In our lives, we have two or three opportunities to be a hero, but almost every day, we have the opportunity not to be a coward.
~ Spanish Proverb
I haven’t written much about Random Acts of Kindness. I work from a home office, so my daily – face to face – interaction with people is fairly limited.
I absolutely love that last photo and quote sent to me by my friend, and fellow lightworker, Christina Curtin. My RAKs over the past month have been small in nature. Individually not worth mentioning. Every morning, I set my intention for the day to be open to the possibility of kindness. This means emptying my own mind of thoughts, so I can actually hear people when they speak. This means opening my heart to feeling things that are both pleasant and unpleasant and feeling them both the same. This means lending a hand when I feel tired.
RAK is a mindfulness practice. I learned the concept of mindfulness from a book, when I found myself feeling stuck in life. Unhappy.
This book is “Mindfulness in Plain English” by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana. I also can highly recommend his book “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness”. They have become my guidebooks for living a happy life.
Bhante G writes. “Every evil deed, every example of heartlessness in the world, stems directly from this false sense of ‘me’ as distinct from everything else. If you explode the illusion of that one concept, your whole universe changes. Don’t expect to be able to do this overnight, though. You spent your whole life building up that concept, reinforcing it with every thought, word and deed over all those years. It is not going to evaporate instantly. But it will pass if you give it enough time and attention. Vipassana meditation is a process by which that concept is dissolved. Little by little, you chip away at it, just by observing it.”
Little by little, and I am so much happier and connected than I was four years ago when I picked up that book.
