The Power of the Warm Smile

To achieve mastery, to figure it all out, to add awareness as you see a flock of geese fly between buildings somewhere downtown, at dusk, maybe the greatest thing we really can do in this life is to share a smile.

But there is an adding to and a subtracting from, this concept of — just smile.  Smiles can be divvied up, they can be short, forlorn, reactionary, up and down like stutter steps, or they can be warm and soothing like they should.

Find the quintessential smile, the contagious one that is genuine and use it with love and wonder, with caring and concern, with elongated emoting, and you will gather more smiles back, a troop of them, an influence from them. 

For to smile with your entire being, with élan, and grace, with a truth emitted from way down deep, is to touch another’s soul with more than a flash, caught off guard by a stranger when your eyes meet as you come around a corner.

No, the true effect, the slicing through the ordinary, to capture the love behind the scenes, to run wisdom and sincerity through caring, is to give away a part of yourself that is humming and whistling, that is engaging one’s entire spirit to come together for a moment, for a genuflection in time, a fraction, a sacred essence, that is where a single smile has enormous impact.

Try it out for fun, for an elevated smile adds to a lifestyle that requires no payment.  This kind of smile adds warmth to another.  Watch that very caring transform a moment, connect humanity to its very divine nature. 

A smile is nice, but a caring smile is profound, it touches you, connects you and another to something that is far beyond strangers and passersby running from task to task; it gathers them, even ever so briefly in time, in an instant, to share their humanity, and inspire another to go on their way, back into their prescribed journeys, their adventures at hand with renewed and elevated wonder and understanding that there is a vital connection, there is a communing going on.

Believe in these warm smiles for they can change a day, a world, a moment, adding a lasting memory of: “What an inspiring day.”  These tiny gifts leave a footprint of love and higher understanding that will imprint its very influence on the minds that smile together, and everyone walks away larger, expanded and with a reminder of life’s wisdom going on all the time.

Try it out.  Smile because you want to give away these small tokens, these golden gifts that are as outreaching as the entire universe, as inspiring as blue skies, and as wondrous as humans giving away pure and undulating light energy along the pathways to higher enlightenment.