Interpersonal relationships are often substituted with technology distractions. Busy lives with less time to connect and reflect. This site is a collection of stories and media, shared to inspire gentle change through kindness, compassion, and empathy.
With meaningful personal growth, collectively we ensure relationships and the World around us, provide a good energy life for all. For those interested, we've also provided some charity and volunteer opportunities.
Enjoy :-)
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Most advertising distracts from important things, but with thought and heart, can be very special. It's the message in this video, not the product or service, which moves the soul.
Touching video of people's reactions to a song about respect. The Feelings Parade — "Too Much", a film by Gabriel Diamond.
There has been an unusual amount of World challenges the last few years. Combined with everyday's life challenges, life can be a little overwhelming. We've provided a mental wellness page to give a little hope, and thoughts of how to rise when down. And for those who may need it, we've included some links to 24-hour crisis help & support.
Do you live near a beach, ocean, or waterway that's needs some loving cleanup? Click below for volunteer pollution cleanup activities.
With everything that's going on in the World today, sometimes we wonder 'What's next?' Click below for tomorrow's eternal thoughts...
Hopefully this site encourages human kindness, by sharing content that stirs and awakens feelings from within.
Self-reflection is like testing the waters... it can be scary, uncomfortable, and take us outside our comfort zone. Love, humility and empathy are rare today, so uncommon to find in it's purist form. Feeling transparent and free to love deeply, is where most will find their happy place.
Test the waters... dig deep to discover what's inside — it's where the very best version of you resides. It's who you were originally created to be.
This movie was an unexpected feel good story. Worth watching to very end, if you are able to access it online. It will make your day :-)
Movie has one song in particular which is worth sharing (link below).
This is another advertising video with a very special message. We have a page dedicated to nourishing / protecting children. Please visit our page ink button below, to visit 'Protect the children'.
Touching show of empathy.
No matter how present we are in the moment, sometimes we're reminded of forces beyond our control. It is during these times of uncertainty, inner peace learned & practiced, prevails over fear.
— Video from NBC TV series Life (S02-E6)
For ways to help children in need, please visit our Protect the children page. — video by Omeleto
Not worrying what anybody else thinks, we are free to give of ourselves, when the needs of others arise. Give proudly, as there is no shame in displaying gentle compassion and empathy.
Receiving kindness inspires paying it forward. An individual act can multiply into a community of difference. Eventually it comes full circle.
— By CBS Evening News
Beautiful love story coming soon. Thank you for your patience, — ge.life
Every year Life Vest Inside organizes Dance for Kindness, a worldwide event, in honor of World Kindness Day — showing that regardless of the differences in race, religion, ethnicity, culture and background — the common thread that unites us all is kindness.
From TED talk: What's the antidote to rising nationalism, polarization and hate? In this inspiring, poetic talk, Valarie Kaur asks us to reclaim love as a revolutionary act. As she journeys from the birthing room, to tragic sites of bloodshed, Kaur shows us how the choice to love can be a force for justice.
Valarie Kaur is author of See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
ge.life includes a page on romantic relationships HERE but first will share a related true story.
Years ago, I (site creator) had a money-making idea I wished to patent and sell. Being a coffee drinker, I was familiar with the annoyance / danger of hot coffee cup sleeves from places like Starbucks They were constantly slipping or falling off. Not the end of the World stuff, but in need of a simple fix.
After extensive brainstorming, I came-up with the idea of adding a couple small sticky gum drops to the interior of sleeve (similar to the gummy stuff used to attach new credit cards to letters). My idea didn't seem cool enough though to patent, so didn't proceed further.
Anyhow, fast forward to today, and you'll notice Starbucks created & implemented an even better solution. It's simply ingenious — they just removed the inside cardboard's smooth surface, to expose interior ribbing (see left picture above). When the sleeve is pushed up, the ribs compress, providing inward pressure, therefore preventing slippage. This design also uses less cardboard, so better for the environment.
If you are blessed to be in a meaningful relationship, or are preparing your character for one, you know how important it is to strengthen your ability to give. And yes, it is not strange prepping for a future relationship, regardless of current single status. It's the ultimate in unselfishness, ensuring you are ready to be giving on the level your partner needs.
To be able to develop the very best coffee cup sleeve, we need to be able to stand back and look at the entire picture. Deepening a relationship is no different. I failed at my cup sleeve design due to a narrow focus, and desire for a quick solution. Think of a good relationship as eternal, regardless of what you believe eternity beholds. This way, patience becomes a necessity in the approach, and allows the time to step back and observe quietly with an open heart.
Try to feel what your partner's spirit is yearning for. Sense their energy by reading subtle signs in the energy they project, the words they use, and their body language. Add all these signals together, and you'll have a pretty good idea what they desire. For example, if you are a little loud consistently in your voice / the manner in which you communicate, your partner may reduce the conversations length, not look at you directly as much, and withdraw in other ways. They might read a book, rather than watch a noisy TV, or spend more time alone. You may also be able to sense their spirit retreat, if they are being unwelcomely dominated. A partner with a less gentle spirit, may do the opposite by raising their voice to retain some dominance / dignity / self-respect.
Now let's look at Utopian intimacy — the right picture above depicts this. It's the ultimate utopian cup design. The ribbed cardboard is attached permanently to the cup, with the ribs on outside (in a wavey shape). This design is so cool, that your hand won't slip upwards on a cup (due the waves). When two people are like-minded, and each desire to be the servant of the other, they enter the utopian realm. Each understands the other's spirit, so fluently read needs & desires. This requires character depth and the needed sacrifices to obtain it (humility / gentleness / servanthood / unselfishness etc.). If you're both committed to do whatever it takes to bond on this deeper level, your utopian connection will be envied by the angels :-)
With everything that's going on in the World today, sometimes we wonder 'What's next?' Click below for tomorrow's eternal thoughts...
As we are all aware, Ukraine is a country under extreme humanitarian and rebuilding challenges. Due to the wide scope of assistance needed, we've created a page devoted entirely to their needs. Please click below to view. Thank you, — ge.life
New challenges, dangers, obstacles, insecurities, and social media, threaten today's children. Visit our Protect the children page for ways to help.
— By Viddsee
— By Meir Kay
Ben Stiller experiencing life in the movie; The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. It's theme song 'Dirty Paws' is presented below.
— By Jesse JR
Browse our Volunteering page for amazing opportunities. Click below.
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— BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville joined the Jordanian Air Force, as UK aid dropped from the sky.
In an extract from a New York Times article, David Brooks wrote; "Hamas and its followers cultivate the fantasy that Israel, a permanent Middle Eastern nation, will magically cease to exist. Its terrorists seek to avenge the wounds of injustice and humiliation with mass murder, without anything remotely resembling a firm plan to improve the quality of Palestinian lives."
Not all Palestinians in Gaza support Hamas, yet thousands of innocent women and children have perished from Israel's indiscriminate vengeance for Hamas's attack on their civilians. Hama's attack was horrendous in nature, and the perpetrators should definitely be brought to justice, but not at the expense of so many innocent lives. Additionally, thousands more children and their mothers will live with amputated limbs / permanent blindness from explosive debris / and without their dead siblings.
To completely level entire neighborhoods hoping to hit Hamas, is no different from the horrendous Russian attacks on Ukraine.
This was Israel's opportunity to rise to a purer level. Show their (Israel's) religion, has a foundation in kindness and doing what is right, rather than self-righteous justification. Sadly they have not shown purity of heart in this situation, rather are negatively affecting a whole new generation of Palestinians, through ridiculously disproportionate violence. Palestinians will only remember the endless bombings / endless attacks on ambulances /restrictions and direct attacks on humanitarian aid / torturous interrogations, etc., etc.., etc. Only 1/200th of the normal supply of food and medicine was allowed in, and only after massive international outrage. How can any race or religion justify starving children?
Wow did Israel miss an opportunity to show they are a good people. Imagine if they were EXTREMELY selective with their use of aerial bombs, assisted with making sure civilians were out of harms way, allowed thousands of food trucks to get to the starving, and actually had soldiers handing out other needed supplies for free. Yes, soldiers handing out aid in person. This type of kindness / mercy, is what helps reduce future conflicts. It is possible to show kindness while hunting down the evil individuals whom hurt Israeli civilians.
Soldiers actually saying "sorry to disrupt your lives in this way, we are only here to find the people whom hurt the ones we care about." Some version of this kinder approach, would have helped reduce the high volume of retaliations, the heartless approach will bring later.
So why in the video above did the UK need to drop needed supplies to Gaza, from the sky? Why not by truck? Because Israel severely restricted / caused such dangerous conditions on the ground, that the UK's only way to help was to drop it from above. A perfect visual illustration of how insane the situation was on the ground, that even help couldn't be supplied.
Unfortunately due to stupid religious justifications on both sides, and their bad / self-righteous behaviors during the conflict, ge.life cannot provide related charity links. Both sides are known for retaliating immaturely and disproportionally against those seen to support one side over the other. If ge.life only provided charity links to one side, the other may retaliate. There are many charities online you can find to support either side, if you wish to help the inflicted.
—To see a list of charities ge.life can display, please click 'Ways to help' below.
Why a video on the gentle art of Chinese tea making,
directly after the 'Devine madness' story above?
To show contrast.
What life is like when lived gently, humbly,
compared to the savagery evolved from a war of Religions.
Lets all strive to be better, be kinder, gentler, and more humble.
Lets slow-down, drink some warm tea, and spread some love :-)
— Video by Tea Artist Si Chen.
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