Kindness As A Religion

Isn't that a wonderful concept?  Kindness as a religion...


We could incorporate our religion into every home, every school, every place of business.  The Doctrine?   To be kind not only to all those who you come across in your daily life--but to be kind to YOURSELF, as well.  


Upon waking each morning, the first thought from your mind would be, "What kind thing can I do today to help others?  To help myself?  To spread this beautiful religion?"  Then the next step would be to go about your day speaking kind, caring words, doing kind, caring deeds, sharing the love and joy that lives in your heart so that others might experience that very joy and love that you are experiencing.  Can you imagine?  Can you just envision walking along and someone greeting you with a genuine smile and truly, truly caring when they ask you, "How are you doing today?" and not just caring, but taking the time to LISTEN to your answer, to actually HEAR your reply.  Wow--what a beautiful start to not only your day, but to that lucky person you happened to greet.


Can you imagine being in a place of business and perhaps noticing someone in need of assistance--maybe they're elderly and can't quite manage to reach something off a shelf, and here you are eager to help with no other thought than to be helpful--no expectation of anything more than a genuine smile of joy that you receive in return for your help.


Can you just imagine what an awesome, friendly world this would be if we all KNEW that wherever we go, whatever we are doing, there is someone within reach, just steps away willing to lend a hand, to reach out to us whenever we're in need?  And then imagine the joy we would feel as we pass along the good and kind deed by helping and doing for others and expecting nothing more than for that person we helped to pass it on to yet another in need of a kind and caring act, or word or gesture...


My prayer, my hope,  my wish, my goal is to live my life with KINDNESS as my RELIGION.  I hope I will be able to convert all of mankind to this beautiful religion of Kindness.  The only rule would be to pass it on and to continue the goodness so that all might feel the joy and the love that mankind is so capable of sharing and living whenever we all decide that this world has had quite enough of hatred, bad deeds, ill manners, crime and destruction.  I hope, hope, hope that KINDNESS can become the RELIGION of ALL MANKIND.


It really can happen, you know...All it takes is one kind act, then another and another and another until each human being is touched with the beauty and joy and loving kindness that they so deserve...


IT CAN HAPPEN!!!!!

5 Simple Rules (for happiness)

How hard is that? 

1.  Free your heart from hatred...okay...so here we are, human kind who are all in this world TOGETHER.  Why on earth would we hold hate in our hearts for anyone?  What good does it do?  What purpose can it possibly serve?  NONE.  Hatred serves nothing for anyone.  It's a complete WASTE.

2.  Free your mind from worries.  Worry.  Again--what good does it do?  How does worry ever, ever make your life any better????  Does worry solve anything?  NO.  All it does is create angst and axiety and fear.  Fuck worry.  It has no place in our lives.  Throw it to the wind and be DONE with it.  Worry no more.  Got it?

3.  Live Simply.  How hard is that?  You wake up, you deal with your day--you do your best and put out whatever effort you MUST to be a living, breathing part of society.  You smile, you work, you play and you live.  How hard is that?

4.  Give More.  That's right--you heard me.  Give MORE.  You know you can.  Give more time to those you love.  Give more love to those you love.  Give more smiles to those you meet, give more hugs to those who need them most.  Just fucking GIVE MORE.  Again, how hard is that?

5.  Expect Less.  Okay--this one is bullshit.  Don't expect LESS.  EXPECT MORE.  Expect to be rewarded for all the smiles, all the love, all the hugs.  How can you not expect something in return for being so awesomely wonderful to your fellow man?  Life is a gift.  Get out there and live it and EXPECT GREAT AND WONDERFUL THINGS TO COME YOUR WAY.



And Jesus Wept

It is not often that I turn to him and wonder and ask the many questions that dwell within my mind, my heart, my very soul.  You see, there is so very much I want to know.  Why are people all across the world so cruel and mean?  Why does humanity do such inhumane things to their fellow man?  Why do we humans waste so much and ruin the land?  Why cannot we all just share and get along and love as you, dear Jesus, tried so hard to teach us to do?  I do know that you were here at one time, that you tried so hard to share what you knew, to get others to listen, to follow you and even now, so many are trying hard to understand, to live and do what they believe so surely is "what Jesus would do"--yet too there are scores and scores more that have no clue, have no inkling of how to live as if they were trying to emulate you.  I just don't understand, you see.  I will forever seek out the answers until enlightenment encompasses me--I cannot abandon my quest to understand, for within me is a soul who must somehow grasp the meaning, the purpose and fulfillment of knowing.  So onward I go, forever seeking, forever asking, forever hoping to learn, to find my way and then to be able to share what I have learned, to give to others the vast knowledge that will enlighten and help us each to understand.  I will continue this quest and hope some how, some way that I can dry your tears, dear Jesus, and make you proud of me, my fellow human kind, you see.  We are all just children, searching, yearning hoping to learn--yet so many of us here are cruel and hard and have no concern for others -- we are so very wrapped up within our own world of self and cannot see or understand that we ALL are ONE.  Each of us connects to the other--each of us plays a part in all life that unfolds.  This I know.  My heart bleeds with your tears, dear Jesus, for I know that this world is so far from what you had hoped it to be, but then too, I know that where there is life, there is always hope.  So as long as I live, I will continue to search, to find a way to bring to me an understanding of all that is--and whenever I am full of this enlightenment, this knowledge of love and life, I will share and I will rejoice and find others who are just as joyful in the understanding and who will at long last be able to find a way to take your heartfelt tears for mankind and turn them into smiles of joy from your heart.  One day we will all be ONE in knowledge, in Love and in LIFE. 

This I know.

And you, dear Jesus, will weep no more.



Missing You

Have I mentioned lately
how very much I miss you?
Well, just in case I haven't--
please know that I do.
I miss your smile,
your touch,
your loving looks
and oh my god,
how I miss your voice--
remember when you used to sing
(to me?)
your songs always made me feel
so alive--so free--
your eyes would gaze
straight into mine
and oh how you'd make me feel
so completely divine
so loved, so cherished,
so real, so true--
damn, damn, damn--
I truly do
miss you.