Ideals

I read something recently that Albert Einstein said and I love it. “The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
What I particularly like about that quote is that it is not about building an institution that can help (though there is a time and place for that me thinks) but about being an institution to help.
It is about the inspiration that is found in everyday things.  Things that everyday people aspire to and can achieve.  It is not about things that only the few can access as they may require oodles of money, influence or power.  But it is about things available to all and which can be exercised by all.  And things which require no interpretation to understand what is on display.
It is a favourite topic of mine but I do think kindness, beauty and truth are manifestations of love.  Even marred beauty remains to me beauty as so often beauty is less about what is and about what could be.  I think everyone or all are made for beauty.  Not all exhibit what they can be, but my role remains always to encourage expressions of beauty.
To me it is the same with kindness.  There seems to me to be much hate and hurt on display at the moment.  Less on display but no less there, are acts of kindness.  To me the most rewarding acts of kindness are for those who cannot return the act of kindness.  To my mind it is one thing to show an act of kindness to another who almost feels almost obliged to reciprocate, and another thing to show an act of kindness to someone who can only receive at that moment.
There was a mum we gave some donuts to as a treat for her kids.  She just cried.  She loved her kids and wanted to show an act of kindness but was not in a position to do so food wise.  That is until we did what we did.
A small thing but a big thing.