It Flows By Itself

From the Gill Tarot, the Ten of Cups; from The Circle, Destiny:

          Studies show that one-third of the people who suffer abuse as a child will become abusers themselves, and their likelihood of mental illness and addiction is much greater. Yet I when look at those ten cups, each giving and receiving water, I wonder what statistics would say about kindness. What if everyone made it a point to do something thoughtful and caring for someone every day, especially to someone who looked like they could use a bit of gentle goodwill? The Circle's Destiny card is not so much about knowing what fate has in store, but in simply letting life evolve. A woman made the comment to me the other night that "You don't need to push the river, it flows by itself." Kindness can be just as fluid. I don't have to plan for it, I just need to be willing to go where it takes me.

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta [loving-kindness].

~ Sharon Salzberg