A batch of the best highlights from what Christian's read, .
If we pay attention whenever we perform an act of kindness, no matter how small-speaking to someone warmly, holding open a door for strangers, helping neighbors shovel out their cars after a snowstorm-we might experience a physical sensation such as warmth or a tiny glow. That concrete sensation is Mencius's sprout of goodness growing within, nurtured by our act of generosity and connection to another.
Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi
Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh
Everything painted so recently that it positively creaks with niceness, and even the odd rare police car sliding past starts to look like something out of a Chuck E. Cheese franchise…. And you come to suspect that the reason you see so few actual police is that people here all have, to quote William Burroughs, “the policeman inside.”
Distrust That Particular Flavor
William Gibson
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.