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Daily Affirmation

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Detox Your Thoughts

Dedicate yourself to the practice of nonviolence in your thoughts today.  Watch as it extends to your words and deeds.  Consider making it a daily practice.

How does true transformation happen?  People don’t ever change by becoming someone else. People change by seeking, finding, and nourishing the best of who they are. They persist through the dark, heart-shredding times. They reach deeper into their true nature, the source of their best wisdom, courage, and passion.

“I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be; and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.”  ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just for Today … An Invitation, by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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meditating babyThe Invitation

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love
for your dream for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon…
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own
without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to be careful , be realistic
remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another
to be true to yourself.

If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day.
And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

Congratulations, Malala Yousafzai, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

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We can support education for ALL children. Click on the image to go to Malala’s website.

The Halau produces meditation MP3s for the benefit of our supporters, family and friends. Proceeds from MP3 sales are donated to the Half The Sky Foundation, an international non-profit organization dedicated to propagating information and providing support to women disenfranchised in educational opportunities as well as subjected to such horrors as rape and genital mutilation.

Malala Yousafzai, age 17, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Malala Yousafzai, age 17, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Click on the image for an article about Malala in the New York Times.

Today, we congratulate the remarkable Malala Yousafzai — fearless activist, inspiring leader, and the youngest-ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.  Listen to her inspiring acceptance speech … a most brilliant Star.  We at The Halau are joyful to witness the emergence of a renewed Spirit coming of age on Earth.  Mahalo pumehana kakou, Malala … we shall press on with the struggle to make our world Pono for the children.

Week of Oct. 12, 2014 – Celebrating INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF THE GIRL with HALF THE SKY FOUNDATION

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Week of Oct. 12, 2014 – THE HALAU CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF THE GIRL WITH HALF THE SKY FOUNDATION

We’re excited to share this exclusive clip from A Path Appears, our new four-hour documentary series, to celebrate the International Day of the Girl. Click the image below to hear Eunice’s inspirational message to you or follow this link:


Eunice is in 5th grade at the Kibera School for Girls, and she is fiercely smart and creative. She deeply believes in her dreams, and commands attention when she verbosely expresses herself and her ambitions.

Join us in celebrating all girls dreams this International Day of the girl by sharing this video.

Tweet: Join me & @apathappears to celebrate #dayofthegirl with Eunice’s poem for girls across the globe http://youtu.be/R_qR528LfR8 #IDG2014

The founder of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) and the Kibera School for Girls, Kennedy Odede, writes in our blog:

“The International Day of the Girl provides a vital opportunity to reflect on the progress that has been made globally for girls, and the distance we still need to travel. This year we witnessed unprecedented coverage of the many issues that girls face. Powerful public discussions have emerged in influential worldwide institutions; from the UN, to college campuses, to social media, the fight for the rights of women and girls is becoming more pressing and imperative.”  ~ Kennedy Odede

(Read more at http://apathappears.org/happy-international-day-girl/)

Have a fantastic weekend!