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How I Learned to Live With Passion (article: Elite Daily)

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How I Learned to Live With Passion (article via Elite Daily)

My grandmother Brenda was born in the mountains of Alabama in 1942. By the age of 19, just months after giving birth to my mother, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Mental illness was not discussed in the 1950s and 60s like it is today. It was a taboo subject in rural areas of the South, which left many people shunned, hidden away and accepting the few treatment options that were often just radical experiments.

My grandmother was one of these hidden individuals. Brenda was institutionalized her entire adult life, bouncing around between mental hospitals and group homes in Alabama and Tennessee, until the day she died in 2012 at 70 years old.

Can you fathom being mentally and physically confined in a way that is completely beyond your control for 51 years?

Read the Rest of Brenda’s story here -> http://elitedaily.com/life/learned-live-passion-grandmothers-struggle-schizophrenia/

Connected: The People of Venice Beach, Los Angeles

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Rosalie Bardo spent a day authentically embracing the locals of Venice Beach, California.

Perspective: If you could give one piece of advice to the world, what would it be?

“Often the simplest things are the most powerful. We are all CONNECTED and I genuinely believe we should never stop absorbing knowledge from those around us. Observe: Gain from another’s experience. We all have something unique to share, so go out and engage the world with compassion, patience and generosity.” -Rosalie Bardo

Produced by Bardo Entertainment (P) 2014

Join The Fight: Spread Awareness : Human Trafficking

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Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery. It affects every country around the world, regardless of socio-economic status, history, or political structure. Human traffickers have created an international market for the trade in human beings based on high profits and demand for commercial sex and cheap labor. Trafficking affects 161 countries worldwide.

An estimated 20.9 million men, women and children are trafficked for commercial sex or forced labor around the world today. 

Utilizing the power and influence of music, film, and celebrity –> MTV EXIT is a cutting edge and innovative media campaign that aims to raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking and exploitation.

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 We need YOUR help to encourage greater awareness, stimulate a global conversation, and inspire change.

Human trafficking has become the second most profitable crime in the world creating a $32 billion industry: more than Nike, Google and Starbucks combined.

Victims do not agree to be trafficked – they are tricked – lured by false promises – or forced. Many are kept as slaves; starved,  punished and beaten into submission.

The trafficker takes away the basic human rights of the victim: the Freedom to move, to Choose, to Control his/her body and mind, and to Control his/her future.

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Trafficking in CHILDREN

 Trafficking of children is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of children for the purpose of exploitation.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children states that there are 100,000-300,000 American born children likely to be victims of human trafficking each year.

The International Labor Organization estimates worldwide that there are 246 million exploited children aged between 5 and 17 involved in debt bondage, forced recruitment for armed conflict, prostitution, pornography, the illegal drug trade, the illegal arms trade, and other illicit activities around the world

Join MTV EXIT on GOOGLE+ , Twitter & Facebook

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BE A VOICE FOR THOSE WITH NO VOICE. Abolish Slavery. Take Action .

Other Great Sources to help Spread Awareness and Join the fight against Human Trafficking

http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/international-trafficking

National Human Trafficking Resource Center          

Call 1-888-373-7888 or text BeFree (233733). The National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) is a national, toll-free hotline, available to answer calls and texts from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year.

(The NHTRC is a program of Polaris Project, a non-profit, non-governmental organization working exclusively on the issue of human trafficking. They are not a government entity, law enforcement or an immigration authority.)

http://www.endhumantrafficking.org/

http://dontsellbodies.org/

http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/

http://www.castla.org/homepage

http://www.unicefusa.org/work/protection/child-trafficking/

http://www.worldvision.org/our-work/child-protection?campaign=11935146&gclid=CNSLj-3x87gCFa9eQgodWBwALw

Success

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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

(Picture: Malibu Beach, Los Angeles, CA)

Training The Mind

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By thinking of all sentient beings as even better than the wish-granting gem,

for accomplishing the highest aim, may I always consider them precious.

                   Wherever I go, with whomever I go,may I see myself as less than all others, and from the depth of my heart,

may I consider them supremely precious.

May I examine my mind in all actions, and as soon as a negative state occurs,

since it endangers myself and others

,may I firmly face and avert it.

                                                    When I see beings of a negative dispositionor those oppressed by negativity or pain,

 may I, as if finding a treasure, consider them precious, for they are rarely met.

Whenever others, due to their jealousy,

revile and treat me in other unjust ways,

may I accept this defeat myself,

and offer the victory to others.

                           When someone whom I have helped,or in whom I have placed great hope, harms me with great injustice,

may I see him as a sacred friend.

 In short, may I offer both directly and indirectly all joy and benefit to all beings,

my mothers, and may I myself secretly take on all of their hurt and suffering.

May they not be defiled by the concepts of the eight mundane concerns,

and aware that all things are illusory, may they, ungrasping, be free from bondage.

by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa (1054 – 1123)

Love & Light

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Passion

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”  ― Susan Sontag

Words Of Wisdom

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*An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life…

He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is evil—he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego. The other is good—he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.”

They thought about it for a minute, and then one child asked his grandfather…

“Which wolf will win, Grandfather?”             

The Elder simply replied, “The one you feed.”*

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