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June 4, 2026

""Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.""

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and novelist of Palestinian-American descent, often called a "wandering poet" for her deep engagement with the places and people she encounters in her writing. Born in St. Louis and raised in both Jerusalem and San Antonio, she has published more than thirty books of poetry, picture books, and anthologies. She served as Young People's Poet Laureate for the Poetry Foundation from 2019 to 2021. Her work is known for its precision, tenderness, and refusal to look away from difficulty — qualities that make her one of the most widely taught poets in American schools and one of the most beloved.

CREATIVITY AND PURPOSE COMPASSION GROWTH

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Context

This line comes from Nye's poem "Kindness," written after a traumatic experience while traveling in Colombia, when everything she and her husband were carrying was stolen. Left with nothing, stranded in a foreign country, she found that something shifted. The poem she wrote from that moment is not about loss or recovery. It is about what becomes possible on the other side of having nothing left to protect. Nye's argument is structural: kindness is not a personality trait or a choice made in comfort. It is a capacity earned through grief, built from the inside of hard experience. You cannot give what you have not yourself received in some form — and sorrow, in her framing, is one of the most honest forms of receiving. The poem ends with the line "Kindness is the only way to get here." She means it literally.

Today's Mantra

What I have carried through grief, I now carry as depth — and it makes me more useful to others.

Reflection Question

Think of the most significant loss or sorrow you have moved through. What did it teach you about other people's pain that you could not have understood before? In what way did that knowledge make you more capable of genuine kindness — the kind that costs something rather than the kind that costs nothing?

Application Tip

Find a copy of Nye's poem "Kindness" and read it slowly today — the whole thing, not just this line. It is short. Then identify one person in your life who is currently in a sorrow you have already survived. Reach out to them this week not with advice or optimism but with the specific knowledge of what that particular kind of hard actually feels like from the inside. Nye's poem is clear about what makes kindness real: it is not warm feeling. It is the recognition that you have been in the same place.

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