Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good t… - Emmanuel Swedenborg

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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

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Emanuel Swedenborg (29 January 1688 – 29 March 1772) was a Swedish philosopher, mystic, and scientist.

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for heaven is within us, and people who have heaven within them come into heaven. The heaven within us is our acknowledgment of the Divine and our being led by the Divine.

By this faith instilled from childhood and afterward confirmed by preachings, it has come to pass that no one shuns evils from religion, but only from civil and moral law; thus not because they are sins but because they are damaging.

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