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Uganda's First Buddhist Monk

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 10, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 10, 2026 "Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves." — Henry David Thoreau Uganda's First Buddhist Monk A boy raised Catholic in Kampala flew to India in 1990 to earn an MBA and returned, seven years later, with a shaved head, brown robes, and a large Buddha statue that customs officials mistook for witchcraft. What Bhante Buddharakkhita built from that improbable homecoming — a meditation hall, a school, a clinic, and a borehole bringing clean water to a lakeshore vi...
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Why Dopamine Isn't the Problem

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 09, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 09, 2026 "When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." — Lao Tzu Why Dopamine Isn't the Problem The popular concept of a "dopamine detox" rests on a fundamental misunderstanding: dopamine isn't the villain of compulsive behavior, but the engine of all goal-directed action, from scrolling to meditation. Neuroscientist Kent Berridge's research reveals something more useful: there is a crucial difference between wanting (the drive toward something, powered by dopamine) and liking ...
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I'll Just Write One

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 08, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 08, 2026 "A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it." — Samuel Johnson I'll Just Write One At ten, Reva Agrawal made an impatient bargain with her mother: if she couldn't have a new book every week, she would simply write one herself. Five years later, that stubborn logic has produced a published novel -- and a way of sharing it that quietly refuses the usual transaction. Instead of selling copies online, Reva gives her book away, asking only for an act of kindness in return. The logic, she explains, fits the book...
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This Week in DailyGood ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 07, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 07, 2026 "We all have within us the seeds of compassion to heal ourselves and the world around us." — Lobsang Phuntsok This Week's DailyGood Digest In a week woven with stories of resilience and connection, our daily inspirations reminded us of the power within to affect change around us. We explored  seeds of compassion within and around us, as Lobsang Phuntsok reminds us of inner work's potential to heal both ourselves and our world. Along similar lines, The Wisdom Collective invited us to imagine ...
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A Pangolin Pup Found in a Cardboard Box

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 07, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 07, 2026 "We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife." — Steve Irwin A Pangolin Pup Found in a Cardboard Box Inside a car boot in Johannesburg, a three-month-old pangolin pup lay curled in a cardboard box, a cabbage leaf beside him — the trafficker's well-meaning but useless gesture toward feeding an animal whose diet consists entirely of ants and termites. That detail somehow says everything about the vast distance between the illegal wildlife trade and the natural world it plunder...
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The Schools Giving Children a Say in How They Are Run

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 06, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 06, 2026 "What I’ve learned is that speaking out is good… there’s no looking back. It makes your life better." — Abi, 10 The Schools Giving Children a Say in How They Are Run When a six-year-old suggests a "buddy bench" for lonely classmates and watches it become real, something shifts - not just in the schoolyard, but in how that child understands their own place in the world. Smart School Councils, a UK charity founded by former teacher Greg Sanderson, has built a simple platform that gives even the youngest pupils a ...
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'Relentless Outreach': the State That Doesn't Give up on Mentally Ill Residents

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 05, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 05, 2026 "Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself." — Timothy Miller 'Relentless Outreach': the State That Doesn't Give up on Mentally Ill Residents For nearly two decades, Janina Estrada searched for her son Jimmy Barela in the rain, behind dumpsters, in the margins where people disappear when every system has stopped looking. What changed wasn't a law or a court order - it was two outreach w...
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