Spend the day bowing to everyone you meet – both upon greeting them and when taking your leave. By bowing, you are reminding yourself to Honor others as brothers & sisters. We all have pains and joys. We have all done amazingly wonderful deeds and we have all either perpetrated or enabled great evils. Remember […]
Pause every hour today to focus for a few moments on either someplace “liminal” (the apparent boundary between two apparently separate entities or regions) … Gaze at the line of the horizon. Look for the line boundary that separates light from shadow. Hear the silence between others’ words &/or the space between the notes of […]
Go to a kindergarten or an elementary school (any grade 3rd or lower) and ask to volunteer for (or at least sit in on) a class. Ask the children questions about what is Important to them and – most importantly – Listen to their answers … If so inclined, ask the teacher to share stories […]
Eat no food all day today, from waking this morning to going to sleep at night … Hint: drink lots of green/herbal tea and water. Donate the quantitative equivalent of all the food you would have eaten to a local food bank. Bonus Activity: While fasting today, choose to buy breakfast, lunch, & dinner for […]
Today, buy a gift certificate for three (3) movie tickets and give it to the next homeless person you meet thereafter. Bonus Activity: Buy four (4) movie tickets for a show this evening. Take one friend with you and find two homeless people who want to see the show, and all of you go together.
Go to a local airport, train station, or bus terminal and offer to help stressed travelers carry their bags. Keep offering until someone accepts your offer
Take a few moments to list all the things that you currently feel “forbidden” from doing. Find three (3) of them that you can perform without harming anyone else and quietly do them anyway – “forbidden” or not … Feel free as well to invite passersby and witnesses to join you.
Wander around town today until you find and feed three (3) expired or expiring parking meters – and feed them anonymously.
Pause this morning to consciously stretch for five (5) minutes. Take off your shoes and “scrunch” your toes into the floor/carpet. Interlock your fingers, raise your arms over your head, and turn your palms to the sky. If there is a bar from which you can hang, do so three times (each time for 30 […]
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