This has got to be one of the most moving stories I have ever encountered.
She was 18, and wasn't feeling right about starting college yet. She decided to take a gap year to travel the world. She found herself in Northern India, working with refugee children from Nepal. One thing led to another and she was opening a home and school for these children in Nepal.
In addition to this, she started noticing how poorly the women were being treated at home, she opened a center for the women to get together and learn life skills and also just to support each other.
Of course it's better to hear the story straight from Maggie, the one who lived it,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/09/24/maggie-doyne-the-26-year-old-mother-of-40-kids.html
http://www.dailygood.org/story/536/talking-good-with-maggie-doyne-rich-polt/
I am so touched by her story.
If we could all have that courage to follow our inner most compassion. Our inner calling and whispering. How could that affect our home, that is, earth?
I loved the way she referred to the people on planet earth. Our human family. That's exactly what we are. At 26, she has adopted 40 children. What would it feel like to have 100% ownership of everything you don't stand for in this world, and 100% ownership to change it with love and compassion alone.
It really inspires me, to delve deep. How can I live more compassionately? How can pursue my beautiful dreams of how the world could be only through actions of love and passion.
Her dream is to see the day where all children have their basic needs met.
If I delve deep into my heart, I see the same image, I'd like to see no suffering. And I have to lump all beings into this as well. perhaps I can call it our earth family. Our family of all beings. I'd like to see a cage free world. Where animals and humans love and live peacefully alongside each other.
It's interesting because I know that there are many who say, "how can we even begin to think about compassion towards animals, when we can't even have compassion for ourselves, our family, our people, or any other people of the world." Maybe this is true. Maybe I'm being Naive to think that growing compassion in one aspect of ones life, can grow compassion in all others.
Just because you have a soft spot for animals or nature, doesn't mean that you don't have a sense of responsibility or love for humans! Just because you only have 1 child, doesn't mean you won't have enough room in your heart to love more. There is always more love.
What is your dream? What can you do today to act on that? What breaks your heart to see in this world? What initial step could be taken to change one life, to help 1% or .00000001% of that problem. Go ahead fearlessly and ferociously with the power of love within you. And never ever ever give up. Be the change you wish to see. Allow the empowerment of divine compassion to take you forward.
She was 18, and wasn't feeling right about starting college yet. She decided to take a gap year to travel the world. She found herself in Northern India, working with refugee children from Nepal. One thing led to another and she was opening a home and school for these children in Nepal.
In addition to this, she started noticing how poorly the women were being treated at home, she opened a center for the women to get together and learn life skills and also just to support each other.
Of course it's better to hear the story straight from Maggie, the one who lived it,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/09/24/maggie-doyne-the-26-year-old-mother-of-40-kids.html
http://www.dailygood.org/story/536/talking-good-with-maggie-doyne-rich-polt/
I am so touched by her story.
If we could all have that courage to follow our inner most compassion. Our inner calling and whispering. How could that affect our home, that is, earth?
I loved the way she referred to the people on planet earth. Our human family. That's exactly what we are. At 26, she has adopted 40 children. What would it feel like to have 100% ownership of everything you don't stand for in this world, and 100% ownership to change it with love and compassion alone.
It really inspires me, to delve deep. How can I live more compassionately? How can pursue my beautiful dreams of how the world could be only through actions of love and passion.
Her dream is to see the day where all children have their basic needs met.
If I delve deep into my heart, I see the same image, I'd like to see no suffering. And I have to lump all beings into this as well. perhaps I can call it our earth family. Our family of all beings. I'd like to see a cage free world. Where animals and humans love and live peacefully alongside each other.
It's interesting because I know that there are many who say, "how can we even begin to think about compassion towards animals, when we can't even have compassion for ourselves, our family, our people, or any other people of the world." Maybe this is true. Maybe I'm being Naive to think that growing compassion in one aspect of ones life, can grow compassion in all others.
Just because you have a soft spot for animals or nature, doesn't mean that you don't have a sense of responsibility or love for humans! Just because you only have 1 child, doesn't mean you won't have enough room in your heart to love more. There is always more love.
What is your dream? What can you do today to act on that? What breaks your heart to see in this world? What initial step could be taken to change one life, to help 1% or .00000001% of that problem. Go ahead fearlessly and ferociously with the power of love within you. And never ever ever give up. Be the change you wish to see. Allow the empowerment of divine compassion to take you forward.
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