Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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There's just no time for hatred. It's lazy and destructive. We can all do better. Our world needs us to.I love you.
The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you. Oh, it taxed her immensely, but she tried to set as many to rest as she could. Sometimes it only takes one word of kindness, you know, to set a soul at ease.
If you can__ see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you__e not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself.
Being right is massively overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of being compassionate and kind.
If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.
I can think of no greater way to live my life than with as much love as I can give, as often as I can give it.
With the ferrule of his walking-stick Denis began to scratch the boar's long bristly back. The animal moved a little so as to bring himself within easier range of the instrument that evoked in him such delicious sensations; then he stood stock still, softly grunting his contentment. The mud of years flaked off his sides in a grey powdery scurf. "What a pleasure it is," said Denis, "to do somebody a kindness. I believe I enjoy scratching this pig quite as much as he enjoys being scratched. If only one could always be kind with so little expense or trouble...
And then it hit me__ don__ have to participate in these toxic conversations. But if I choose to, I can set a different example. I can bring love to the moment,regardless of the response. I can choose to be kind, no matter what.My power lives in my love.
Truly caring people know they have to take care of themselves first.
People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire.
Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion.
Ignite the fire of loving kindness in your soul, fuel that fire with understanding and compassion for others, and start a bonfire of love worldwide.
How good life is when one does something good and just!
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.