Love is What the World Needs Now I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear. Martin Luther King, Jr. I remember a song that was a part of my life for a few years while I was in college in the 1960s. The words […]
A Man of Peace A Tribute to Balbir Singh Sodhi This may be the world’s only hope for peace: that all of us, brothers and sisters and strangers alike, understand we meet as guests together in ‘God’s own tent.’ […]
Planting Seeds The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson We believe that living with kindness transforms the world – not all at once and not by ourselves alone – but bit-by-bit, day-by-day, through acts of kindness powered by love. Sometimes we see a positive effect from a smile, […]
We Are the World, We Are the Children There comes a time when we heed a certain call when the world must come together as one. Michael Jackson In a journey down Memory Lane this morning, we were led to revisit an old favorite of ours – a song that speaks to us of the present time, just as clearly as it spoke of our world 36 years […]
The Power of Small Acts of Kindness Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love. … Mother Teresa Kindness is the way we spread love in the world. It feels good – in the giving and receiving. The more we experience kindness, the more we connect with others and reinforce the awareness of our kinship. That is […]
How Love and Healing Arose from the Tragedy of Sandy Hook Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut […]
A Time to Remember Our Kinship We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness. … Thick Nhat Han As I write this, Christians world-wide are celebrating Easter, and Jews are celebration Passover – holy days, a time of love and celebration and connection within our spiritual communities. Religious ceremonies have been used for millennia to bring people together, to create a sense of community, of […]
Gratitude is the Wellspring of Kindness The Root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful. it is gratitude that makes us joyful. Brother David Steindl-Rast What do we do when we hear about everything that is going wrong in the world? It is so easy to let our minds carry us […]
Always Stay Humble and Kind “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.” C. S. Lewis Staying humble and kind seems like a prerequisite for being in service to others. This means that our journey on our kindness path is directed by our heart […]
Tapping into the Power of Your Heart “It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.” … Thomas Carlyle The heart is the seat of our power. It holds wisdom that the head cannot reach. It’s in our hearts where we remember that we are connected and that we belong to each other. Everything starts here. What we hold in our hearts shows up […]
Carry On A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeve In considering the factors that support us on our kindness journey, I realized that friends play a key role. When we have someone we can talk to about anything – knowing they […]
We Choose Love Love or fear – What do you choose? … Shawn Gallaway At this time, when there is so much hate and fear in the world around us, we all have a choice to make. We like this song, because it says so clearly what our choice is – Love or fear. We met Shawn Gallaway over 20 years ago, right after he […]
Finding Your Power in a Time of Chaos The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. … Socrates As we approach the transfer of political power in the United States, most of us are still trying to make sense of the outpouring of hatred and violence that is threatening a […]
Putting Judgment on Hold “It’s not things that upset us, it’s our judgment about things.” … Epictetus The key is to find ways to see people and accept them as they are. Sometimes daily interactions can be annoying – a rude comment can trigger a negative feeling. It’s easy to take offense. How do we get past our judgment and respond with kindness? It’s […]
Let’s Allow a Powerful Vision to Guide Us “Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a Reality” ― Roy T. Bennett Do you have a vision of a better world than the one you […]
