Kindness
Thinking Out Loud: It’s Time to Take it All Off
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ~ Cesare Pavese
NOTE: I love this bit of wisdom from the Italian poet, Cesare Pavese. Happiness happens when we shed the extra emotional weight we carry. Shedding emotional weight isn’t easy. It takes work and is more like peeling an onion layer by layer. When you think you’re finished peeling, there’s another layer to peel. As we shed our emotional layers we get closer to what were born to be, happy, joyful, grateful, and overflowing with love for ourselves and all of creation.
Today’s Inspiring Quote: Light Up the World Around You
Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.
Wilferd Peterson
Today’s Inspiring Quote: A Good Person’s Reflection
Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Thinking Out Loud: We Are the Creators of Our Personal Universe
“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.” ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemis
NOTE: How do you see the world? Do you believe the news we read online, watch and listen to in other media outlets is the whole truth? We usually obtain what we are seeking. If we seek to discover the bad, we’ll find it. If we seek to discover the good, we’ll find it. In many ways we are the creators of our personal universe. Our minds act as the gatekeepers. I’ve found being grateful each morning and evening helps me to recognize the wonders in my day, no matter how small. I’ve found that a smile often gets me a smile in return. I’ve found that working with others always gets me further ahead than working against.
Desiderata: A Poem by Max Ehrman
Desiderata
Max Ehrman
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Kind Hearts: An Anonymously Written Poem
Kind Hearts
Anonymous
Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the blossoms,
Kind deeds are the fruits;
Love is the sweet sunshine
That warms into life,
For only in darkness
Grow hatred and strife.
