Tales of fate and fortune on the road. A timely collection of 26 inspiring tales, The Kindness of Strangers explores the unexpected human connections that so often transfigure and transform the experience of travel, and celebrates the gift of kindness around the world.
“Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself. You may not be perfect, but you are all you’ve got to work with. The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.”
― Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English
Our habitual tendency is to look past all the good things others have done for us and to instead focus on and replay every real or imagined slight. Finding time in your life to actively cultivate gratefulness is an important part of the practice of loving-kindness.
Gratefulness softens your heart and helps reduce your anger and gratefulness seeds the soil to allow loving kindness to grow naturally into joy and peace.
Schools & colleges are like living organisms. Treat them with toxicity, they produce negative outcomes. Treat them with #kindness, they produce positive outcomes.
Exactly 75 years ago, President Harry S. Truman repudiated 170 years of officially sanctioned discrimination when he signed Executive Order 9981, calling for desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces. This event marked the first time a U.S. commander in chief used executive order to implement a civil rights policy, inspiring America to embrace desegregation in the future.
Great thread from @Deglassco on #transformation.Truman had big flaws (extremely debatable A-bomb use for example) and this thread teaches us some racist thinking remained but he moved policy, and the country forward on race.