On Giving and the Good
Posted by Hindu Wisdom
Keep on giving — your time, your energy, your talent, your resources.
Everything is a trust given to you to be used for the benefit of others.
— Eknath Easwaran, meditation teacher and interspirituality pioneer
Zen Wisdom
To truly practice Zen means not leaving lights burning where they are not needed, not allowing water to run unnecessarily from the faucet, and not loading up your plate and leaving food uneaten.
— Robert Aiken in 365 Zen edited by Jean Smith
Movie Lines
"I'm God's instrument. . . . God has a plan for all of us."
— Simon Birch in Simon Birch
Confucian Wisdom
If you meet a noble man, try to equal him. When you see an evil one, examine yourself thoroughly.
— Confucius in Awakening to the Sacred by Lama Surya Das
African-American Wisdom
Good is that which makes for peace; evil is that which makes for turbulence.
— Howard Thurman in Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh by Matthew Fox
Sufi Wisdom
Whatever brings people together for a good is good.
— Kabir Helminski in The Knowing Heart
Prayer
May a good vision catch me.
May a benevolent vision take hold of me,
and move me.
May a deep and full vision come over me,
and burst open around me.
May a luminous vision inform me,
enfold me.
— David Abram in Prayers for a Thousand Years edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon