Pay it Forward
Aloha everyone,
Several years ago I watched the movie Pay It Forward and really enjoyed it. The other day I was thanking someone for an act of kindness they had done and they said, “That’s okay I was just paying it forward.” I did some goggling this morning about pay it forward and was really happy about the results.
I infuse my teaching of the Toltec tradition with the idea of living from a place of dominion and people always ask me how do I do that in a world based on domination. I now have a great answer – pay it forward. Believe me paying it forward will change your life and it really feels good!
Here is a short quote from the book by Catherine Ryan Hyde:
“You see, I do something real good for three people. And then when they ask how they can pay it back, I say they have to Pay It Forward. To three more people. Each. So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven.” He turned on the calculator, punched in a few numbers. “Then it sort of spreads out, see. To eighty-one. Then two hundred forty-three. Then seven hundred twenty-nine. Then two thousand, one hundred eighty-seven. See how big it gets?”
Here is a neat video about a woman paying it forward by being a foreclosure angel.
What three small things could you do to pay it forward today?
With love and aloha,
Susan
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It is really so wonderful how people can give meaning to their lives by paying it forward. If all people can learn just to pay it forward then I think poverty can totally be eradicated in our society.
I totally agree. Pay it forward could create a whole different kind of a world. Ad we can create it one act at a time.
With love and aloha,
Susan