By: Jim Ryan
Source: The Daily Guardian https://epaper.
Dated: November 2, 2024
The disruption to social unity and the whittling away of a personal sense of well-being can be greatly resolved if we adopt an attitude of kindness. Kindness is like the missing digit of a secret code of a magic formula that, when discovered, will resolve breakdowns, breakups and disintegration in all attempts at cooperative working.
Kindness is a virtue, that when divinised with spirituality, protects us from the machine gun fire of personal criticism and rejection. We now see with eyes of cooperative softness and with a willingness to align and accept, enabling us to appreciate another's attitude and perspective, so embracing their positive intention, take, and contribution.
The attribute of kindness, especially when we are not in agreement or are seeing and thinking differently from another, shields us from the ego-arrogance of our own opinions and enables us to stay positively connected. Spirituality helps us to adopt such positive, kind expressions as: ‘I like what you said’, ‘I can see your point of view’, ‘I appreciate. I agree. I accept.’. Hearing such appreciative music of kindness makes us feel valued and accepted. This enhancement of self-worth is a crucial factor in our personal spiritual evolvement.
We bring this quality and awareness to the forefront through meditation. Kindness is an innate part of spiritual benevolence, an intrinsic element of one of the soul's major qualities – love. Kindness is an expression of love, and is expressed in our thinking, language and activity, which creates a commonality of spirituality, moving us towards the former redundant ‘humankind’. Human beings, at their height of realisation, are full of love - and this is the driving force of the universe. Our spiritual growth is perceived and experienced to the extent that we allow love and kindness to manifest and be part of our natural nature and are able to respond to all people and all situations in a state of love – and kindness.
Jim Ryan has a background in education.
He is an author and a Brahma Kumaris Rajyoga teacher,
based at the Global Retreat Centre,
Oxford, UK.
