It makes me feel good inside when, for example, I get up from my seat on the bus without saying something, and the person sits down. If I verbally offer my seat to them, they often won’t take it. But there is this beautiful secret satisfaction from doing it silently and watching it take place with no confusion or consternation.

I also like to write little notes to strangers every now and then – unobtrusive little thoughts scrawled on a piece of scrap paper. I’ll see somebody who catches my attention and quickly scrawl “I really dig your style” and hand it to them, then walk away a certain distance so that it’s understood that the compliment comes with no riders attached. It definitely feels awesome to do.

I will be coming back for more. This stuff correlates well with what I write about.

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been meaning to write a post along these lines for aaaages.

so true that helping others allows you to “step out of our own ego-driven tendencies”. more than anything, it allows you to see and connect with the humanity in others – which in turn allows you to differentiate between your own ego and your undiluted pure perfect bliss life essence syrup of wahoo

one unleashed smile can not only change the course of another’s life, but allow you to realise the triviality of taking life too seriously and reconnect to your own humanity and infinity ala godness ala bodhisattva sitting in a cave on the coast of India.

Number 1 and ten were my favourite.

more than anything; what i find really helps, semantics aside, is to remember that emotions are contagious. good ‘ol “whatever you feel, they feel”. So irrespective of what you do, just being open and released and in the flow of life around other people is an act of loving kindness because they feel that and it imparts and ignites that pure essence within them.

The biggest act of kindness i’ve ever experienced or witnessed was when i was in India a while back. Did the whole adventure thing and that was really cool, punctuated by magic and girls and magic and beaches and magic. but more than that, i spent some time at the ashram of a woman, or rather saint, called Amma. There’s this ashram on the coast of India in the middle of fvckn nowhere jungle with this massive temple and 15thousand people, thousands new every day, all there to be in the presence of this living saint. and all she does is hug people. she’s hugged over 20 million people. best hug evar. and the whole point of the ashram is that everyone there has to help out and do at least an hour of selfless service – helping out – every day. called karmic yoga. amazing energy.

awwwwsome site all round mate. smoldouring undiluted awwwsomeness.

gave it a stumble too.

keep well and in touch.
alex – unleash reality

Eduard