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by Marneta Viegas

Experts now believe that happiness and positivity is a skill that should be taught in school as it helps pupils become more balanced, sharing and caring citizens.

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 by Mary Jaksch 

Photo by Insight Imaging: John A. Ryan Photography

Last year’s most surprising, provocative, and inspiring findings on the science of living a meaningful life.

December 17, 2012

by Jay Litvin

Pity, sympathy, empathy, compassion. Each is received at various times by one in distress. They are the responses engendered by our misfortunes from those we encounter. And each feels different when received. Each has a different effect on those who are suffering in the midst of psychic or physical crisis.

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by Atit Marmer

My entire life has been committed to learning and understanding the giving and receiving of compassion. My first memory of an event involving this spiritual path goes way back to the sixth grade when our class visited a student art show presented by a school situated in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Cincinnati, Ohio, where I grew up.

 Submitted by What's Good 206

If you let a community tell its own stories, what do you hear?

During Seattle's Compassion Games, independent filmmakers brought us stories of a neighborhood coming together around a community garden, a community formed around an all-night diner, and a community of dancers that became family for a Seattle newcomer.