This book challenges us with the promise that generosity and decency are the secret to a fuller, more satisfying life. Kindness is the key to our own happiness. Ferrucci has added a chapter on harmlessness to chapters on virtues such as mindfulness, empathy, gratitude, generosity, and joy — plus new techniques, meditations, and exercises.
Now comes the curious happenstance: I typed up this blog post and set it to post just after midnight. I read both fiction and nonfiction, sometimes alternating back and forth. After writing about nonfiction, I was in the mood to get back to my novel while things were still fresh on my mind, so I picked up the mystery I'd been reading on Donna's Kindle: The Consequences of Fear (Book 16 of the Maisie Dobbs mysteries). Almost immediately I came across this sentence: "If I look back, Maisie, I think kindness is the most important thing" (p. 56). Kindness, again! What are the odds?
Word of the Day
hap·pen·stance / noun (North American) = coincidence. Example: "It was just happenstance that I was at that point in reading the book."
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It's amazing how kindness is something we have to write about and convince people to be. What a sad commentary on society. It's so easy to be kind and feels so much better.
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