Learning from one another

 

 

One of the many books I have returned to over the past year is the dialogue between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, The Book of Joy. They spent a week together discussing how we find joy in the face of suffering. I highly recommend the book, it is full of warmth and hope.  I thought that it would be good to reflect on the Dalai Lama’s words at this time:     

If you wish to experience peace,

Provide peace for another.

If you wish to know that you are safe,

Cause another to know that they are safe.

If you wish to understand seemingly incomprehensible things,

Help another to better understand.

If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger,

Seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

Those others are waiting for you now.

They are looking for guidance, for help,

For courage, for strength, for understanding,

And for assurance at this hour.

Most of all they are looking for love.

My religion is very simple.

My religion is kindness.

                           The Dalai Lama