The Kingdom Outside Us!

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...

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...

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...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 09, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 09, 2026 "When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." — Lao Tzu Why Dopamine Isn't the Problem The popular concept of a "dopamine detox" rests on a fundamental misunderstanding: dopamine isn't the villain of compulsive behavior, but the engine of all goal-directed action, from scrolling to meditation. Neuroscientist Kent Berridge's research reveals something more useful: there is a crucial difference between wanting (the drive toward something, powered by dopamine) and liking ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 07, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 07, 2026 "We all have within us the seeds of compassion to heal ourselves and the world around us." — Lobsang Phuntsok This Week's DailyGood Digest In a week woven with stories of resilience and connection, our daily inspirations reminded us of the power within to affect change around us. We explored  seeds of compassion within and around us, as Lobsang Phuntsok reminds us of inner work's potential to heal both ourselves and our world. Along similar lines, The Wisdom Collective invited us to imagine ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 07, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 07, 2026 "We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife." — Steve Irwin A Pangolin Pup Found in a Cardboard Box Inside a car boot in Johannesburg, a three-month-old pangolin pup lay curled in a cardboard box, a cabbage leaf beside him — the trafficker's well-meaning but useless gesture toward feeding an animal whose diet consists entirely of ants and termites. That detail somehow says everything about the vast distance between the illegal wildlife trade and the natural world it plunder...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 06, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 06, 2026 "What I’ve learned is that speaking out is good… there’s no looking back. It makes your life better." — Abi, 10 The Schools Giving Children a Say in How They Are Run When a six-year-old suggests a "buddy bench" for lonely classmates and watches it become real, something shifts - not just in the schoolyard, but in how that child understands their own place in the world. Smart School Councils, a UK charity founded by former teacher Greg Sanderson, has built a simple platform that gives even the youngest pupils a ...