In this talk, Zach explores the power of kindness and explores different ways to cultivate our capacity to be kind. By recognizing the impact of our kind actions, setting an intention to be kind, and reflecting at the end of our day on how kind we were, our kindness blooms like a flower.
Intro Poem, Shaped by the Shapeless, is part of the Drinking Roses on Sunday collection.
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As the farmer channels water to their land, so the wise one directs kindness and compassion to their own mind.
– Buddha
Love is much bigger than relationships
Love is the way you heal yourself
The kindness you give others
The gentleness you give yourself in turbulent times
The space you hold for close friends,
The intention with which you live in the present
And the energy that changes the world
Love is every moment that elevates the human experience
And the small things that make life shine
– Yung Pueblo
The fragrance of flowers drifts with the wind as sandalwood, jasmine of lavender. But the fragrance of good actions goes further than the wind, encompasses the world, and even goes to the heavens.
– Buddha
One kind word can warm three winter months.
– Japanese Proverb
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
– Stephen Vincent Benét
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
– Plato
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
― Stephen Grellet
To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you.
And know there is more
That you can’t see, can’t hear,
Can’t know except in moments
Steadily growing, and in languages
That aren’t always sound but other
Circles of motion.
Like eagle that Sunday morning
Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky
In wind, swept our hearts clean
With sacred wings.
We see you, see ourselves and know
That we must take the utmost care
And kindness in all things.
Breathe in, knowing we are made of
All this, and breathe, knowing
We are truly blessed because we
Were born, and die soon within a
True circle of motion,
Like eagle rounding out the morning
Inside us.
We pray that it will be done
In beauty.
In beauty.
– Joy Harjo
