"The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble — a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions — and exalted — a fireman giving his life to save someone else's. Kindness is love with hands and hearts and minds. It is both whimsical — causing our faces to crack into a smile — and deeply touching — causing our eyes to shimmer with tears. And its miraculous nature is such that the more acts of kindness we offer, the more of them we have to give, for acts of kindness are always drawn from the endless well of love.
"Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe. Kindness heals us, because it reminds us of our oneness, allows us to see ourselves in one another's eyes, to remember that eyes themselves are a miracle, that seeing is a gift, and that the other, no matter who he or she may be, is, in one way or another, a perfect reflection of ourselves.
"The power of kindness is immense. It is nothing less, really, than the power to change the world.”
