Generosity has such power because it is characterized by the inner quality of letting go or relinquishing. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, to give generously--these capacities spring from the same source within us. When we practice generosity, we open to all of these liberating qualities simultaneously. They carry us to a profound knowing of freedom, and they also are the loving expression of that same state of freedom.

Sharon Salzberg in Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg

 

To Practice This Thought:
Give away, without regrets, something you treasure.

 

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