{"id":1598,"date":"2023-03-13T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/2000-years-of-kindness-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:54:19","slug":"2000-years-of-kindness-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/2000-years-of-kindness-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"2,000 Years of Kindness \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nothing broadens the soul more than the touch of kindness, given or received, and nothing shrivels it more than a flinch of unkindness, given or received \u2014 something we have all been occasionally lashed with, and something of which we are all occasionally culpable, no matter how ethical our lives and how well-intentioned our conduct. Everyone loves the idea of kindness \u2014 loves thinking of themselves as a kind person \u2014 but somehow, the practice of it, the dailiness of it, has receded into the background in a culture rife with selfing<\/a> and cynicism<\/a>, a culture in which we have come to mistake the emotional porousness of kindness for a puncture in the armor of our hard individualism. And yet kindness remains our best antidote to the fundamental loneliness of being human<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gathered here are two millennia of meditations on kindness \u2014 its challenges, its nuances, and its rippling rewards \u2014 from a posy of vast minds and vast spirits who have risen above the common tide of their times to give us the embers of timelessness.<\/p>\n

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