{"id":2537,"date":"2007-12-12T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/kindness"},"modified":"2009-01-18T15:16:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T14:16:26","slug":"kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/kindness","title":{"rendered":"Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Kindness in words creates confidence.
\nKindness in thinking creates profundity.
\nKindness in giving creates love.”<\/p>\n

– Lao Tse<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kindness<\/b><\/p>\n

Kindness glides about my house.
\nDame Kindness, she is so nice!
\nThe blue and red jewels of her rings smoke
\nIn the windows, the mirrors
\nAre filling with smiles.<\/p>\n

What is so real as the cry of a child?
\nA rabbit’s cry may be wilder
\nBut it has no soul.
\nSugar can cure everything, so Kindness says.
\nSugar is a necessary fluid,
\nIts crystals a little poultice.<\/p>\n

O kindness, kindness
\nSweetly picking up pieces!
\nMy Japanese silks, desperate butterflies,
\nMay be pinned any minute, anesthetized.<\/p>\n

And here you come, with a cup of tea
\nWreathed in steam.
\nThe blood jet is poetry,
\nThere is no stopping it.
\nYou hand me two children, two roses.<\/p>\n

– Sylvia Plath <\/a><\/p>\n

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Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.<\/p>\n

When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.<\/p>\n

– HH the Dalai Lama<\/a>, The Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1989\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n“Random Acts of Kindness”
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And … take a look at the website of the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation!<\/p><\/div>\n

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