Will you engage this moment
with kindness or with cruelty,
with love or with fear,
with generosity or scarcity,
with a joyous heart or an embittered one?
This is your choice
and no one can make it for you.
If you choose kindness, love, generosity, and joy,
then you will discover in that choice
the Kingdom of God,
heaven,
nirvana,
this-worldly salvation.
It is your choice
that determines
just where you will reside.
Rabbi Rami Shapiro, The Sacred Art of Lovingkindness: Preparing to Practice
