Becoming a kind human being is probably the greatest miracle we can perform. Many people have the misconception that spiritual life or religious life is somewhere up there in the sky—an ethereal or mystical reality—and that our everyday life is too mundane and not so nice. Often people think that to be a spiritual person, we must ignore or neglect our everyday life, and go into another, special realm. Actually, I think being a spiritual person means becoming a real human being. Thich Nhat Hanh, a well-known Vietnamese monk, said, 'It is not so important whether you walk on water or walk in space. The true miracle is to walk on earth.'

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In other words, becoming a kind human being is probably the greatest miracle we can perform. One time I gave a talk in a Hong Kong school to a group of children. One child asked, 'Can you bend spoons with your mind?' Another asked, 'Has God ever talked to you?' They were very disappointed when I said, 'No. Multisim 12 Serial Number Generator here. ' I went on to explain that for me a real true miracle is becoming a kind human being.

If you have psychic powers but lack a kind heart, the powers are of no use. In fact, they could even be disadvantageous: people may get very upset if they find all their spoons have been bent! Upon waking up How do we cultivate a kind heart? It is not enough to tell ourselves that we should be nice, because telling ourselves what we should or should not be, feel, or do doesn’t make us become that way. Filling ourselves with 'shoulds' often just makes us feel guilty because we never are what we think we should be. We need to know how to actually transform our mind.