Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of service, his commitment to justice, and his belief that every one of us has the power to make a difference, because as he reminded us, “everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”
Kindness is peak human performance and high status.
Kindness requires metabolic abundance: the capacity to override primal impulses, regulate emotions, and extend empathy.
Meanness is dirty energy: high cortisol, inflammation and an exhausted executive function.
Excessive beauty caused Sita to be abducted,
excessive arrogance caused Ravan’s death
and excessive charitable disposition caused the king Bali to be duped.
Excess of everything is always harmful.
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