Something similar happens on the other side of the equation: Giving kindness does us as much good as receiving it. . . . The true benefit of kindness is being kind. Perhaps more than any other factor, kindness gives meaning and value to our life, raises us above our troubles and our battles, and makes us feel good about ourselves.
Piero FerrucciEliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
Piero FerrucciThe transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.
Piero FerrucciWe are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.
Piero FerrucciThe word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails stooping and returning to earthly origins, but also because, as we are rooted in this earth of everyday life, we find in it all the vitality and fertility unnoticed by people who merely tramp on across the surface, drawn by distant landscapes.
Piero Ferrucci