“When you buy an ice cream cone for the kid who just dropped his chocolate scoop, you
buy more than ice cream. If you are in a long line of cars and you let someone turn in from a side
street, you momentarily turn the asphalt jungle into a safe haven. Letting the stranger behind you
go first in the grocery line means there are fewer strangers in the world at that moment. When you
take some carnations to the elderly widow at the end of the block, you treat yourself to wisdom
beyond your years. And if you take the time to leave a message on an answering machine to cheer
up a depressed person, you put a human face on the technology that surrounds (and sometimes
threatens) us. In the process of acting compassionately, you give yourself the power to experience
a cleansing moment of unselfishness.”
~ Martin Kimeldorf
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