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๐ŸŒˆ when kindness ๐ŸŒˆ

Posted: Sun, Nov 9, 2025 09:06:42 AM

is one of my priorities, i am more likely to be supportive, and that helps me grow as an individual. kindness coats me nothing. no matter how many times i say think or feel that sentiment, i am still faced far too often with a choice to be kind or to be indifferent. i am overwhelmed by having to consider that choice, time and again, when it could be my default behavior. well if wishes were horses… this has become one of the principles i have to “practice” by choosing to behave my way into better thinking. i know each time i choose to be kind, it makes it easier to just be kind with little or no stops to roll around inside my head. perhaps, and this may be a stretch, this set of steeps will allow me the freedom to just be kind. i can already see some changes in the direction i want to be moving, in how i react when i am behind the wheel. so maybe that freedom is not out of my reach, after all.
my source material, of course, was not on the topic of being a better me through behaving kindly. its focus was more on the affect i have on my group and fellowship, when i act kindly to those who happen to stumble into the rooms. behaving in such a manner, as suggested by my source material, would create a “butterfly effect” that would ripple through the fellowship. i guess that is certainly something that might happen, however, i am more interested in how it would affect those i interact with and myself. yes i know, my self-centered motives rise to the top, once again! 😂 anyhow, i need to get out and about, as football and cigars are already calling my name. it is a great day to be c lean and i can certainly choose kindness as i walk through my day, just for today.

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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

1) There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and
yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing
that can take precedence of it;--for there is nothing (so effectual)
for which it can be changed.