The Shatapatha Brahmana recounts how he was warned by a fish, to whom he had done a kindness, that a flood would destroy the whole of humanity.
Generous throughout his life; in his memory, he asked that people do a kindness for someone less fortunate.
Thus, to do a kindness, one must expose oneself to the possibility that one's kindness may be rejected, or misinterpreted.
Ann takes it on herself to do a kindness for C.P.'s family, and this causes him to question his beliefs.
...we scientists have found that doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
The Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chassidic movement, taught that a person can come into this world for an entire lifetime just to do a kindness for another.
When the lights are all green and people are smiling and the call came in and you did a kindness and it felt so wonderful and the shirt fits right and in your heart you understand how the universe works and you don't care that you can't put it into words.
In time, though, when Trott loses some of the hurt that he must inevitably feel, he may come to realise that Gabriel, in administering that dismissal in the manner that he did, has done him a kindness, his guardian archangel.
My friend did a great kindness, not because of the $10 gift, but because the man was treated with gentleness, caring and respect, and not given charity.
