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
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