not ingesting, breath taking, drinking to become fifth element. — bud@
Love kigali rwandi
Ok, I read this wrong. I was going to answer that it makes me 5,29 when I take change from the tip jar
What it takes to make change – dont see youtube comments and go do some work
must, read, see, feel, everything, to begin ponder, start any change.
“I’m gonna make a change, for once in my life.”
im going to change watching the same BS videos
It’s gonna feel real good
So profound. Jacqueline has prompted much thought and moral reflection for me on this day and moving forward. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Listening here thanks sharing great one
You have inspired me to make better choices bless your heart;)
How to make a change: buy someone chicken nuggies and make their day
“We don’t change in the easy times, we change in the difficult times”
“Cynics don’t create the future” is a reminder I needed. Makes me think of “They don’t build statues for critics”.
We have an excess of hot takes and opinions and moral grandstanding and not nearly enough action. I will try to tune out the noise and focus more on unambiguous positive action.
What we think they need, is rarely what they need.
It’s hard and troublesome to see the reality of others whitout our’s as a reference. When someone realise this, now the changes are possibles.
With freedom comes an equal amount of responsibility for the freedom of others.
Yes yes yes same old story. White man or woman decides to go to a “poor” or otherwise vulnerable population and create systems that “help empower them”, all while you’re collecting profits off their backs due to their ignorance.
People stop and think for a second why some goes to a disadvantaged foreign country to setup an operation/organization. Only those who have some ties to a larger network of people or organizations could trust/risk setting up a bank in foreign lands.
What disgusts and saddens me most is that these entrepreneurs actually convince themselves that they themselves are doing good and helping when in reality they part of the bigger issues I’m society.
I’m not anti-capitalist and do understand business profits help fund research and development efforts that ultimately lead to new technology, tools, etc. I just want people to stop going to foreign lands and stealing, cheating, deceiving, killing or otherwise taking advantage of the locals, and claiming to be helping.