Kindhearted

Today I am grateful for modern medicine and good health care. I am also grateful for the stars I could  view in the pre-dawn sky this morning.

After itchy and jaded, I need a word like kindhearted: caring, empathetic, patient, helpful, sympathetic. Aspiring to be kindhearted to myself and others each day is a good goal. Even thinking about the word kindhearted has a calming and quieting effect.

I was kindhearted to myself yesterday morning when I was short on time. It was either go for a short run or write a blog post. I chose the run because I knew my body and mind would probably benefit more from that, considering the day I had ahead of me.

Kindness comes from our soul, and I choose to look at it this way: I have an individual soul but I am also part of the collective soul of humanity and all living things. Kindhearted actions add good to that collective soul.

And this quote from Rumi wraps it up nicely:

"When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. 

Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current."  

Spread freshness and joy today with kindhearted intentions and actions.