A little kindness

“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”

― Dalai Lama XIV

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It is easy these days

Not to be kind

The air is filled with free floating anger

Which falls like blizzard flakes

Obscuring the humanity of those around us

Giving them a vagueness

Making them a caricature

Something somehow

Not fully human

There is fear too

Adding to the wintry mix in our souls

Covering all with ice

So we cannot find our balance

We an insecure, staggering through each day

And thus our focus

Turns to ourselves

Our survival

Our welfare

And those vague forms become

Evil

Dangerous

Lazy

And we do not care

We do not care that they are there

But God is kind

And warms our hearts, if we allow

And we can be kind too

And there is a warmth that can come

In this deep winter

And we can

If we want