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The Two Sides of Grace

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 16, 2026 "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. What you love is a sign from your deeper self of what you are to do." — Joseph Campbell The Two Sides of Grace At twenty years old, Christopher Lowman sat down with an Ayurvedic doctor in London who did nothing but listen to his pulse -- and then began describing his inner life with an accuracy that had no business being possible. Something shattered in that moment. And his near-perfect GPA as well as his path to law school went with it. What followed was not a plan but ...

This Week in DailyGood ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 14, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 14, 2026 "When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." — Lao Tzu This Week's DailyGood Digest This week's stories brought us to diverse corners of the world through the lenses of inner growth and systemic change. We tuned into disarming moments of resilience across Africa with the rediscovery of rare bongos in Kenya's Maasai Mau forest and a pangolin pup's rescue in a cardboard box in Johannesburg. In Uganda, a monk's remarkably improbable journey illumina...

A Carpenter and the Boy He Saved, 30 Years Later

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 14, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 14, 2026 "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Carpenter and the Boy He Saved, 30 Years Later Two carpenters were on a second floor with no stairs yet built in. That detail alone tells you something about the urgency of what happened next. In 1987, Brad Jachna and his friend Kip Kerfoot jumped from that unfinished floor and ran when they spotted a toddler, Tom Copeland, motionless in a Florida pond. Brad slapped the boy's back until he heard him catch his first breath of air -- an...

How Our Lineages Mirror the Mycelial Network

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 13, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 13, 2026 "No organism on Earth has ever survived alone, not one, not across the more than three billion years that life has been finding ways to persist on this planet." — Ashley Glowiak How Our Lineages Mirror the Mycelial Network Ashley Glowiak invites us to understand ourselves as part of living networks rather than individuals -- "nodes" carrying forward what ancestors survived, loved, and left unmetabolized. She compares, "When a node in a fungal network is struggling, depleted, isolated, unable to access what...

Hope for the High Seas

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This week's inspiring video: Hope for the High Seas Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jun 11, 2026   Hope for the High Seas   The "high seas" are the 64% of our oceans that are not protected by any national law. Supporting 90% of life on the planet, the protection of this glob...

Monet's Blurred Vision Saw More Clearly

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 11, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 11, 2026 "It takes soft eyes to look at a world packed with people scrambling to survive, and see beyond the frenzy to the way we keep reaching for relationships that reflect our interdependence..." — Parker Palmer Monet's Blurred Vision Saw More Clearly Claude Monet, going blind in his later years, kept painting -- and what he rendered wasn't the world falling apart but, as poet Lisel Mueller saw it, a world revealing its hidden wholeness. Parker J. Palmer takes that image and turns it into something urgent: a meditation...

Uganda's First Buddhist Monk

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 10, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 10, 2026 "Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves." — Henry David Thoreau Uganda's First Buddhist Monk A boy raised Catholic in Kampala flew to India in 1990 to earn an MBA and returned, seven years later, with a shaved head, brown robes, and a large Buddha statue that customs officials mistook for witchcraft. What Bhante Buddharakkhita built from that improbable homecoming — a meditation hall, a school, a clinic, and a borehole bringing clean water to a lakeshore vi...