I have this radical idea that I’m not really listening unless I’m willing to be changed by you.”
Quote by Alan Alda
We humans are all intimately interconnected. How we treat each other matters to the health and well-being, perhaps even the survival, of us all as a species, not in some vague future, but in this very moment. Kindness is the natural response to recognizing interconnectedness. And in that kindness is true wisdom.
Coronavirus has shown us in a significant way, we are truly intimately interconnected. Kindness matters.
“From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are carefully marked on how many we got wrong on a test and, rarely if ever, asked how we know how to spell the ones we got right. By the time we are adults, we are well versed in every one of our limitations, skilled in our incompetence.
Aristotle said that one’s purpose is merely a matter of knowing where one’s talents and the needs of the world intersect.”
Cultivating, developing and setting free one’s gifts is essential to fulfilling living one’s life on purpose.