Kindness often shows up when we are with each other.  An apple is a simple thing but look at the glow in the eyes that it creates.

But what about when we’re not together physically?  What power do we have to touch other souls from a distance?

I wonder.

At one of the Buddhist retreats I attended, a teacher told us that every minute of every day, someone in the world is saying a version of these words:

May you be free from danger

May you be happy

May you be healthy

May you live with ease

The “you” spoken to may be an individual person but I feel in my heart that it includes all of us.  So someone somewhere is blessing my life right now.  Not knowing the individual called Bruce … but knowing deeply that my joys and sorrows flow through all of mankind.

And so I receive.  But it’s not a one-way street.  I give.  I give when I’m out there in the world, whether or not other eyes meet mine.  And I give right now, alone in my living room.  I give to all the “you’s” that surround me on Earth … in this instant.  Before I proofread my words and eventually press “Publish”.

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We are powerful … for good or ill

Let’s make it for good