Most people don't understand true generosity…read more
To understand true generosity, you must train your greedy human self to understand and accept that nothing really belongs to you anyway.
Then when you see a need, you give and giving is pure and natural and normal and you never look back - with no desire whatsoever that you will or should expect anything in return.
And when you get to that place of unconstrained giving, you will live a better kind of life where you are second - second to the god man and second to other imperfect human beings.
And that perspective, that philosophy, must become the natural rhythm of your human being life, being spontaneously generous in the moment, and not waiting for some imaginary perfect moment, but instead meeting needs when you see them.
I like the way theologian John Wesley put it;
"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can."
But most people don't understand true generosity, anyway.
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Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
