Build that inner core and it starts to radiate love and kindness, our natural state of being, outwardly. — If you believe Mr. Rogers, and I do, every day is a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Certainly, some days it is hard to recognize this and far be it for me to tell anyone that they must. …

Doing so, you’ll come to recognize that completing the repetitious tasks in your life moves you closer to peace on earth. — We all have repetitious tasks that may seem tedious, even boring to do, so much so that we might complete them on auto-pilot. But these are often the tasks that need to get to done to ensure the bigger projects get done. If it helps, think about what happens to…

The cosmos listens and responds. — Understandably, many of us are confused by and nervous about many things, climate change, politics, war, the coronavirus pandemic. In times like these, it is natural for our in-built negativity bias to kick in. So while it’s true that as humans we tend to dwell on negative things, we can…

Into the shop we went and up to the counter our chosen representatives went, a teen and an elder, with a couple of dollars in loose change. — For nearly 30 years I’ve been facilitating classes on the topic of kindness and throughout this time participants in these classes have most enjoyed and felt good about those kindness actions they completed anonymously. One of my favorite kindness stories comes from when I was facilitating an in-person intergenerational kindness…

Following these four steps, you’ll find you’re actually living the life you want to live now and not waiting for that future achievement to be reached. — Over the years as an educator, I often told my students what I think is a pretty sound strategy for being happy and feeling purposeful. I told them it’s a secret, but really it’s not. It’s pretty simple, although lots of things conspire to make it complicated. …

Positive opportunities are being presented to us daily by nature. — Positive opportunities are being presented to us daily by nature. These opportunities are a form of kindness to us that most of us need practice identifying. As such, start spending time looking for these opportunities in your life, even in hindsight. Choose at least one and allow it to fill…

Loving Kindness is All Around Me —

A good place to start practicing this is with the weather. See each day’s weather as a friend who has come to have a cup of tea with you. — Consider for a minute any part of your life that causes you some stress. Got it? Hold it in your mind both carefully and gently, carefully so that it does not cause you additional stress by bringing it forward, and gently so that you can take a minute to consider…

In the right environment, those things truly valued in a culture will be naturally acquired by children as they grow. — Back when I was the Director of the Puget Sound Community School (PSCS), I often offered a class called “The Importance of Virtue.” I began the first class session by telling the students the class was predicated on a couple of my personal beliefs: There exists a way of behaving…