The following is the complete copy from msn news page. I think it provides us with reminder that all we need is love and peace in our lives. Although great wealth is a great tool for our development and that of others and that in this life, we need the monies to do good things on this planet, at the end of the days, if we all could live in love, and peaceful harmony, posession would not make any difference to our lives.
Hope we all could one day reach that stage, where Golden Age, or Paradise on Earth could manifest. I am still trying hard myself, between, the need to support own livelihood and being free from attachments.
Hope the stories below could remind us towards what are more important in this life.
Love and Peace
Alexson Lee
A retired Canadian couple who won $CA11.3 ($A11.1 million) in the lottery in July have already given it (almost) all away.
"What you've never had, you never miss," 78-year-old Violet Large explained to a local reporter.
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She was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer when the couple realised they'd won the jackpot in July.
"That money that we won was nothing," her tearful husband, Allen, told Patricia Brooks Arenburg of the Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald. "We have each other."
The money was a "headache," they told the paper--mainly, it brought anxiety over the prospect that "crooked people" might take advantage of them. Several people called them out of the blue to ask for money when the news first broke that they'd won the jackpot. So they began an $11 million donation spree to get rid of it and help others, the Chronicle Herald reports:
They took care of family first and then began delivering donations to the two pages' worth of groups they had decided on, including the local fire department, churches, cemeteries, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, hospitals in Truro and Halifax, where Violet underwent her cancer treatment, and organisations that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. The list goes on and on.
Violet told the Canadian Press that they retained about 2 percent of the money for a rainy day.
"It made us feel good," Violet told the Chronicle Herald. "And there's so much good being done with that money."
The Nova Scotia couple have been married more than 35 years and quietly saved up the money that Allen made as a welder and Violet made in retail before retiring.
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