The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. ~anon.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but random acts of kindness make it grow larger. ~anon.
More Kent Nerburn:
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
*Kent Nerburn has been deeply involved in Native American issues and education. He developed and directed an award-winning oral history project on the Red Lake Ojibwe reservation in Northern Minnesota.
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