tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16112748755293522822024-02-19T07:39:32.110-08:00Happiness in UkraineMartahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-60651596802443693582014-02-04T08:09:00.000-08:002014-02-04T08:09:10.288-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Життя іде, і все без коректур.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">І час летить, не стишує галопу.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Давно нема маркізи Помпадур,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">і ми живем уже після потопу.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">в які природа убереться шати.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />Єдиний, хто не втомлюється, –</span><br />
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-77597360276836175062013-12-01T05:27:00.002-08:002013-12-01T05:38:37.137-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tear off the label. Choose not to be victim. Turn your back on the government, its institutions, its merchandise, and its laws. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hard to be away from my nation in this moment, impossible to accept the fact that at this moment i'm an immigrant... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Those who love never hide, never run away, never accept the status quo...!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">P.S. I Love You, Ukraine! With all my prayers I ask God to protect, unite and give strength to all of us. </span><br />
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-63407219827002621422013-10-26T07:37:00.002-07:002013-10-26T20:35:10.423-07:00Leadership lessons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The attitude of leadership can be developed & applied even if you don't have an official leadership position. It's an attitude, a state of mind, it's a behaviour, it's a promise to do great things and take a full ownership towards everything you do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is leadership which I define.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Besides I believe leader is the one who:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) <b>Has a strong self-understanding and stays authentic</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2)<b> Is able to surround herself/himself with talented and smarter people than s/he and give them trust and freedom to fail</b> (R.Branson's approach)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Is in a state of flow</span> </b></span><br />
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-22403311475614948102013-10-19T08:12:00.000-07:002013-10-19T08:14:03.646-07:00When education can be more about ''mandatory'' subjects<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I feel so proud of what we are doing and the way we want to influence the world.<br />
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-13682114778309153572013-09-16T17:49:00.002-07:002013-09-16T17:49:53.487-07:00Confessions of a Lost and Tormented Soul<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>12 September 2013</i></div>
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I took a taxi back home today and like I always do, I asked the person who was driving the taxi the following:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“How are you?</em></div>
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And I got no reply…. Complete silence.</div>
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I looked in the mirror and I saw the driver looked a bit surprised, like he wasn’t sure if I was talking to him.</div>
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It happens a lot of times when I take a taxi and I assume it’s because they don’t expect you to care about them and how their day is going.</div>
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I continued to look in the mirror in the hope that he will look as well and realize I was talking to him and he did.</div>
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Because he saw me smiling and realized I was talking to him, he smiled back and replied:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Now that I look at you I am very fine.</em></div>
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and continued to smile.</div>
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He paused for a few seconds and then he asked:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Where are you from?”</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Do you have any children you have to take care of or are you alone?</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Romania” I replied.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I am from Romania and yes, I do have one kid to take care of.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Its my inner child. Very noisy and demanding but a good kid.”</em></div>
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We both started laughing.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You very funny. Very good entertainer.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You got me confused, you know?</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But it’s good to be funny. It keeps you young.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And are you working here or are you a student?” </em></div>
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to which I replied:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“No, no studying. I worked here but not anymore.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I will now continue to work on different projects but on my own.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I will follow my heart and see where it takes me.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Me and my heart are very good friends and I trust it will take good care of me..”</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I understand…” he said with a soft voice.</em></div>
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His tone of voice started to change.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“ I don’t hear my heart…</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I work hard but not enough money.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My day no busy. Not enough money. It’s hard…</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am tired of living this life.” </em></div>
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He paused…</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Maybe you should ask your God to help you.” I told him.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You can tell your God that you are ready to receive more money and that He should help you.”</em></div>
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to which he replied:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I talked to my God, asked him for money but I don’t think He’s there. </em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I never got an answer from him…”</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“But what would you like to do?</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I mean, if you could do anything what would you do?” </em>I asked.</div>
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To which he replied:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I would help people. I would go to orphans and I would help them.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And on their birthday… You know what I would do for their birthday?</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I would ask them what they want to receive as a gift and I would buy it for them.</em></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…..</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This would make me happy.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I would help people and give them money and I would also buy you a present for your birthday.”</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We both started laughing and then he continued:</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“But I don’t have money. </em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My God won’t help me and life is hard for me.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish I was a ghost you know?”</em></div>
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His voice started changing even more and I could feel he was getting very emotional.</div>
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I looked in the mirror and I saw tears coming down his face…</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I just want to be a ghost.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I could scare people and laugh. That would make me happy…</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I just want to be a ghost.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is this?!” and started pointing at his body.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“What is this?!</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t want to have this.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t need this body, this life…</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I work so hard, from 6 am to 8 pm, and still not enough money.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I could jump off a tall building but I won’t do it…</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are so many building here” and he started looking out the window…</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I could jump but I won’t.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I won’t do it.”</em></div>
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After that he was silent. We both were.</div>
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I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.</div>
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I had to take a few deep breaths before I could open my mouth again. I knew I should’t be silent and that I should say something, and I did:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You know, maybe you should ask your God a different question.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead of asking him for money maybe you should ask him to help you find your gift.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I believe we all come to this world because we choose to.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your soul chose to come to this planet and create something unique and beautiful.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you can find your gift you will be happy and you will make good money.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You might think it’s money that you want but I don’t think it’s money.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I think you want to be happy, to feel free. To help and to bring meaning into your life and of those around you.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You said you want to help orphans, to help people and make them happy.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you find and work with your gift, you will be able to help not only them but also yourself. </em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Money will come if you do what you love but its not about the money.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s about discovering your life purpose, your gift and then sharing that gift with the world.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That’s where real happiness comes from…</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I love to write and I know writing is my gift.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When I write, I go to this magical place and I become so blissful. In those moments I realize why I am here on this planet and why writing feels so good… It’s because writing is part of my life purpose. It helps me and it helps many of the people who read what I write.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing comes from the heart and even though I am not doing it for the money, I know that money will come…</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Talk to your soul. Ask your soul to help you remember what your gift is.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your soul chose to come here. You chose to be here.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just talk to your soul and trust that by doing so things will begin to change.”</em></div>
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Because I was so engaged in what I was telling him, I didn’t even realize we arrived at my destination.</div>
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He turned around, and with a big smile on his face said to me:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We have arrived my friend…</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thank you…</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You are a good person.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thank you for being in my taxi.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Have a good day, ok?”</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His energy was different and I was so happy to see him smile again.<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></em></div>
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He looked at me, shook his head, smiled some more, took his money and drove away… </div>
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“Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.” ~ Robert Martin</div>
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<a href="http://www.purposefairy.com/66064/confessions-of-a-lost-and-tormented-soul/">Source</a></div>
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-54504162748592867882013-09-03T05:12:00.001-07:002013-09-03T05:12:40.001-07:00Залишатись собою<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...у будь-якій ситуації, країні, з будь-якою людиною, командою... Бути собою з усім світом.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Так важливо зберегти свої цінності та сутність, не піддатись спокусі швидких перемог, тимчасових друзів, фальшивого багатства та надмірного споживацтва. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Де б ти не був пам'ятати, хто ти та звідки походиш. Як важливо у цьому великому та величному світі стати глобальним громадянином, водночас, бути українцем. Світ прийме тебе з радістю, подарує багато вражень, людей та нових барв. І так важливо у цьому розмаїтті можливостей та країн зберегти у собі свою власну основу, свою унікальну суть!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Пам'ятати про власну велику мрію та мету і працювати багато, щоб наблизитись до неї. Не збитись з власного великого шляху. Дисциплінувати себе. Обмежити те, що заважає рухатись до неї. Бути тим Самураєм чи Атлантом, який не здається і щосили штовхає колесо світу вперед.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="text-align: start;">"І скаже світ: - Ти крихта у мені.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Ти світлий біль в тяжкому урагані.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Твоя любов - на грані маячні</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">і віра - у наївності на грані.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Що можеш ти, розгублене дитя,</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">зробити для вселюдського прогресу?</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">- Я можу тільки кинути життя</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">історії кривавій під колеса.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Хоч знаю: все це їй не первина.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Але колись нап'ється ж до переситу!</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Захоче випити не крові, а вина</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">за щастя людства, за здоров'я всесвіту!"</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.984375px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Erich Fromm has become my teacher and my mentor. I can't stop sharing his ideas among my friends. How come his books & philosophy are not taught in schools and universities?!</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17.984375px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I enjoy him being a real global thinker. I enjoy how he puts the Human Being into the center of his studies - a weak, consumptive, afraid to love Human Being longing to get out to a better being. I enjoy him being a Christian yet appreciating and analyzing other religions and putting God into the middle of his philosophies. I'm amazed how simply he put all the complex philosophical findings and tough questions - simple, easy, understandable and enjoyable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.984375px;">Here are some quotes which i </span><span style="line-height: 17.984375px;">particularly</span><span style="line-height: 17.984375px;"> love, and have them printed out as my road-maps:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">''Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.''</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">''Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one o</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">bject of love.''</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">''If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.''</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each man is entitled with ''freedom to create and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine...'' </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">''Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.''</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">''Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.''</span></span></div>
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-60020487674400851772013-08-20T07:58:00.002-07:002013-08-20T08:34:09.426-07:00Protect your dream!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everything outside is pushing you forward,</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But no one feels like being pushed;</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But still,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's something deep inside you,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">something you love,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">something makes you wanna,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">something you are passionate about.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is the power drive you forward by yourself,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which makes you feel even faster and stronger</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">than the pushing from outside,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then you feel you're leading the speed</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">other than being bothered by it.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who can kiss you a life-long happiness,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">waking up and grasp the happiness you desire.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on the pursuit of happiness and your dream,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">how much courage you have to protect your dream.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life should be no excuse but,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lead your happiness and protect your dream!</span></b></span><br />
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-66009516574501868442013-08-03T08:03:00.000-07:002013-08-03T08:03:12.022-07:00Lemon tree<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, it always happens like this the book, film or video come in a perfect timing in your life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The questions and voices that keep ringing in your head, desperately asking <b>you start acting and living the life of complete realization, meaning and love</b>. Through your job, relationship, friends, every part of your life - the way of conscious being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So here is this video of Amir Ahmad Nasr talking of his way defining who he is, struggling to go his way and succeeding. In his 26s he has already written a book, became a CEO of Mindvalley-Arabic and is a thought-leader among arab youth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By sharing his achievements, i don't want to point that you are so bad, that haven't written a book or didn't become an entrepreneur (so far, i didn't become any of this). </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I believe every person has its timing in life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But i wanted to point the importance of going the conscious and meaningful way in life, where you achieve your complete realization as a person, gain satisfaction from what you are doing and know how do you contribute to our world. The way, where you truly become a lemon tree. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can discover the 'lemon tree concept' in this video:</span></div>
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-82647206253525846272013-08-01T13:59:00.003-07:002013-08-01T13:59:49.190-07:00Нова Людина Еріха Фромма<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Нещодавно потрапила мені до рук книга Еріха Фромма "Мати чи Бути?". Страшенно захотіла поговорити з ним вживу, поставити дуже багато запитань. Але, мабуть, такі люди й пишуть книги, щоб вони служили для нас тим єдиним цінним засобом спілкуватись з мудрецями цього світу та відкривати світ їхніми очима.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Так, зокрема, пан Фромм розкриває концепцію "Нової людини". Ось характеристики такої людини:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Готовність відмовитись від усіх форм володіння, щоб повністю БУТИ;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Відчуття безпеки, ідентичності і впевненості в собі, засновані на вірі у власне існування і на внутрішній потребі у прихильності, зацікавленні, любові і солідарності; ця віра мала б заступити бажання мати, володіти, панувати над світом, і, отже, бути рабом своєї власності;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Усвідомлення того факту, що ніхто й ніщо поза нами не може надати сенсу нашому життю, лише повна незалежність (зокрема й від речей) є умовою для плідної діяльності, спрямованої на служіння своєму ближньому;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Відчуття присутності тут і тепер;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Радість від служіння людям, а не від здирництва та експлуатації;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Любов і повага до життя в усіх його проявах, розуміння, що священним є життя і все, що сприяє його розквіту, а не речі, не влада, не мертве;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Намагання приборкати свою жадобу і ненависть, вивільнитись, наскільки можливо, з полону ілюзій;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Життя без ідолопоклонства й без ілюзій, оскільки, буде досягнуто такого стану, коли ілюзії перестануть бути потрібними;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Розвиток уяви, але не в сенсі втечі від нестерпних умов життя, а як засобу покласти край цим умовам і розпізнавати реальні можливості;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Відмова ошукувати інших і прагнення не бути ошуканим самому; можна зажити слави простодушного, але не наївного;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Дедалі глибше і всебічне самопізнання;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Відчуття свого єднання із життям і відповідно відмова від підкорення та експлуатації природи від її виснаження, намагання зрозуміти природу й жити з нею в гармонії;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Свобода, але не як свавілля, а як можливість бути самим собою: не вузлом зажерливих пристрастей, а тонко збалансованою структурою, яка будь-якої миті може зіткнутись з альтернативою: розвиток чи руйнування, життя або смерть;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Розуміння того, що зло й руйнування - невідворотні наслідки неправильного розвитку;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Розуміння того, що лиш небагатьом поталанить досягти досконалості з усіх цих пунктів, і водночас відсутність амбіційного прагнення "досягти мети", бо відомо, що такі амбіції - всього лиш інший прояв зажерливості й орієнтації на володіння;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Щастя всеосяжної любові до життя, незалежно від того, що нам судилось, бо життя як таке дає людині настільки велике задоволення, що не варто піклуватись про те, чого вона могла б а чи не могла б досягти.</span></div>
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-91300576783092467342013-07-15T12:10:00.002-07:002013-07-15T12:10:37.270-07:00Being young<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This saying constantly finds me. Probably because of the person i've recently met and who became my true friend. This is the message for all of us: young and old human beings. Never think that you are too young or old. <i>Better ask yourself what is the age of your soul?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">''Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.'' (Samuel Ullman)</span></span></div>
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-14707117630065156152013-07-06T13:20:00.002-07:002013-07-06T13:20:26.399-07:00Людське достоїнство<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Борис Акунін у своїй книзу "Аристономія" описує поняття "достоїнства" та намагається придумати правильніше, точніше вираження людського достоїнства. І глибоко обдумує це поняття. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">" Чим більше у людини розвинуте ВВД, тим нижча у неї здатність виживати"</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Володимир Федорін покинув журнал "Форбс", коли його викупив Курченко. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="userContent">Ось що Федорін сказав студентам напередодні викупу журналу:</span></span></span></div>
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" ...Читайте книги. Думайте. В ситуации выбора вам потребуеться
внутренний компас. Без книг и размышлений его стрелку будет мотать из
стороны в сторону.<br /> <br /> ... Не идите на компромиссы с совестью. Не
работайте с плохими людьми, не служите негодным идеям. Тут вам как раз
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's when you hang out with your friends not only to have fun and spend crazy times together, but when you:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">-> learn or read</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">-> meditate and discuss afterwards</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">-> start project </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">-> cook delicious food </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">-> raise uneasy topics and have not easy discussion</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">-> go in for sports</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">-> learn a new langage</span></span><br />
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Martahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640154208506908353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611274875529352282.post-39728924842708507042013-06-30T02:17:00.002-07:002013-06-30T02:17:54.782-07:00Just for a momentMeditate. Breathe. Think.<br />
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yesterday i watched an incredible movie - 'The Lady'. Somehow i can't stop thinking about it and the story of a tiny and beautifully strong woman with name Aung San Suu Kyi (short name Suu). </div>
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Suu was born in a small country Burma, which suffered severe regimes of military hunta, and the country was struggling a lot to find its way to democracy. Her father was a first Burmese leader to build the way to democracy, but he was killed, and the family had to move from the country. For 20 years Suu was living in Great Britain, raising her children, having a happy marriage with a British professor.</div>
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But the calling of destiny and her desparate country put her on the road to home, where she is needed, where her people trust her and give her their last hope. Suu becomes a leader of first democratic party in the country, travels and meets people of Burma, takes part in first elections. The regime of Burma doesn't recognize the results of elections, puts her under home arrest and doesn't let to see her husband and children. She stays under arrest for 20 years. Meanwhile her husband dies without a chance to meet his wife, she receives the Nobel Peace Prize and is recognized as the strongest woman leader in the world - Iron Orchid.</div>
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2) If you'd be asked to choose between <b>husband, family and your country</b>, what would you choose? This is very cruel question, and i wish noone ever to be asked it. <b>Suu chooses her country, and support of her family is the biggest gift of her life. </b></div>
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3) <b>We're all responsible for the well-being of our country.</b> Even if we're far away, even if we have scare resources. Our country needs our talent, our values, our leadership. This is the responsibility of a lifetime. I believe that being a global citizen we can be of 100% commitment to our motherland. This is a call of our grandparents and our heroes who left our country so beautiful for us. </div>
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I drink morning tea and have a small conversation with my friend and neighbour Ira. Then suddenly I see the quote at her cup. I'm amazed and the morning becomes more beautiful:<br />
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<i>To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave a world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I lived in the society of different, yet
wonderful people. I had a chance to
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<span lang="EN-US">The first is a luxury, big, modern financial
capital with many foreigners, a truly Asia’s
world city with , where everyone feels safe and comfortable. This is exactly how the city is branded and is as a great attraction to foreigner to come and live.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The second face of Hong Kong is the face of
people, who feel trapped in the speed of life, being scared of financial
issues, high prices for property, and ‘living for working’, because of the
competition. People are very smart and have amazing education. You
will be amazed by the English level here (I didn’t have any problems with
finding the place or buying things). So why do they let themselves being trapped in this speed? Being so
smart and kind? Or maybe my discoveries are not connected with the culture of Hong Kong, but the nature of life in a big city? </span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">P.S. Yesterday was rushing home in a heavy rain. A local girl ran to me, put me under her umbrella and walked all the way to the metro station with me, asking why didn't i take umbrella and telling that i could catch a cold. The girl didn't know me and i didn't ask her about help. She just wanted to help. So, sometimes the kindness doesn't have intercultural boarders :) </span></i></div>
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Kong. I’m leaving with a clear understanding that I have to move
on. I don’t feel sad or too emotional, yet, I feel honored and grateful of
being here and having this opportunity in my life. </span></div>
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Results.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Like many other AIESEC interns I came to Hong Kong with the big idea of changing the world and
making impact on everything I’m doing. Such grand-AIESEC words :)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;"></span><span lang="EN-US"> Yet they mean
a lot, and if many young people start thinking about the possibility to
make impact, a lot of things can be changed in the world. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I worked with passionate and extremely smart
people, who believed in the idea of social enterprise and devoted bigger part
of their life to it. During this time I interacted and educated 99 young
people. Every time I
had a feeling of fulfillment. It’s a bit hard to describe, but imagine after
you do 1 or 2-hours sports’ training. After it you have a feeling of being
completely tired, but have a big satisfaction and completeness. This is exactly
how I felt after each workshop. </span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">I would describe my another part of internship
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<span lang="EN-US">I was eating a lot of delicious Chinese food,
drinking all possible traditional drinks, allowing myself to eat as much as I
want. This is amazing feeling, I should admit (but will not admit how many
kilos I gained!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;">:) </span><span lang="EN-US"> If I feel happy eating all that
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<span lang="EN-US">I mentioned in one of my posts about how many
religious people I met here. This made a big impact on me: I returned to my
religious roots, which I neglected last year. I should admit that people here
treat religion not as a tradition, but because of their calling and need to believe
in God. So I started to visit church, pray and felt very happy about all these
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<span lang="EN-US">I wanted to devote time for learning. During 3 months I managed to read 6 different
books, and most important was working in a social enterprise, and discovered
business itself. I met people from different areas and working in different
spheres, interns, AIESECers and AIESEC alumna, and also I met people from so
many countries, with so many diverse attitudes and feelings, and mindset, and
cultures. Each of them was like a teacher for me. Yeah, it was intensive 3 months of
continious learning and development. Yet it's only the beginning.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I shall continue my thoughts here very soon. Indeed many of them need to be put here :)</span></div>
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<i>I think AIESEC exchange and life abroad are not only platforms to contribute to something big and useful in society, but also great place to change my life. Yes, we can't change the world immediately, but we can start from ourselves and make important decisions about our lives, our next steps in life and what is important for us. Thank you <a href="http://aiesec.org.ua/">AIESEC in Ukraine</a> and <a href="http://icehongkong.com/">ICE</a> for changing me and my life. Also now i believe there are no limits for personal development :)</i></div>
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But at this post i want to share with you about one special place in Hong Kong. I was there yesterday during our free time between workshops. This is the place for lutheran protestant church which is located in pure oriental (Chinese) style.</div>
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During the week we had a big discussion in our office about cultural shock. As i believe that cultural shock is something that everyone experiences when being abroad, but also i'm sure it helps people to challenge their mindset and start looking at traditional things from very another perspective. It challenges the comfort zone. And it happened not only at the beginning of my stay in the foreign country, but constantly.<br />
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I declare i became addicted to Chinese food! :D I've never felt so great when eating and tasting so many different delicious and various dishes. Somehow i feel like Elizabeth from 'Eat, Pray, Love' when she was in Italy and discovered the whole art in eating. </div>
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At the beginning of my internship i tried to cook at home sometimes, after a while i completely gave up because of 3 reasons:</div>
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2. Eating out (at cafes, street, restaurants) costs the same as to buy products and cook by yourself at home :))</div>
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1. <b>Street food</b> - completely safe and cheap. Usually you can find therefish bowls, tasty octopus, snake or chicken meet. For desert you can eat frozen yogurt or jelly.</div>
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2. <b>Siu Mei </b>- dried noodles or rice with different sort of meet: beef, chicken, barbeque pork or vagetables. I usually drink cold ice lemon tea together with it.</div>
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3. <b>Rice noodles soups - </b>made from white rice noodles, together with meet, vegatables and dumplings. Everything together comes to one plate. Soup is being eaten with chopsticks and a small spoon <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">simultaneously.</span></span></div>
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I got the video '10 minutes and you know everything about China' from my friend today, and couldn't stop sharing it with all of you. Well, it takes me already 2 months (definately more than 10 minutes:D) to understand people, culture and business. It's hard, i would say, but it's such a great journey.<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: purple;"> I truly enjoy of being integrated into Hong Kong, for me this is a heart of Asia</b></span>, though many people say it's a very easy version of Asia.</div>
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<b>A short remark from history</b>: Hong Kong is a special administrative district of Mainland of China. It was a part of Great Britain till 1997. After 1997 it's considered to be a part of China, many people left Hong Kong in this time because of fear to communist party of Mainland. The city is rich, well-established, safe and totally open for foreigners and business from abroad. People have different perspectives about belonging to China: they are be proud of ancient Chinese traditions, culture, emerging growth of China. At the same time, they complain that people from China are rude, wear not fashionably, take their workplaces. This is what i discovered and was told by many of my friends here. </div>
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For eastern-european, like me, it takes time to understand people and easily integrate. Sometimes, i have a feeling that i'm totally from another world with my ideas and thoughts, especially when we have meetings or discussions. But it's such a fun and full of learning, because my mind is being challenged, and i understand that only challenging my stereotypes and believes i can change myself for better :))))</div>
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The video itself is very cool: has different statistical perspectives of China, business, culture, people. Those people, who are interested in Asia will like it!<br />
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And i follow its main advise: <span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b>be patient and have fun!</b></span> This advise i give to everyone who is at AIESEC internship or simply living abroad, i think this is the best way to fall in love in the country, people, and change for better. :)<br />
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This was quite unexpected and exciting trip: camping out of Hong Kong with my neighbours and friends from UK, Mainland China, Germany, Canada, living in the tent in the middle of mountains and beach just near South Asian Sea. Swimming, singing, playing mafia, setting fire and eating grilled sweet potatos!<br />
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Enjoy my times here so much with all the people whom i meet, learn from and having fun all together. Thank you! <br />
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'Marta, i keep praying for you every day and i know that you'll get well soon', - message that i got from my friend in Hong Kong, when i was totally sick and couldn't get up.<br />
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'I feel very tough now, can you pray for me and help me to pass the hard moments in my life?' - my friend who is organizing an event asked me about this.<br />
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<i><b>I've never received such messages and conversations in Ukraine. I'm bringing this peace in my heart with myself.</b></i><br />
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My friend has started a movement of <a href="http://www.payitforward.hk/">'Pay It Forward' in Hong Kong</a> because of his dream and inspiration to make good things to people.<br />
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<i><b>I still believe in impact that everyone can make and looking for more tools to make it happen everywhere.</b></i><br />
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