Kindness

Well, we are leaving the New Jersey/New York area, and we have seen everyone we wanted to (except for one) and done everything we set out to do.
More on that later. Here’s a quote from Sharon Salzberg, keep it in mind today:
“The quality of kindness gives us the ability to take abstract ideals like compassion, or ‘love they neighbor,’ and make them authentic and palpable and vibrant each and every day, going to work or going to school or going home, or getting through a situation we would never in a million years have chosen. When we really examine kindness we find it is a deep and abiding understanding of how connected we are. We see that kindness inspires a sense of ethics independent of any religious adherence, which can guide our families, communities, and the world we live in towards realizing greater safety and peace. I think this spirit underlies one of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s most famous quotations: ‘My true religion is kindness.’ ”
An excerpt from The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion by Sharon Salzberg