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Kindness Daily: Thank You For Your Thank You

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Thank You For Your Thank You May 31, 2012 – Posted by pluto178

This morning I received a beautiful hand-made card in the post. The envelope was marked "Thank you!" and I didn’t open it immediately whilst I tried to work out who it had come from. Who could be saying thanks to me?

Happily I had a few choices. When I opened it I discovered it was from a lady I had sent a free gift to on eBay.

She was completely overwhelmed by this random act of kindness from a stranger and has since joined the HelpOthers family.

She had made the card especially for me with pink butterflies on the front. It was lovely! The thing that surprised me the most was that she actually used the words "I love you" to me. How wonderful to be such a positive spirit as to love so freely . Most of us are very cautious when using those three words.

I hope she enjoys the stories she finds on HelpOthers and I am sure she will be finding new ways to spread love and kindness too.

Thank you for sending me your love, which I know will lift my whole day!

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May 31, 2012

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All of the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

– Blaise Pascal –

Meditating with Dinosaurs … Really?

“When I first encountered Pascal’s words, I felt like they were telling me, in a poetic way, to sit down and shut up, and that just felt, well… sort of rude. It also felt a bit insulting, in suggesting that for myself or for others, we bring a chunk of our suffering onto ourselves because we’re too cowardly to sit quietly and face our thoughts and our feelings. Over time, however, the quote grew on me. I began to see its truth based on my own experience and from many years of listening to clients describe the pain that comes from not feeling connected to themselves. Finding time to sit quietly in a room is no easy task for any of us. I know for myself, even before having kids, it was hard to find time for such non-activity.” This thoughtful article describes the insights one woman discovered about stillness amidst a circle of her children’s toy dinosaurs. { read more }