“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – M other T eresa
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What We’ve Learned About Relating to Others
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“You get up in the morning and go to the bathroom and reach over for the sponge, and that’s handed to you by a Pacific Islander. You reach for a bar of soap, and that’s given to you at the hands of a Frenchman. And then you go into the kitchen to drink your coffee for the morning, and that is poured into your cup by a South American … before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. American culture endorses a myth of rugged individuality, but when we stop and reflect, we’ll see that we’re social creatures and rely upon each other for our existence. The above quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. gets at the heart of the matter — we’re all interconnected and survive thanks to each other. The “Relating to Others” module in The Manely Firm’s Compassion Integrity Training (CIT) taught us that by investing in the happiness of others, we’re investing in our own. The training used an example of a teacher who gave each student a balloon representing their happiness. Each child wrote their name on the balloon, and the teacher set them free in a room before telling the students to find theirs. As you can imagine, it was chaotic and took a very long time. But they performed the exercise again. The teacher told her students this time, “If you find someone else’s happiness, take it to them.” Within minutes, every student was satisfied. She showed her class that when we each only look out for ourselves, everyone suffers. We aim to bring that mindset into our work at The Manely Firm. Everyone tends to extend empathy and generosity toward those we love, but CIT teaches how to extend that same grace to people we don’t know as well. Doing so requires recognizing our common humanity. Attorneys have taken an oath to execute the law faithfully, and the ideals of our legal system say that justice should be meted out impartially. Everyone at The Manely Firm is responsible for ensuring those standards are upheld. CIT has taught us how to see the commonality in us all through lessons on forgiveness, gratitude, impartiality, and concern. We now empathize more than ever with our clients and hope to provide them daily with the compassion they deserve.
I ngredients
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2 cups baby spinach
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1 tsp fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped
1 cup water
3 pears, peeled and chopped
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Ice (optional)
1 cup chopped celery
D irections 1. In a blender, add spinach and water and blend until smooth. 2. Add all remaining fruit and vegetables. Blend for about 1 minute until smooth. 3. Pour the mixture into a silicone mold or ice cube tray. 4. Freeze for 3 hours or overnight until firm. Pro Tip – You can also freeze half of the mixture and the rest can be enjoyed as smoothies right away. If you are making a smoothie, add a bit of ice to the blender before serving and blend just enough to break the ice apart. Pour right into your pup’s bowl!
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