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The Kindness Box
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Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
The value of a smile .. It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
More at this huge site -
TOP 25 FEELING HAPPY QUOTES (of 141) | A-Z Quotes
More at this huge site -
TOP 25 FEELING HAPPY QUOTES (of 141) | A-Z Quotes
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
‘As he was dying, someone asked Aldous Huxley if he would say what he had learned in all of his work with many spiritual teachers and gurus on his own spiritual journey. Huxley’s answer was, “It is embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kind.”‘
- Jack Kornfield, Meditation for Beginners
Kindness
Interesting site!
- Jack Kornfield, Meditation for Beginners
Kindness
Interesting site!
Beautiful.
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Yes - it ought to be a no-brainer but we seem to be slow learners!
I had a click or two at that site ...
Found 150 or so about kindness -
Helpful Words
Ought to keep me out-of-mischief for a little while!
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
For example -
A person who gives freely is loved by all. It’s hard to understand, but it is by giving that we gain strength. But there is a proper time and a proper way to give, and the person who understands this is strong and wise. By giving with a feeling of reverence for life, envy and anger are banished. A path to happiness is found. Like one who plants a sapling and in due course receives shade, flowers, and fruit, so the results of giving bring joy. The way there is through continuous acts of kindness so that the heart is strengthened by compassion and giving.’
- Majjhima Nikaya, in The Buddha Speaks, A book of guidance from the Buddhist scriptures edited by Anne Bancroft.
Cheers!
A person who gives freely is loved by all. It’s hard to understand, but it is by giving that we gain strength. But there is a proper time and a proper way to give, and the person who understands this is strong and wise. By giving with a feeling of reverence for life, envy and anger are banished. A path to happiness is found. Like one who plants a sapling and in due course receives shade, flowers, and fruit, so the results of giving bring joy. The way there is through continuous acts of kindness so that the heart is strengthened by compassion and giving.’
- Majjhima Nikaya, in The Buddha Speaks, A book of guidance from the Buddhist scriptures edited by Anne Bancroft.
Cheers!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
‘For all practical purposes, if all of your enemies are well, happy and peaceful, they would not be your enemies. If they are free from problems, pain, suffering, affliction, neurosis, psychosis, paranoia, fear, tension, anxiety, etc., they would not be your enemies. Your practical solution towards your enemies is to help them overcome their problems, so you can live in peace and happiness. In fact, if you can, you should fill the minds of all your enemies with loving kindness and make all of them realize the true meaning of peace, so you can live in peace and happiness. The more they are in neurosis, psychosis, fear, tension, anxiety etc., the more trouble, pain, and suffering they can bring to the world. If you could convert a vicious and wicked person into a holy and saintly individual, you would perform a miracle. Let us cultivate adequate wisdom and loving kindness within ourselves to convert evil minds to saintly minds.’
- Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English.
- Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English.
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Do you think you’re empathetic? Have you ever wondered what the benefits of being empathetic are? In this article, we list nine of the benefits of being empathetic that experts have suggested. Anyway, the big question is, do you think we’re empathetic to make ourselves feel better or to make others feel better?
The benefits listed here relate to the quality of interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, and the ability to help and understand others. Perhaps they’ll encourage you to practice and improve your empathy!
Comes from this huge site -
The Benefits of Being Empathetic - Exploring your mind
All the best!
The benefits listed here relate to the quality of interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, and the ability to help and understand others. Perhaps they’ll encourage you to practice and improve your empathy!
Comes from this huge site -
The Benefits of Being Empathetic - Exploring your mind
All the best!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Another huge site -
"Kindness is compassion in action. It is a way of taking the vital human emotions of empathy or sympathy and channeling those emotions into a real-life confrontation with ruthlessness, abandonment, thoughtlessness, loneliness — all the myriad ways, every single day, we find ourselves suffering or witnessing suffering in others.
"Yet growing up I had the impression that a kind heart ranked awfully low in cultural desirability, well after a sound head, a sharp wit, invulnerability, power over others, a fine sense of irony, and countless other qualities. The hero I saw displayed in the movies was fiercely resolute; the sidekick, trailing after the hero, picking up the pieces, might have been kind. The owerwhelmingly popular girl on TV was striking, imposing, amusing; the second banana was usually kind, and a lot less magnetic or interesting.
Read more -
The Force of Kindness by Sharon Salzburg | Book Excerpt | Spirituality & Practice
Enjoy your day!
"Kindness is compassion in action. It is a way of taking the vital human emotions of empathy or sympathy and channeling those emotions into a real-life confrontation with ruthlessness, abandonment, thoughtlessness, loneliness — all the myriad ways, every single day, we find ourselves suffering or witnessing suffering in others.
"Yet growing up I had the impression that a kind heart ranked awfully low in cultural desirability, well after a sound head, a sharp wit, invulnerability, power over others, a fine sense of irony, and countless other qualities. The hero I saw displayed in the movies was fiercely resolute; the sidekick, trailing after the hero, picking up the pieces, might have been kind. The owerwhelmingly popular girl on TV was striking, imposing, amusing; the second banana was usually kind, and a lot less magnetic or interesting.
Read more -
The Force of Kindness by Sharon Salzburg | Book Excerpt | Spirituality & Practice
Enjoy your day!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Been quite a while since I read these printouts -
The Secret to a Happy Life: 21 Practices (Step-by-Step Guide)
You forget!!
The Secret to a Happy Life: 21 Practices (Step-by-Step Guide)
You forget!!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
From the Tiny Buddha site -
I think we could all use a little extra love and kindness right now. We could all use a reminder that even when times are tough, people care. And that’s what really matters. Not that we have everything we want, but we have everything we need, because people are looking out for us.
And really, I think that’s that foundation of kindness: paying attention. Noticing when people are struggling, or when they’re in need of ear, or when they could use a little encouragement or motivation to keep moving forward. Noticing the good in people and acknowledging what we see.
In our easily distracted world, a little attention truly is the best gift we can give anyone, because we all want to feel seen, heard, valued, and understood. At the end of the day, even the hardest of challenges feel a lot easier when we know we’re not alone.
Read the ten suggestions here -
How to Make Someone Smile: 10 Mindful Acts of Kindness - Tiny Buddha
I think we could all use a little extra love and kindness right now. We could all use a reminder that even when times are tough, people care. And that’s what really matters. Not that we have everything we want, but we have everything we need, because people are looking out for us.
And really, I think that’s that foundation of kindness: paying attention. Noticing when people are struggling, or when they’re in need of ear, or when they could use a little encouragement or motivation to keep moving forward. Noticing the good in people and acknowledging what we see.
In our easily distracted world, a little attention truly is the best gift we can give anyone, because we all want to feel seen, heard, valued, and understood. At the end of the day, even the hardest of challenges feel a lot easier when we know we’re not alone.
Read the ten suggestions here -
How to Make Someone Smile: 10 Mindful Acts of Kindness - Tiny Buddha
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
From that search -
Bringing kindness can transform the quality of your mindfulness practice. By focusing on kindness in practice, the quality of mindfulness tends to shift from just “being as it is” to “being as it is in a positive way.” Of course, karma is inextricably linked to kindness, since even your thoughts have karmic potentiality according to many teachers. Approach mindfulness with kindness transforms the experience.
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Random Acts of Kindness Creates Good Karma. Mindful Acts of Kindness Refines Practice. - Buddha Weekly: Buddhist Practices, Mindfulness, Meditation
Plus check-out their menus - I am off to do just that!
Bringing kindness can transform the quality of your mindfulness practice. By focusing on kindness in practice, the quality of mindfulness tends to shift from just “being as it is” to “being as it is in a positive way.” Of course, karma is inextricably linked to kindness, since even your thoughts have karmic potentiality according to many teachers. Approach mindfulness with kindness transforms the experience.
Read more -
Random Acts of Kindness Creates Good Karma. Mindful Acts of Kindness Refines Practice. - Buddha Weekly: Buddhist Practices, Mindfulness, Meditation
Plus check-out their menus - I am off to do just that!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
"Loving-kindness and compassion shine through the shutters in those moments when we spontaneously give aid or comfort to someone, not out of self-interest or thinking we might get something in return, but just because it seems the right thing to do. It may be something as simple as offering people a shoulder to cry on when they’re in pain or helping someone cross the street, or it may involve a longer-term commitment, like sitting by the bedside of someone ill or dying. We’ve all heard, too, of extreme instances in which someone, without even thinking about the risk to his or her life, jumps into a river to save a stranger who is drowning.’"
- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom.
Found on this site -
Moments of Compassion
Use the search button for even more quotes!
Cheers!
- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom.
Found on this site -
Moments of Compassion
Use the search button for even more quotes!
Cheers!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Book about human kindness on this list from Greater Good -
Many of us have a dim view of humanity. We believe people are selfish and cruel at heart and that only strict social control keeps their evil natures in check.
But, according to historian Rutger Bregman, that view is dead wrong. Instead, we were born to be kind, generous, and cooperative, and we need to understand that truth to create a society that nurtures our better instincts.
Bregman sifts through historical accounts, anthropological findings, and scientific evidence to show that when people are under duress or given opportunities to be selfish, they usually act with kindness instead. He counters old narratives that might make us think otherwise, including the story of Kitty Genovese’s murder in Queens, where bystanders supposedly did nothing, and the outcome of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, where participants seemed to turn sadistic. In both cases, says Bregman, flawed analyses of what actually happened led to misunderstandings of human nature that are still, unfortunately, perpetuated today.
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Our Favorite Books of 2020 | Greater Good
Merry Christmas to all our loyal readers!
Many of us have a dim view of humanity. We believe people are selfish and cruel at heart and that only strict social control keeps their evil natures in check.
But, according to historian Rutger Bregman, that view is dead wrong. Instead, we were born to be kind, generous, and cooperative, and we need to understand that truth to create a society that nurtures our better instincts.
Bregman sifts through historical accounts, anthropological findings, and scientific evidence to show that when people are under duress or given opportunities to be selfish, they usually act with kindness instead. He counters old narratives that might make us think otherwise, including the story of Kitty Genovese’s murder in Queens, where bystanders supposedly did nothing, and the outcome of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, where participants seemed to turn sadistic. In both cases, says Bregman, flawed analyses of what actually happened led to misunderstandings of human nature that are still, unfortunately, perpetuated today.
Scroll down to number 3 on this list -
Our Favorite Books of 2020 | Greater Good
Merry Christmas to all our loyal readers!