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1. The Health Benefits of Altruism - How Giving Back is Good For You Being altruistic, or reaching out to help others, not only benefits the person being helped, but practicing altruism also has many benefits for the person doing the helping.  Altruism is an unselfish concern for the welfare of others. It is a g...
2. Give a Christmas Jar or Anonymous Money Jar A Christmas Jar or Holiday Money Jar is a great new tradition to help spread the holiday spirit and encourage random acts of kindness. Consider starting a new family tradition this year, pass on the spirit of the holiday and give a money jar anonymou...
3. Give Thanks at Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is a perfect time to stop for a moment once a year and remember to give thanks. It's a time to be grateful for one's health, family, friends, job, home and having food on the table. Take a few moments as you read through this lens and to...
4. Living Life with Gratitude Many of the simple things in life can be reasons for being grateful. These are often things that we tend to take for granted--our health, family, friends, our livelihood--until they are brought to our attention or taken away. Remembering to be grate...
5. Ayn Rand - your invitation to independent thought Of course you disagree with some of what Ayn Rand wrote or spoke. If you didn't, you would be unnecessary. Unless your natural joy of discovery was destroyed by compulsory schooling, you will still find a great deal in Rand's works to challenge you...
6. The Power of Kindness "Be kind to everyone you meet. They all carry a heavy load." -- Elton Graham, my grandfather. I learned a lot about kindness from my grandparents. Grandpa Graham was the sweetest man. Chickadees would land on his arms and shoulders while he was outs...
7. Brain Effects of Altruism I was so EXCITED to see THIS GREAT ARTICLE featured on MSN's front page! It says that the key to happiness is being ALTRUISTIC, and shows scientific studies that prove this! This WONDERFUL FACT, which has been described in Kabbalah books for cen...
8. Kabbalah for Kids I'm glad you found us. Come hang out for awhile and enjoy the stories and videos that we have put together just for you! Make sure to bookmark this page, or check back often as we will add more stories frequently.
9. What if we'd forget about Making Money Online for One Week and Focused on Writing from our Hearts? "Make Money Online In One Week!" "Get Rich Overnight!" "Start Earning Cash Tomorrow!" Statements like these are huge distractions to our natural yearning for creativity - especially during financially difficult times. Everything we do becomes influen...
10. My Good Deed - Change the World How will you remember 9/11? Pledge your good deed for 9/11 in memory of those lost September 11, 2001 and turn 9/11 into a national day of service and compassion. My Good Deed is a non-profit public benefit corporation that was founded in 2002 to hon...
11. Handmade Quilt for College A handmade quilt can be an heirloom to pass down from generation to generation. There are many factory made quilts on the market but few people still make all cotton, hand stitched quilts. I am offering this beautiful handmade quilt for sale to help...
12. 50 Ways to Give Back for Less Than a Dollar Mention the words "Give Back" and many people will automatically think of their wallet. There are many ways to give back that involve little cash.  Random acts of kindness, recycling, vounteering your time and let's not forget to h...
13. Squidoo Charity Fund - Donate Your Squidoo Lens Royalties The Squidoo Charity Fund was developed for lensmasters who want to donate their royalties to charity, but cannot make a decision where to send them. This is the default payment setting on all new lenses. A different charity (or charities) is chosen...
14. A Month of Thanks Challenge A Month of Thanks gives lensmasters a chance to be thankful, raise awareness about hunger and make lenses to benefit hunger related Squidoo Charities. The challenge is being done to help us realize that even in the midst of everything that is going...
15. The Presidential Pledge What will your pledge be to help incoming President Barack Obama? Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher teamed up with MySpace Celebrity to tape a short video with 57 celebrities pledging to change the world. They debut the video on the Oprah in Washington,...
16. Squidoo Charity Boosters How do we make the world "a better place"? By contributing our own part - big or small! A 10%- donation of our lens earnings is not too much for most (if not all) of us, but if hundreds or (gasp!) thousands of Squidoo lensmasters come together in suc...
17. Random Acts Of Kindness     Welcome to RAOK ONLINE lens. I have set this lens up to encourage YOU to practice Random Acts Of kindness. I will up date this page often and I hope to share stories that will make you smile and ponder just how special this life ca...
18. Book Review: Darwin's cathedral Introduction In his book "Darwin's cathedral", David Wilson takes the ultimate functionalist approach by arguing that religion is an adaptive human behavior that has molded groups of human beings by natural selection (p. 45-56). Natural sel...
19. BEATING CANCER WITH ONE CUP OF LEMONADE AT A TIME ABOUT ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND In 2000, a 4 year old cancer patient named Alexandra "Alex" Scott announced a seemingly simple idea -she was holding a lemonade stand to raise money to help "her doctors" find a cure for kids with cance...
20. A Rose by any other name would still be a hero Every charitible cause that comes along has a reason for being. Special needs are able to be met, dreams realized and awareness raised through the benevolent actions of others. More often than not, these individuals are the ones behind the scenes, t...