Quote of The Week: Spirituality is in One’s Ability to Make Others Smile
From an email I got from my sister:
Spirituality is a direct measure of how much joy we experience in our lives…It is not how much we pray, meditate, prostrate ourselves; it is in direct connection to how much joy we give to others that surround us, and how much joy we experience ourselves."
- Guru Baghavan
I have no idea who this Guru is, but I liked the sentiment, expounded on by my sister Ileana in her email:
I really believe that. The people that I consider the most spiritual also are the ones who had the greatest capacity to laugh, to joke, to love others, to make someone’s day better even if they were perfect strangers.
This sentiment is at the core of our work with KIND ambassadors and the KINDED campaign.
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