Loving-kindness is defined as an openhearted nurturing to ourselves and others. The golden rule says‚ “Treat others just the way you want to be treated.” Kindness and compassion are all qualities that live in humans. By practicing kindness toward others we give a gift to ourselves and it has benefits just by doing it. There is a scientific evidence for why loving kindness works. Our emotions are shaped by our thoughts. Our loving-kindness practice helps us to feel more positive‚ kind‚ and patient
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choose one thing; it would have to be how nice I am. The reason being is because I am way too nice to people that’s when they start to take advantage of me. Also I am too nice sometimes that I can’t control it; I would volunteer to do things from the kindness of my heart without expecting anything in return. It is possible for me to change this characteristic of mine. Many people might like it‚ but for myself I do not like being the nice‚ kind‚ and respectful guy all the time. Living for the past eighteen
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Kindness is something that is rare in each common response‚ although it is one of the most important aspects to any interaction. Many people have disabled their responses on their own by not letting themselves to learn kindness. The two ends of this are strength and weakness. The weak man is the man who is trying to be strong and in effect‚ they act rude. Kindness shows strength and the more you show the stronger you can be. I learned how to be kind to others and how to stand up for myself without
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The Power Of Kindness I hate fish. No matter what kind of fish‚ I will avoid eating it at all costs. But that early afternoon in a tiny town named Zacapuato‚ Jalisco‚ Mexico‚ I learned to eat every crumb on my plate‚ even if it is fish. Our hosts were generous‚ heart-warming people who had offered my grandparents‚ my sister‚ and I a place to stay for about 5 days during our 3-week trip. My sister and I had the opportunity to take a trip down to Mexico with our grandparents to become fluent in Spanish
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Sarah Omer 10/21/13 HLT110 My Act of Kindness Everyone should do something nice to someone at least once in his or her lifetime. Kindness is the act or the state if charitable behavior to other people. Doing something kind to someone makes you feel great about yourself. People also look at you in a better way when they notice your act of kindness. That’s why I decided to do an act of kindness. On Saturday‚ I decided to take a walk with my friends in DC. While I was taking a walk we noticed
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A heart without kindness is like empty shell. We channel the same kindness towards meaningful purpose. Once kindness has been set to motion‚ it moves around until it reaches us again. It cannot be diminished by anyone. Kindness is never lost as long as there are people who keep on reviving it. According to what I believe‚ kindness always lays dormant ready to be activated‚ but incapable of doing anything. It is like a calm air which cannot be utilized for anything‚ but when that air turns into
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everything that ever would be was contained within the Creator as pure potentiality. This field without end created vessels through which its divine energy could pass and differentiate‚ each representing a specific attribute‚ such as wisdom‚ compassion‚ kindness and strength. The energy being transmitted was so powerful that the vessels shattered. It is said that some of these shattered pieces of divine energy fell to earth as sparks where they have remained all these eons. He and I believe that one
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A Complicated Kindness- Miriam Toews Catherine Arnold I recently read a book called A Complicated Kindness‚ by Miriam Toews. The protagonist is a teenage girl named Nomi. Nomi is growing up trapped in a small Mennonite community called East Village in the middle of nowhere‚ in Canada. All her life Nomi was told what to believe‚ with heavy emphasis on the belief that living dutifully and by the word of God in this life would guarantee salvation in
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The Loving Story The journey that Richard and Mildred Loving took is important for history and for the future of civil rights in the United States. I recently watched the documentary The Loving Story and enjoyed the footage‚ pictures‚ and interviews of everyone involved in the Loving v. Virginia case. The documentary addressed the issue of interracial marriage in Virginia in 1967. The married partners‚ Richard and Mildred‚ were woken up in the middle of the night and were criminally charged for
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“Fire and Rain” by James Taylor is a song mentioned in A Complicated Kindness that Nomi can relate to easily. James Taylor was born March‚ 12th 1948 in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ although he was mainly raised in North Carolina. By age 14‚ Taylor was writing songs‚ singing‚ and had learned to play the guitar and cello. In 1966‚ he moved to New York City to form a band with some of his friends and by the end of the year they were performing regularly at cafes. Unfortunately‚ while in New York‚ Taylor lost
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