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August
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Today's
Quotation:
Rest assured that, generally speaking, others are
acting in
exactly the same
manner that you would under exactly
the same circumstances.
Hence, be kind, understanding,
empathetic, compassionate, and loving.
Gary W. Fenchuk
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Today's
Meditation:
It's
very easy to be judgmental of other people when we're not
going through the same things they are. If we were to
step back, though, and ask ourselves what may be making
people act the way they do, we might find causes that we
never might have considered, and we might understand their
actions much more.
Longfellow
spoke of the concept of walking a mile in another person's
moccasins, and he definitely wasn't the first person to
speak of such a thing. Someone else said that if we
were to throw everyone's problems into a huge pile, once we
saw some of the things that other people are going through
we would be more than glad to take our own problems back.
Kind.
Understanding. Empathetic. Compassionate.
Loving.
These
are qualities that we would love to see in other people, but
how are they ever going to know that it's okay to live this
way if we don't model it for them? How can we model
these qualities if we don't feel them, if we don't do our
best to see the best in other people, if we don't try to
understand what others are going through as they make their
ways through life?
We
all know what it's like to be judged, so let's not do the
judging ourselves. Let us be kind to one another, and
let us try to understand what others need in their lives
before we act swiftly to condemn them or the things that
they do. If the world is to become a kinder, gentler
place, then the transformation must begin somewhere.
Let it begin with us.
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Questions to ponder:
1. What are some things we can do to
try to become
more kind and compassionate?
2. When all is said and done, do we
have the right to judge others
and the things they do? Where does that right come
from?
3. What kinds of positive things can
we contribute to the world if we insist on being
judgmental? What can we contribute if we act more
kindly? |
For further thought:
You
have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of
this world's
happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere
appreciation
to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will forget
tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient
may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale
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