Benevolence

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Benevolence is silent good will. It is like the sun shining on hard ground, softening the earth, melting the ice, but with no design or intention to heal. It is the state of naturalness which is why because the ground feels no debt to the sun. In the same way to be on the recieving end of benevolence is to be recieving something for which there is no return. Not even pressure to respond which is why one does, so easily. Benevolence is a state of being, reliant on itself alone. It has nothing to do with feelings of mercy or preference. It offers nothing specific but everyone is drawn to it.It answers no questions, but it enables you to think. It reaches nothing, but because of it you can learn To be benevolent is to have forged a link so strong with an unbroken source of energy, that even the interruptions of life cannot block that constant re-fuelling. However dry-life is, the tine keeps burning always. And in the moments just before turning, when life has taken of a great inflow and so you stay quiet , acknowledging temporary emptiness-only as a prelude. If you hurt someone, the tide stops turning and you are grounded, and have to fight. To have become benevolent is the best help you can be to anyone because benevolence has no shape, any more than sunlight has but it can filter into the quiet corners of panic in a persons mind and lighten the burden. It is least intrusive virtue and yet it is welcomed everywhere.