I was going through some YouTube videos and stumbled upon this, Natutulog Ba Ang Diyos by Gary Valenciano. I went through some comments and was touched by the messages of hope that this has brought to people. Seasons greetings!
This is a repost from Henrik Edberg’s Positivity Blog highlighting Mahatma Gandhi’s 10 fundamentals for changing the world, which ultimately points to change within one’s self as the driving force of a greater, more significant revolution.
Read more of Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World.
If you change yourself you will change your world. If you change how you think then you will change how you feel and what actions you take. And so the world around you will change. Not only because you are now viewing your environment through new lenses of thoughts and emotions but also because the change within can allow you to take action in ways you wouldn’t have – or maybe even have thought about – while stuck in your old thought patterns.
And the problem with changing your outer world without changing yourself is that you will still be you when you reach that change you have strived for. You will still have your flaws, anger, negativity, self-sabotaging tendencies etc. intact.
There have been many arguments for and against altruism, or the unselfish concern for the welfare of others. One more popular rhetoric is that altruism goes against the aphorism of “survival of the fittest”. 
So what drives humans and animals to behave altruistically?
This article may just have the answer.
In studies of the brain performed by researchers at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., a link has been found between the desire to “do good” and the functioning of the brain. Long associated with an emotional component, or that “warm fuzzy” feeling one thinks of when contemplating altruistic behavior and being kind to others, the drive to be good may be more cerebral than emotional.
Read full article on Associated Content.
Related reading:
The Evidence for the Evolution of Social Responsibility and a sense of Mutual Obligation in Human Society
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If it were not for its commercial purpose, Ponce Suites in Dona Vicenta Village, Davao City, could have been placed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most decorated establishment in the world…with artworks from a single artist. Here are a few words from PonceSuites.net about Kublai Ponce-Millan, one of the most prolific contemporary artists in the country:
Kublai Ponce-Millan, who created all these giant works, was born on July 8, 1974 in Cotabato City. He finished schooling at the University of the Philippines with a degree of Fine Arts. After which, he dedicated his life back in Mindanao, sculpting the culture from which, where which he grew up, as a human being and as a soul. The massive pieces magnify calm, passion and grief proportonately in the stone-grain finish accomplished with the five-year technique developed through various weathers accompaning their inceptions and growth, from steel and wiremesh underpinnings above and below ground, to the finishing of the last detail of the gesturing hand.
Visit my Multiply site for more photos of his artworks.
