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This morning, I read a beautiful and practical insight about a power for good at my fingertips. The effects of kindness are disproportionately far-reaching. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced. And really encouraged.
At times the ugliness of how people treat each other can be overwhelming. It doesn’t help that the failings and weaknesses we directly experience are compounded by other misdeeds constantly paraded before us in full color under the guise of ‘news.’
So let us pause and reflect on kindness and the real difference it makes. Frederick Faber, a priest in Oxford in the nineteenth century, asserts in his treatise on kindness that there is a ‘sweet fallacy’ associated with kindness. “The very world, unkindly as it is, looks at kindness through a glass which multiplies as well as magnifies it.” His point seems to be that in kindness people find even more goodness than is there. We are moved by kindness in a way disproportionate to what was put into the act.
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At times the ugliness of how people treat each other can be overwhelming. It doesn’t help that the failings and weaknesses we directly experience are compounded by other misdeeds constantly paraded before us in full color under the guise of ‘news.’
So let us pause and reflect on kindness and the real difference it makes. Frederick Faber, a priest in Oxford in the nineteenth century, asserts in his treatise on kindness that there is a ‘sweet fallacy’ associated with kindness. “The very world, unkindly as it is, looks at kindness through a glass which multiplies as well as magnifies it.” His point seems to be that in kindness people find even more goodness than is there. We are moved by kindness in a way disproportionate to what was put into the act.
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A Surprising Fallacy about Kindness - LifeCraft
This morning, I read a beautiful and practical insight about a power for good at my fingertips. The effects of kindness are disproportionately far-reaching. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced. And really encouraged. At times the ugliness of how people treat each other can be...
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