Stories of Kindness from Around the World

✨Getting Along✨

"The people who get under your skin the most can in fact be your greatest teachers."

"Seldom has the atmosphere in the world been more bitterly divisive than it is right now. It’s a time when the need to get along has never been more urgent—or more challenging. In the face of seemingly irreconcilable conflicts between people of different politics, nationalities, races, or social classes, it can be tempting just to give up and retreat into an isolated community of the like-minded. The problem is that even if you do that, nothing is solved. The conflicts magically arise even among people Just Like You."


"Getting along, it turns out, is related to listening to each other, and the kind of deep, nonjudgmental listening required to bridge the gaps between people is a lot like meditation practice. The skill of interpersonal interaction, once learned, is transferable. Learn to get on with the people in your intimate circle, and you can take that skill into the larger world of more frightening kinds of conflict. And you can have an effect."
(From Shambala Publications website)