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Habit Five: Kindness
by Bruce 01/05/07
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“Man finds happiness only in serving his neighbour. And he finds it here because he is in communion with the divine spirit that lives within them”, said Tolstoy. Kindness (including gratitude, forgiveness, selflessness, and respect) is as solid a pillar of smiley spirituality as any of the others. In fact this is the first of two habits which have as their focus other people.
Read the introduction to the Seven Habits of Smiley Spiritual People and the previous habit 4 in this series.
The link to happiness is strong with this habit. Try any act of kindness over an act of self gratification and compare the results. Plan two activities: the first to be an act of personal pleasure; indulge yourself and your senses. The second is to be an act of kindness to someone else. And see which results in lasting memories and happiness.
It would be possible to labour the point here but the core message is that healthy, smiley spirituality may start with habits that help you understand and balance yourself but the whole point is how you then make the world a better place – God has no hands here apart from yours.
The laudable concept of random acts of kindness has been around for ages. Undertake some gorilla kindness and scamper away. Don’t demand reward or acknowledgment (but do relish it if you get it). As a lover of all things random here is my random, random acts of kindness generator. Click the white lines of text one by one and invent an action based on the instructions. Leave a comment below about what you got and what you did.
Random Act of Kindness Generator.
Or you could just look out for opportunities to be kind during the coming week.
Next in the series. Habit 6: Community.
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The random act of kindness generator assigned me an act that had to be secret, benefit the environment, & done for a stranger-a 10/10 difficulty! It took me a while to figure out what to do.
I ended up anonymously funding three nondisposable coffee travel mugs to be given away at my local coffee shop to the first three people that would otherwise receive paper cups. The anonymous part was tricky; I dropped into the tips jar enough money to cover the mugs (and a good tip) attached to a note explaining my donation. Hopefully they followed through on it; since it was in secret, I couldn’t really ask what happened.
I’m tempted to get another random act from the generator & get my family involved. It’s pretty fun to scheme about being a secret benefactor…
My random act:
Had to be for a stranger
Had to happen more than once
Had to be shared
I found a nice card in an Oxfam shop, wrote inside it:
“I hope you have a nice weekend. Share a cup of tea with a friend”
and then slipped two tea-bags into the envelope. Then I left it on a random seat of a busy commuter train with “To the person who sits here, whoever you may be” written on the envelope.
Hopefully the tea will be the bit that is ’shared’! I will repeat it again next week.
Thanks for the generator - it has really inspired and challenged me.
Mine was about my partner and it has need to be edible. And it needed to be done right away. 1 hour ago i played a trick to my girlfriend and let our friend, which my gfriend invited for dinner, that she prefer western food for dinner.Because my girl friend is Chinese she doesn’t like that much. So i write to my girlfriend that i can cook for her and our friends today. She really became happy. I didn’t do that much kind things lately to her. Embarrassingly she was also surprised
Thank you.
hmmmmmmm i love it