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“Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.” -Rumi
Choosing Kindness…
Just like our outer world, our inner world is full of complex contradictions.
Some say that our duty as human beings is to balance these inner conflicts and live humanly, by following the rules of humanity and goodness towards one another.
Perhaps, one of the most valued and at the same time most neglected qualities of human-beings is kindness.
Kindness is the pinnacle of humanity in a way, yet it does not belong to only humans, every being with developed senses, understands kindness to some extent, and depending on its nature, it will give it value or reward.
The center of kindness is beyond time and place! That is, choosing kindness comes to place when we eliminate need from neediness without the slightest concern. Kindness in other words is looking, without even looking at oneself, or at reason.
At that moment when kindness rises, we are lost in doing an action without taking into account the desire of selfishness that stops us from meeting the needs of others, and this is the point where the hardness of our heart is defeated by the kindness inside us. Kindness is soft, and pure and therefore it’s softness can be felt by anyone who has even the slightest connection to their core feelings.
Kindness in other words and as it has been said for generations, is both the essence existence and the root, of creation of ‘goodness’ in the physical and spiritual realms.
And love, which is related closely to the kindness, is the center of all heartfelt affections.
As, the two attributes of forgiveness and kindness are constantly come together to show the grace of a merciful and beauty of being alive beyond existence.
This feature is the common language of nations. It is not necessary to be from a particular country or to be fluent in an international language. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” -Mark Twain
We always understand the kindness of holding hands in need in any situation. Our soul understands and knows kindness. The soul knows, because it is familiar with our existence. This is a quality that has deposited in everyone. The source of this characteristic is beyond our limited understanding of physical existence, and each of us humans is a branch to carry this characteristic and spread it around us with compassion.
Kindness Needs To Flow!
One of the characteristics of this attribute is that it must always flow. As if its nature will change otherwise! Just like the flow of water that makes the surrounding areas fertile. Stagnant water turns into a cesspool. Kindness is the same, it needs to avoid stagnation and should flow around, as the rivers and streams go to the sea and the oceans, to keep the earth balanced, kindness needs to flow in the earth, to keep the balance of the world and if you may, the universe!
Kindness Is Not Selfish, So It Makes Us And Others Feel Good
Fortunately, these days, sometimes we have witnessed the manifestation of this attribute in different and beautiful forms, which has had a beautiful feedback in virtual networks and media and has been very influential. The photos and videos of being kind or even more beautifully choosing to be kind to others goes viral and makes us all smile with the feeling of empathy in us, we all like the random acts of kindness, being a police officer going out of their way to help others, strangers stopping on the way to lend a hand to another person or animal, the ones protecting the nature, or the countless un-named heroes saving lives day and night, lending hands, and making the world more beautiful by bringing peace the the world, who share their care and kindness in the extents beyond our sights, and to destinations beyond our reach. “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
We will certainly be more satisfied if we ourselves are the first actors of this beautiful and influential role. But reading and watching these acts gives us a happy and calm mood, as it can touch our roots that are all connected to one another by the same thing, we all understand the real kindness and connect with it with our souls.
Kindness Without Expectations
When someone is just simply kind to us, even with smallest kind gesture such as a stranger holding to door for us, or when we offer such kindness to the people around us, this action which comes without expectations and with pure willing to just put a simple act without it having any benefits for us. Acts just like the water that flows in the rivers, the the example above. The water flows evenly along the path and waters everything in its path. This is the nature of running water. Kindness also has this quality. The nature of the authentic seal is that it overflows from within and spreads around. It makes both its owner happy and makes others cheerful and calm.
The Random Acts of Kindness
In a deeper look, kindness goes beyond altruism and helping the needy. To be kind, we don’t need to do activities that are beyond our power, we just need to connect a little more with our inner world and find what is clearly in our hearts. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to sparrows on cold winter days. Even as small as a few pieces of bread. Be as kind to the hard-working neighborhood sweeper as sometimes only a glass of cool water in the heat would be ‘kind’.
Be as kind to the nature around us as planting a plant to display beauty. Let’s remember that if there is a quality like kindness in all of us, we have a duty to take good care of this capital by giving it to the world around us.
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path .” -Buddha
Kindness, Comes From The Goodness Of The Hearts
Most people consider kindness as one of the most important qualities of good people.
Some psychologists have defined kindness as caring and valuing others and helping them without considering personal gain. It is expected that these emotional states will increase in situations where there is no possibility of reciprocation or personal benefit and appear in the form of helpful behaviors.
Kindness is one of the most beautiful human qualities.
The color of kindness has gone so much in the souls of the kind that they always smell of pure humanity. The kind have the fragrance of goodness and pure mercy, a divinely power is always flows from their existence. Caring and being good for no reason, needs hidden powers and those who live with empathy act as if it is their job to be there and to heal, to be kind unconditionally. Just like a gardener caring for the flowers, trying to keep their beautiful and tender, The kind people care for the flowers of life. They care for the broken, the hurt, the misfortunates, not having any other solution but only with their secret magical cure which is their angelic care.
Reach the flowers in the garden of your life on time. Remove the thorns from the root.
Our hearts emotions are thinner than any flower petals. If you don’t reach them, they may wither and become dry. You have to reach the heart of these people before they choose the color grey for their hearts. A flower that is full will not come back to life no matter how much you touch it. It can no longer have that previous freshness except for the magical touch of pure kindness that can heal and cure.
They who can have this amount of empathy and kindness in them prove their beautiful existence without making a claim. Their kindness is not fake, as it has roots in their being. A person knows the difference between true kindness and pretending. But isn’t it beautiful that when it comes to the kindness, even pretending, has its own beauty and values?
And, thus kindness is a label given by actions and behavior. It also comes hand in hand with peace and serenity among human beings and has greater roles in our existence than we sometimes think of!
For instance, when we look at kindness from another point of view, we can understand that it has such a high value that it can sometimes have higher powers beyond anything else for humanity, and it can go to the extent that the lack of it can be combined with ignorance and bring harms to us all, and its existence combined with compassion can be so powerful that it can stop wars!
“Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by war. Our problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy.” –Buddha
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Kindness, Is Just A Word, Its Location Is The Hearts!
Maybe if we knew what kindness does to hearts, and how powerful it is, we would choose kindness above many other things. Kindness is like a multi-piece puzzle. Far from pity and pretense. Yet with generosity of hearts.
So be kind even if others think you are simple. There is magical beauty in simplicity of kindness.
Be kind, spread it in the world and it will not stop by any destination or address! It doesn’t matter where the house built of kindness is or which street. The house of the heart is important, because of the feelings and the light it has. Therefore, the divine chose its home in the hearts.
Let us all have a new universal address: Located on the street of happiness, the dead end of love, the plaque of hope, the floor of kindness and the unit of peace.
Let this generation, be the generation that could choose, to give the inheritance of ‘goodness’ to the future generations, the generation that puts the idea of ‘choosing kindness’ and ’empathy’ above everything… Unbothered… Unconditionally, and simply ‘Kind‘.
“Do a good deed and throw it in the river, one day it will come back to you in the desert.” -Rumi
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