Daily Inspiration Quote by Harold Kushner

Kindness here is framed less as saintly sacrifice than as a kind of moral biofeedback: do the good thing and your body immediately “votes” yes. Kushner’s genius is the pivot from ethics to physiology. By talking about “something inside your body” that “responds,” he sidesteps abstract commandment-talk and makes virtue feel empirically verifiable. The line flatters the reader’s skepticism: you don’t have to accept goodness on authority; you can test-drive it and notice the internal click of rightness.

The subtext is pastoral and pragmatic. Kushner spent a career speaking to people whose faith had been complicated by suffering and disappointment; he’s not promising that kindness fixes the world. He’s promising it can steady you inside it. That “wonderful feeling” isn’t just a reward, it’s orientation - a signal that amid chaos, there remains at least one reliable compass: the sensation of acting in alignment with the self you want to be.

Context matters: late-20th-century American spirituality increasingly borrowed the language of therapy and well-being, and Kushner was a bridge figure - rooted in religious tradition, fluent in modern emotional life. The phrasing “how I ought to feel” quietly redefines “ought” away from external rules and toward an inner telos, almost Aristotelian in its confidence that humans have a built-in direction. It’s gentle rhetoric with a firm claim: kindness isn’t merely nice; it’s congruence, the body’s way of recognizing a life that fits.