The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. ~ Richard Bach

Do you even remember the last time you felt sheer pleasure, or unmitigated glee? What is your most recent recollection of bubbling over with happiness? I mean, when you felt so giddy that your cheeks were glowing, your heart was thumping, and your eyes welled up with unfettered joy? If that hasn’t happened to you in the last little while (or even a very long while), don’t fret.

As John Barrymore once said, “Happiness often sneaks in a door you didn’t know you left open.” Chasing happiness isn’t really going to make it magically appear, but you can create the circumstances that ‘leave the door open’ to a joyful and meaningful life by setting the stage for happiness, and allowing it a grand entrance. You can feel happier right now, with these scientifically proven methods.

“You think there is just a desert and a tyrannical regime, with nothing happening on the ground. And then you go in, and find all these people doing fantastic work in their communities, like peace projects, environmental justice projects and community building. Suddenly, you have a totally different image and landscape emerging from a country.” (Source)

These are words spoken by Kosha Joubert, President of GEN International, whose work revolves around finding and connecting sustainable communities and initiatives across the globe.

The Ecovillage Movement Is Growing In Senegal

Senegal is the perfect example of such initiatives, with its government having launched a program to transition a total of 14,000 traditional villages into models of ecologically, socially, economically, and culturally sustainable living! As of now, 100 traditional villages have already transitioned into ecovillages, with a goal of 500 by 2018.

Waking Times

Video – Idaho animal welfare wins, as U.S. District Court judge strikes down an ag-gag law that criminalized the filming of animal abuse on factory farms. Will Potter, journalist and plaintiff of the case, highlights the significance of this landmark victory.

By Christopher Bueker
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Today, spiritual teachers seem to be a dime a dozen. Many of them are asking for large amounts of money in return for the spiritual teachings that historically were freely passed down from teacher to student.

Many of these teachers offer a solution that involves joining an exclusive community or cult-like group that has been formed around the so-called spiritual teacher. The message is: “join my community and pay me large amounts of money and enlightenment will surely be yours.” When in reality it is a trap that involves manipulation and control.

We understand that the constant energetic changes you are going through can seem intense and fatiguing. It helps if you can remember that they are completely transformative in nature, and a necessary part of the process that is occurring on your planet. In fact, they are assisting you by moving energies up and out in a much faster and more efficient manner than if you were attempting to release them on your own.

This explains why many of you are feeling like not much is happening on one hand, and on the other, feeling like things are moving very quickly. You are in an accelerated time, and what is occurring internally will be reflected in your physical reality, as your external world will always respond to your internal changes.

We understand that from your perspective it may seem difficult, but we would like to point out that the true discomfort has come from the centuries of resistance and victim consciousness you have already endured. This, truly, is what you have been waiting for, evolving into the empowered version of yourself, and it is a glorious time, indeed. ~Archangel Gabriel

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