Echoes of kind words are endless

A few words of encouragement will make a person think of you fondly sometime in the future. When we go through our lives smiling and happy we are bound to find more people smiling back at us. What person would you rather remember? That guy who encouraged you while you were new at work or the guy who chided you when you messed up? We may not be at the edge of a cliff but what we speak echo from the people we interact with, while we are alive and then some.  The harsh words may hurt you from inside but a kind word is what is what short but has a peaceful meaning to you. Not every short and kind word do the effect, but every sharp one does. One curse definitely goes back and rubs his skin of the giver. Similarly kind and short words bothers the adrenaline of the listener.

Many people define kindness by lack of judgment, complete acceptance, or saying or doing things others like. Even though that is a popular way to understand kindness, it is wrong because it only describes a small part of kindness. That definition is incomplete and shallow. True kindness can be understood by some of its synonyms: benignity, benevolence, charity, compassion, generosity, or sympathy.

The kindness describes the motivation behind the actions and people tend to focus on that. But kindness also tells the other person hard truths when that is what’s best for them. If a doctor acted kindly in accordance to the popular definition, he would not tell the patient that the mole on their skin is a type of cancer. He would “accept them as they are” and be “non-judgmental”. He would “support their lifestyle decisions” of staying uncovered and unprotected from the sun…and they would likely die. To be truly kind, the doctor should, out of a sense of benevolence for the person and as sympathetically as he can, tell the patient that they have a cancer that must be treated.

When a person’s behavior is so off-putting that they are turning people away and are likely to have no friends or be unsuccessful in life, it would be kind to tell them so and give them the chance to change. So true kindness is about celebrating the good and healthy in folk but also honestly recognizing and despising the bad and unhealthy in them – because it is bad and unhealthy for them. Kindness is not expressed in blunt truth spoken because the speaker is hurt – it is blunt truth spoken because the listener is injuring themselves or embarrassing themselves.

Kindness is state of being as part of collective human experience and doing something to alleviate suffering. Kindness is one of the key elements of Spiritual lifestyle due to the understanding of the connectedness; inter dependence of all living beings in the World. Kindness is the highest level of compassion and includes six basic virtues latent in every human soul. These virtues of love, kindness, mercy, forgiveness, non-violence and generosity are spread through compassion.

These virtues taught by /the Brahma Kumaris are manifested by the soul in the form of awareness, attitude, vision and action (both speech and physical actions). Because of the need of current crisis, compassion as a spiritual experiment to help our hearts and souls to a more elevated response, one requiring resilience and flexibility as a call of the current time.

Kindness is a gesture of selflessness. It is offered to another with no real way of knowing how it will be received. But we do it anyway. When we witness an act of kindness we fall in love with the giver as much as the receiver. It’s the most human of all gestures and imprints on us forever. Stay blessed! #kishoreshintre #possessedbywritingspirit #ks850articles,#proudtobeindian