Before creating humans, God is surrounded by angels, pure ideas: Kindness, Truth, Justice and Peace.
Read How to practice courtesy and kindness for more ideas.
How about the old-fashioned idea of kindness, or "being kind" as the opposite, which at its root suggests that idea of kinship and belonging that you have identified as the mark of healthy connection?
Three quiet unknowns walked out of a dazzle of sunlight with extraordinary news, the origin of the blessed idea of kindness to strangers – you might be entertaining angels unawares.
During the wide-ranging conversation, which was often more philosophical than practical, all three leaders emphasized the idea that kindness is a basic human value.
Here's a good reason to pay it forward: It turns out that there's scientific proof for the idea that "kindness is contagious".
It's given me community, the concept of kindness and charity, the idea of taking 24 hours and being with people and not screens, the commandment to pray to something larger than us.
I have learned from him that reconciliation, not perpetual anger, can cure our souls – Kenneth, 27, Texas, US "She has ideas about kindness and friendship and goodness that are generally irreproachable, and she acts on them.
New Testament ideas of humility and kindness are ignored, as are the Christian ideas of original sin and redemption.
"Anne of Green Gables" is fuelled by ideas about pride, kindness, trust, insecurity, academic seriousness, and a kind of proto-feminism, and it expresses them through a series of mostly comic plots, which Sullivan re-created perfectly.
