―Charles Dickens
One of the Kindness Muses wrote to me this
week about my post on curiosity. She shared
that it made her think of a phrase that she heard from a Jesuit priest in
Washington, D.C. more than 20 years ago:
"People are not problems; people are mysteries."
"This lifts me out of whatever negative
thoughts I am having about a person and makes me look at the person and the
situation in a whole new way, with wonder and (perhaps) delight," my friend said. "It's looking with a sense of wonder and
adventure and possibility and openness, instead of negativity and closed-ness."
If we are open to the mystery of others,
we can let go of having to understand them or fix them. Instead, we can simply open our hearts and
show them kindness.
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