Dr. Laurie Santos shares a parable she learned from one of our greatest human rights leaders named Jaspansin Kala. It's about a lantern in a village that is it with a collection of lanterns. And as the sun starts to set in the evening, they start to feel fear. But then all of the lanterns, one by one, flick on their lights. She says this has profound implications for what we're facing today: mental health and depression rates.
Following 9/11, Simran Jeet Singh's Sikh family in Texas was subjected to extreme racist abuse. And yet, Simran's father chose to look on the bright side and offer thanks instead for the acts of kindness friends and neighbors showed them. How was such optimism possible?
Simran - author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life - explains how practicing positive habits and living by our values as often as we can will really help when a crisis arises.
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