Obtain lots of incense (preferably a scent that you personally find to be pleasant) and take it to your nearest garbage dump, recycling center, &/or waste management plant. Light it all & place it around that site(s) … If one of these 3 sites isn’t available, take your incense and place it in public dumpsters […]
Regardless of your religious beliefs (or even complete lack thereof), head to a local church and confess to a priest today … In some cities, I’ve noticed that many churches are locked during the week. If this is the case for you today, most have “hot-lines” in the phone book where a priest can be […]
Enter a local restaurant that serves relatively healthy food, order the least expensive item on the menu for yourself (you don’t have to eat it if it’s not healthy or to your liking), and then treat the next three people in line to the tastiest cruelty-free (i.e. vegan) option on the entire menu. […]
Make a “Gift Basket” today, being both creative and Caring, including some note related to the priceless worth of unconditional Kindness … Now take your basket and give it to the pastor of a “rival Faith” — if you’re an atheist, take it to a Baptist reverend. If you’re Jewish, take it to an evangelical […]
Ask friends and co-workers to share with you the last time they did something nice for another person, place, or being. Then, take your favorite story heard and spread it around as “positive gossip” all day (“Guess what I heard …”)
Take a copy of your favorite book(s) to work/school today. Throughout the day, write uplifting comments in the margins of the same (using a quote book to help if necessary, though little stories related to your personal deeds of Kindness are more powerful). At the end of the day, take your tome(s) and donate it […]
Cleanse your “Sanctuary” (i.e. your home) today and be thorough when you do so. Avoid seeing this activity as a “chore” (or as a series of chores). Instead, choose to see it as an honor – as a privilege. Hint: start with the corners that you don’t normally get to when cleaning up your usual […]
Spend the day bowing to everyone you meet – both upon greeting them and when taking your leave. By bowing, you are reminding yourself to Honor others as brothers & sisters. We all have pains and joys. We have all done amazingly wonderful deeds and we have all either perpetrated or enabled great evils. Remember […]
Pause every hour today to focus for a few moments on either someplace “liminal” (the apparent boundary between two apparently separate entities or regions) … Gaze at the line of the horizon. Look for the line boundary that separates light from shadow. Hear the silence between others’ words &/or the space between the notes of […]
Go to a kindergarten or an elementary school (any grade 3rd or lower) and ask to volunteer for (or at least sit in on) a class. Ask the children questions about what is Important to them and – most importantly – Listen to their answers … If so inclined, ask the teacher to share stories […]
Eat no food all day today, from waking this morning to going to sleep at night … Hint: drink lots of green/herbal tea and water. Donate the quantitative equivalent of all the food you would have eaten to a local food bank. Bonus Activity: While fasting today, choose to buy breakfast, lunch, & dinner for […]
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