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Lovingkindness poems

Below are the best poems we could find on Lovingkindness.

Lovingkindness as a Buddhist concept (metta in Pali, maitri in Sanskrit) is not an act of doing something nice: it is a state of being focused on compassion toward self and others that is cultivated and maintained by practice (often meditation) and is thought to be essential to freeing ourselves from suffering. It is the antidote to selfishness, anger, and fear. Lovingkindness is also a term used in Judaism (chesed) to refer to kindness between people, devotion toward God, and the love or mercy of God toward humanity.

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Rest

Sometimes we glimpse that everything's okay just as it is. Everything's fine.

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Choices

When we stop plunging ahead in our activities long enough to just look, we become gentle.

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Rock Me, Mercy

Komunyakaa wrote this poem the day after the Sandy Hook tragedy as a way of offering healing and compassion.

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For the Sake of Strangers

The kindness of others can save us.

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Often I Imagine the Earth

We are all connected, we are all helping each "fly home."

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