Kindness is Water

"The important thing, that which we cannot live without, is kindness.  Kindness is water, religion is like tea.  It's a great luxury. it increases the savor of life, and is wonderful if we have it.  But kindness is the starting block of every life.  We should ground ourselves in the people around us before immersing ourselves in text and notions of the absolute."

-Pico Iyer, paraphrasing teachings from the Dalai Lama

How to create

Despite the tired old claim that Necessity is the Mother of Invention,
it's usually Observation and Imagination that deserve the credit.
                                                   
   -- The Te of Piglet, pg. 160