I need your perspective on something.

A foundational Elan teaching is unconditional love of self and others. Two aspects of this are honoring each person’s right to think and do what they want and being one’s authentic self. However, this doesn’t mean forcing one’s ideas on someone else. Honoring someone else’s views means only sharing ideas if they are open to them.

I'd like to add a bit of a shifted perspective since the idea of Kindness has been so well described already.

From my perspective, maintaining the idea of "kindness" is understandable but also confusing. Instead, I like to look at it this way: each day, there are various opportunities I (Higher-self) have planned out. Events where I can decide which side of the duality I will express myself through, positive of negative. If these take the form of interactions with people, then those are also my opportunities to reflect kindness to them and to myself.

In practice I find that when interacting with people, if I am present and clear within myself, kindness and compassion are the natural state.

My perspective is that kindness is an expression of unconditional Love which flows through us. It has its own intelligence-in-action. Trust it... be kind to yourself and others with equal measure for there is just One ultimately. As Love leads us we will discover many things and acts of kindness arise automatically out of that Love. No need to overthink it for if it's contrived it is not kindness, but something else. Feel it, you know what it is. It may soften you in a good way.

Great question. From my personal experience, being kind, is validating their experience and journey, and listening to them, with compassion. Compassion and kindness are synonymous for me. Where is if I begin to sympathize with them, I dis-empower them, in their situation. So while I listen to what they say, I ask more than I suggest. I share my perspective when appropriate, but leave them knowing that they are a powerful being and can oveercome any challenge. Empowerment for me, is kindness. Because you cannot "fix" it for someone, as they will not feel their sense of self worth. Love to you.

Just seeing your post... and there are two of them? 🤷‍♀️

So, my perspective: The Great Masters have always taught that we are responsible for our own creations/actions/reactions/thoughts/words, etc. and that we will reap the consequences of these.

However, as far as others go, we are only responsible FOR small children in our care... and to all others we are responsible TO them to be our honest, authentic self. So this means not lying, even telling a 'white lie' as this fragments our consciousness.

So, as far as kindness goes, if you are authentically being kind to someone and not 'faking it', perfect. 👍

However if you are faking being kind to another person, particularly if it is to get something from them (their approval or something else) then you are misleading them and not being honest. You are not being responsible to them... or yourself.

Your honesty and authenticity is what serves you and those you interact with.

I hope that makes sense?

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