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So, where does this kindness to one another, to each other, arise from? The kindness we long for, as an expression of our belonging-together, arises from where this belonging-together arises from: Spirit. Recall, as I have written recently, communion does not arise from the oneness we are, but from the One, oneness itself. All is pretext, in one revelation of nature Grace comes near. The Otherness becoming Nearness, Hereness, this is Spirit, is Grace, is Love, is God, is Goddess, is unspeakable, known only in unknowing, known directly in Silence. God expresses God in our being-together, our sharing-together. God takes on action in our relating together with each other. This is what I have referred to as Love loving. God becomes, as Christ near and Holy Spirit inspiring, in our expressions of civility in community, a civility that arises most purely in spontaneous graciousness, not in fulfillment of a moral injunction or sense of responsibility. Kindness is a facet of the one jewel of Love. For the Lover, the law is not, for Love is a law to Itself. This kindness, as this meeting with the homeless man, is neither lawful nor unlawful, but freely arising as an expression of the freedom of our natural selves. Only in this Love that is and is happening is freedom known as the intimacy of our own being with itself in Grace.
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There is a scripture in the Christian Scripture, Letter to the Galatians 5.22, that speaks of this emergence of kindness, and all other qualities of relational civility, showing Spirit expresses as a particular quality of relating ~ what we have called communion.
Now, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience (or, perseverance), kindness, goodness (or, generosity), loyalty, gentleness, self-control.
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The being who lives in and from Spirit, beyond a sense of responsibility toward others, religious, civil, or otherwise, does not live with a sense of moral duty to act in any particular way. He or she is the sign of Grace simply in being and being as expression of himself or herself. Grace expresses spontaneously the nature of Grace, which is graceful, which is selflessness expressed through the self. Gracefulness, being selfless, takes upon itself traits of self through ourselves as the conduits of impersonal Love. Pure kindness is pure for not being premeditated, not arising from person, but from Love itself. This kindness, in purity, is God goding, is godness. In such Grace, there is no room for such a thought as, "I ought to treat with kindness..." or, "Courtesy is my duty." Spirit knows no injunction to act in any particular way, and Grace cannot deny gracefulness in any action, anymore than a rock can fly like a bird or swim like a fish. All that Spirit expresses is spiritual, so most natural, lawful, for lawless.
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