It doesn’t take supreme skill or even supreme compassion to birth beauty and goodness into the world; it just takes action, and most of those beautiful actions will be well within the bounds of normalcy.

The owner of this restaurant observed that someone was going through their trash for food, regularly. Then he or she took the transformative step of seeing them as a whole person, not merely a thing playing the role of “homeless.” They posted the sign you see here, inviting the hungry person in for a simple meal.

This is how humans help humans, to all of our benefit: the giver and the recipient of course, but more importantly the observers, who see that such actions are, and ought to be, part of life for all intelligent and moral beings.

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So, before you return to the mundane, please remember a time when you did something like this, or situations where you’d like to. Spend time with the thought and see where it leads you.