"Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”
Yehuda Berg
I don't know that I admire the author's actions, (short biography below) but I certainly like this quote. Conflict and pain always seem to beget more conflict and pain...
I've been thinking a lot about being kind and many of the ideas are conflicting on the surface ... I'll share some of them ...
because I'm kind!! lol
Being kind is not the easy thing to do, it challenges us beyond our habitual responses.
Being kind is not a wimpy excuse for not standing up to something or someone.
Being kind when we judge someone or something not worthy and threatening to ourselves and what we believe in is a tremendous leap of faith and courage
Being kind is not always being "nice" it is staying true to our soul (not our egos) and modelling our truth
Being kind is respecting people we care about enough to let them go their own way with grace and our blessings.
Being kind is not "giving advice" or "criticism" it is respectfully being truthful. Sometimes it is respecting our children and friends enough to let them make their own mistakes and to find their own inner strength by allowing them to find their own solutions.
Being kind is recognizing strangers are people like us and helping them. There is a paradox here with the previous statement, but they are different
Being kind goes beyond people to everything in our environment as well. Maybe if we change our attitude about resources and not take them for granted we can be kind enough to not be so careless. The Earth has given us the resources to live and develop, we can treat these gifts with appreciation not exploitation.
Being kind is the most impactful sword that has power to break cycles of pain, fear, and isolation that people and cultures have had for generations.
Being kind may be the only way that this world can survive and every individual has responsibility for this no matter how small and insignificant we feel our own effort to be.
Being kind means treating our own selves and our bodies in all of the above kind ways
Cheers
Jeanne
Yehuda Berg was a co-director of the Kabbalah Centre, which was founded by his father Philip Berg. However, after allegations of sexual assault and allegations of offering drugs from one of his students,[1][2] he stepped away from the organization. He was later found liable in a civil suit and ordered to pay damages to his victim for inflicting malice and intentional harm.[1][2]
Berg was an international speaker and author. One of his many books, The Power of Kabbalah, became an international best-seller[3] as did another of his books, The 72 Names of God.[3]
In February 2009, Berg launched a radio show on Sirius XM's Stars Channel entitled The Life You Create.[citation needed]
Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה, literally "reception, tradition"[1] or "correspondence"[2]:3) is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought of Judaism.[3] A traditional Kabbalist in Judaism is called a Mequbbāl (מְקוּבָּל).[3] The definition of Kabbalah varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it,[4] from its religious origin as an integral part of Judaism, to its later adaptations in Western esotericism (Christian Kabbalah and Hermetic Qabalah). Jewish Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between God, the unchanging, eternal, and mysterious Ein Sof (אֵין סוֹף, "The Infinite"),[5][6] and the mortal and finite universe (God's creatio
Jewish Kabbalists originally developed their own transmission of sacred texts within the realm of Jewish tradition,[3][7] and often use classical Jewish scriptures to explain and demonstrate its mystical teachings. These teachings are held by followers in Judaism to define the inner meaning of both the Hebrew Bible and traditional rabbinic literature and their formerly concealed transmitted dimension, as well as to explain the significance of Jewish religious observances.[8] One of the fundamental kabbalistic texts, the Zohar, was first published in the 13th century, and the almost universal form adhered to in modern Judaism is Lurianic Kabbalah.
Traditional practitioners believe its earliest origins pre-date world religions, forming the primordial blueprint for Creation's philosophies, religions, sciences, arts, and political systems.[9] Historically, Kabbalah emerged after earlier forms of Jewish mysticism, in 12th- to 13th-century Southern France and Spain,[3][7] and was reinterpreted during the Jewish mystical renaissance of 16th-century Ottoman Palestine.[3] Isaac Luria is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah; Lurianic Kabbalah was popularised in the form of Hasidic Judaism from the 18th century onwards.[3] During the 20th-century, academic interest in Kabbalistic texts led primarily by the Jewish historian Gershom Scholem has inspired the development of historical research on Kabbalah in the field of Judaic studies.[10][11]
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