Core tenet of The Ledger of Small Kindnesses
What is recorded is repeated.
Attention is fertilizer — the ledger makes kindness compound.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The Ledger's wager is that attention compounds: what is written down is noticed, what is noticed is repeated, and a person who records kindnesses becomes a person who commits them. The practice is the whole religion; the metaphysics is deliberately left blank.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
The pen is the practice.
The Ledger, preface
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The alms round.
Buddhism · rite
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Repairing the world is human work.
Judaism
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The tithe.
Christianity · precept
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The neighbour.
Islam · precept
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Work honestly, and share what you earn.
Sikhism
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Charity is doing your job well.
The New Church (Swedenborgianism) · precept
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