“Convert none, help all.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Again and again, the book shows how so-called Homo sapiens fail at even the simplest logic problems. But they're fast and fantastic at figuring out who's in and who's out, who's up and who's down, who should be heaped with praise and who must be punished without mercy. Ability to execute simple acts of reason? Feeble. Skill at herding each other? Utterly, endlessly brilliant.”
Source: The Overstory
“Being nice is often about avoiding conflict, letting inappropriate actions slide, or bottling up words and actions that ought to be spoken and enacted to prevent creating an uncomfortable scene. At its worst, being nice reinforces actions and attitudes that strip away human dignity.”
Source: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
“. . . if we do not continue to choose kindness together, can you imagine how much worse the world will become? The least we can do in response to and in gratitude for all those kindness giants who have paved the way is to do the same for the generations to come.”
Source: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
“As a river flowing beyond mountains,
Far over the horizon it flows.
No one knows where its water goes,
what it touches or where it comes close.
Encouragement can move mountains,
Mountains of desperation and need.
Who would know its effect or its deed?
Who’d know the hungry it’ll feed?”
Source: Unexpected: Five Inspirational Short Stories of Encouragement
“Risk stepping into the mess because, more times than not, on the other side of the tension there are new beginnings, strengthened relationships, and the knowledge that conflict is not something to avoid, but a means to a deeper, stronger, and kinder world.”
Source: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
“Expressions of kindness in times of social change and public protest should focus on those who are seeking justice and liberation and not on the ones whose privileged worlds are being disrupted by the leveling of a social playing field or a correction in disparities of access, power, or authority.”
“Kindness that is fueled by guilt, pity, or colonialism is not kindness at all. Kindness is not currency or a commodity to be used to barter and bargain away the sins of our past or to alleviate our responsibility to be part of global recovery efforts in times of tragedy.”
Source: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
“Sometimes people try so hard to be right that they forget the importance of being kind.”
“I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world...
...I have tried to show how we mortals can attain such wisdom...
...and I've decided you're a pillock.
[click on the thumbnail, art by Andrew Christine]”
Source: Beau Peep: Book Thirteen