Wednesday, June 11, 2014

A Small Kindness on the Street

"The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear and jealousy."
― Sharon Salzberg

A woman I know was looking for a parking space in a busy shopping district.  After circling the block a couple of times, she saw a car leaving.  As she was pulling into the parking space, another space right behind the first one opened up.  She noticed that one space had a 30-minute parking limit while the other had a much longer limit.  She wondered whether she should park in the one with the longer time limit and then realized that she did not need more than 30 minutes, so she left that space available for someone else who might need more time.

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