Audrey Hepburn's Beauty Regimen: Loving Kindness

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others;
For beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness;
And for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

Cultivating an open heart allows genuine happiness to naturally emerge from within.  In our day to day life we tend to oscillate between hopes and fears, joys and sorrows and we wrestle with the reality that so many of life’s events are beyond our control.  Genuine happiness (or Eudaemonia in Aristotle’s philosophy, translated as “human flourishing”) is not simply a pleasurable feeling aroused by some external stimuli that derives from what we receive from the world.  That type of happiness, more accurately described as “pleasure”, is fleeting and disappears when the external catalyst disappears.  Genuine happiness arises from inner conditions and is an upwelling of kindness that we extend to the world.  It is a symptom of a balanced, healthy mind just as physical well-being is a sign of a healthy body.  

In opening our hearts to others, we begin to know as truth that others' hearts will open to us.  Do you ever wonder what the evening news would be like if everyone on the planet felt loved and capable of loving?  

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May all beings everywhere without exception know they are loved, lovable, and capable of loving.

(And a heart-felt thank you to Stacy Brunner for the beautiful photo of the heart that she knitted to cheer up a friend - many acts of kindness in one!)

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Checks can be given to facilitators at our weekly sits or mailed to:
Community Mindfulness Project
P.O. Box 1713
New Canaan, CT 06840.

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