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“Failures of Kindness”
The key to Joy is unconditional kindness to all of life, including one’s own, which we refer to as compassion.1 Without compassion, little of any significance is ever accomplished in human endeavor. We may generalize to the greater social context from individual therapies, wherein patients cannot be truly cured or fundamentally healed until they in... See more
David R. Hawkins • Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
“I have developed a rule. When it comes to acts of kindness, I do not beat myself up for failing to do what didn’t occur to me, or what I forgot to do. I do not beat myself up for being too consumed by my own needs, for being too sad or too tired.
Instead, if it occurs to me to do something small and kind, and if I have the means and the motiv
... See moreWe like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. It's the reason... we have to get burned before we understand the power of fire; the reason our most meaningful relationships are so often those that cont
... See morecheryl strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
As a particular person gets made, the potential for meaningful action increases.