10.02.07

Grains of Sand.

Posted in randomness at 9:36 am by Pammy

This was forwarded to me by a coworker today. It is from a newsletter called The Daily Kabbalah Tune-up, from The Kabbalah Centre International.

“The Zohar says that our actions are like grains of sand on a scale. Notice it doesn’t say rocks or coins or some larger object. In his choice of words, Rav Shimon Bar Yochai (author of the Zohar) is telling us that we never know which little action will tip the scales in our favor. Every act of sharing and every moment of restriction ends up on the scale –which side it goes to is up to us.

When students ask me what they can do in response to the horrors of life — the starving children in Asia, the AIDS epidemic in Africa, the war in Iraq — I tell them what the kabbalists have been teaching for millennia – change yourself. Giving your friend those five minutes you don’t have as you are rushing off to an important event, treating your competitors with human dignity, loving someone when you dislike them – that’s how you change the world.

Today, effect change in remote areas of the world by effecting change in your home, in your school, in your workplace.”

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