The Kingdom Outside Us!

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 16, 2026 "We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion." — Max De Pree Messages That Wash Away Every message Ella Joy Martinez writes disappears with the tide -- and that's exactly the point. The 13-year-old from Kaua?i, who has Down Syndrome and is nonverbal, has turned a family shoreline ritual into Sand Scribletz, a small business o...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 15, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 15, 2026 "Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are." — Rachel Naomi Remen The Listening That Heals For many of us, when someone else is speaking, our minds are busy. As we take in what they are saying, we may be quietly, and often unknowingly, holding court inside our own heads -- agreeing, disagreeing, comparing, di...

This week's inspiring video: Reuniting With His Savior Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Aug 13, 2026   Reuniting With His Savior   On any given day, we can change the life of another person without planning for it, asking for it, or being prepared for it.  Sometimes it j...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 13, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 13, 2026 "The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence." — Jiddu Krishnamurti A Supercomputer Pointed at Your Brain Randima Fernando spent seven years scaling mindfulness into schools and eight more advising Silicon Valley on humane design — which is precisely why it lands differently when he says meditation alone won't save you. Not because it doesn't work, but because the thing on the other side of your screen is, in his words, "a supercomputer pointed at your brain," running c...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 12, 2026 "Everything in the universe has a rhythm; everything dances." — Maya Angelou She Lost Her Memory, Then It All Came Back At fifteen, Ruth Brigandi woke up without language, without a name, without any sense of where her body ended and the world began. For four months, she existed in a state of pure, undifferentiated presence -- no emotions, no thoughts, no self. Modern medicine attributed it to inflammation in the pituitary gland. But what she describes is not frightening, exactly: "it was just a peaceful stage....

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 11, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 11, 2026 "If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." — Lilla Watson The Reductive Seduction of Other People's Problems In a world where young dreamers chase the intoxicating glow of "saving" distant lands, writer Courtney Martin issues a clarion call -- urging us to fall in love not with easy answers, but with beautiful complexity. She warns against the "reductive seduction of other people's pro...