Not only did Barb return my boss to me yesterday, she also kindly sent along a beautiful and inspirational tome entitled: Believe: The words and inspiration of Desmond Tutu. It'll be blog fodder for a long time to come.
It's a pocket-sized reader, packed with quotes, sound bites and extracts from some of his speeches.
This morning I opened to this:
I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.
I find this really interesting for a couple of reasons. One is that the idea of karma has come, somewhat erroneously, to mean only that no bad deed will go unpunished.
It's payback for something we've done wrong or, said with more satisfaction, payback for something someone else has done wrong!
But Tutu points out the other side of karma.
That goodness, even when no one is looking, also has its rewards. It doesn't just go into a huge void, only to be forgotten.
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