Friday, March 8, 2019

Doing Good


"We shall pass this way on Earth but once, if there is any kindness we can show, or good act we can do, let us do it now, for we will never pass this way again."
Stephen Grellet

In my attempt to avoid politics for the next week, at least in my writings, I thought I would start off by pondering how we measure kindness without becoming condescending or consciously becoming a do-gooder for egoistic reasons. I was listening to an interview of the author of “Don’t Label Me” (Irshad Manji) which I thought was very fascinating because it really delved deeply into one’s need to listen to other people without an agenda. It struck me that quite often even though we may be listening with empathy there is a secret agenda to somehow influence or change that person in one way or other. Mea culpa. One doesn’t always intentionally have this agenda but frequently it will creep in during the conversation.

I don’t know that I have more to say on this - just be kind, as Ellen says.

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