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I Had a Good Teacher
“When we are present, here and now, we can be overflowing with feelings of generosity toward everyone. This is the same mind as being in love, but without the excitement. It is a boundless feeling, a sense of giving ourselves to the world, and allowing the world to possess us — not the other way around.
“This giving up is not about losing or surrendering. By giving up pursuing, being in love with the life we have, we gain everything. This is called selflessness and it’s the best gift we can give ourselves. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t feel love for another person when we feel close to them, only that we should be careful not to let personal love put a limit on us. When our sense of personal love is not possessive, it is universal love.”
How to love without attachment.
Travel Light
“In order to live by your core principles and values, you have to know what they are. So here’s a quick thought experiment that will help you identify them: imagine that you are witnessing your own memorial service. Your family and friends are going up to the podium to offer reflections about your life. What would you want them to say about you? Would you want them to remark about how generous you were? How you found the humor in everyday situations? How you would often go out of your way to help those in need? How you always honored your word?”
How will people speak of you?
Me, Myself and Irene
The outrageous Bobby and Peter Farrelly have followed up their box-office smash There's Something About Mary with another over-the-top romantic comedy. It deals with a quiet and polite fellow who suddenly finds that the stifled, angry, and aggressive wild man within him has come to the surface. Or as the best-selling author Robert Fulghum has put it, "There's quite a crowd in here with us. A child and its parents. A wise old person. A mechanic, demons, a fool, . . . a Romeo, censor, police officer, . . . I can fully relate to the occasional stories in the tabloid about multiple personalities." Yes, so can we all, and that is what makes this zany comedy so primal.
Charlie Bailygates (Jim Carrey) is a Rhode Island state trooper who has married his high school sweetheart. Much to his shock, she has an affair with a black midget limo driver (Tony Cox), who has a high IQ just like she does. Charlie watches them walk away leaving him with African American triplet sons to raise on his own. Of course, he is the laughing stock of the town. And everyone takes advantage of his kindness and generosity.
After years of accepting all this dissing, Charlie produces an alter ego — Hank. He is a vulgar fellow who picks fights, enjoys humiliating others, and has an insatiable libido. His boss, Colonel Partington (Robert Forster), has Charlie examined, and he is diagnosed with "advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage." He is ordered to take drugs to keep "Hank" under control.
However, the war within him really breaks out when Charlie is assigned to escort Irene (Renee Zellweger) to upstate New York where federal investigators want to learn more about her connection to her ex-boss, who was involved in fraud and embezzlement. When Charlie leaves behind his medication one day, Hank comes out with a vengeance. Ironically, the frightened Irene, who slowly draws closer to the mild-mannered Charlie, relies upon the combative Hank when her ex-boss and his associates close in. The message is clear: when the going gets tough, you need the tough guy. Too bad we have so few role models in the movies for the heroism of gentle and peace-loving individuals.
Me, Myself and Irene is a hoot from start to finish. And the funniest performances are put in by Anthony Anderson, Mongo Brownlee, and Jerod Mixon as Charlie's street-talking, genius, tech-savvy, Ivy League-bound sons who show their loyalty to him at the critical moment.
A zany comedy about a quiet and polite Rhode Island state trooper who suddenly finds that the stifled angry and aggressive wild man within him has come to the surface.
A Prayer for Holiday Shoppers
The December holidays mean that millions of people all over the world will head out to malls, department stores, and shops to purchase gifts. In the United States, the shopping frenzy started on "Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving, followed by "Small Business Saturday" for those choosing to buy only from independent businesses, and "Cyber Monday" for shopping online.
The December holidays mean that millions of people all over the world will head out to malls, department stores, and shops to purchase gifts. In the United States, the shopping frenzy started on "Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving, followed by "Small Business Saturday" for those choosing to buy only from independent businesses, and "Cyber Monday" for shopping online.
The Power of Forgiveness
Forgiveness offers healing for ourselves and others. It nurtures deep love and generosity of spirit. Today consciously invite forgiveness into your life in one of these three ways:
Requesting forgiveness from those we have hurt, which requires us to do reparation work and make a commitment to not repeat the mistake.
Forgiving those who have hurt us, and demonstrating to them our willingness to let go of past hurts, resentments, disappointment and betrayal. And if I cannot forgive at this time, can I forgive myself for that.
Forgiving ourselves in participating in self-deception or abandoning ourselves to win acceptance and approval.
Three ways to consciously invite forgiveness into your life.
Stephen Batchelor, Mindfulness in the Marketplace
Generosity is central to Buddhist practice and manifests in many ways: giving of material support to those in need; giving of spiritual advice to those in despair; giving of love to those who are abandoned; or giving of protection to those who are threatened.
Generosity is central to Buddhist practice
Georges Bernanos, Joy
To find joy in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
To find joy in another's joy
Robert Frager, The Wisdom of Islam
Fasting causes all Muslims to feel hunger; ideally, this awakens compassion for the poor, which we can act on by giving generously to charity for those less fortunate than ourselves. The sages praise generosity. Ibn Arabi advised: "Spend from what God has given you. Do not fear poverty. God will give you what He has promised, whether you or everyone asks for it or does not ask for it. No one who has been generous has ever perished in destitution."
No generous person has ever perished in destitution
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Heart of Islam
All of life, according to Islam, is a jihad, because it is a striving to live according to the Will of God . . .
To wake up in the morning with the Name of God on one's lips, to perform the prayers, to live righteously and justly throughout the day, to be kind and generous to people and even animals and plants one encounters during the day, to do one's job well, and to take care of one's family and of one's own health and well-being all require jihad on this elemental level.
Living according to the Will of God
Karen Armstrong, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
Eventually Muhammad's religion of al-Llah was known as islam, the act of existential surrender that each convert was expected to make to God: a muslim is "one who surrenders" his or her whole being to the Creator. At first, however, the believers called their religion tazaqqa. This is an obscure word, which is not easy to translate. By cultivating tazaqqa, Muhammad's converts were to cloak themselves in the virtues of compassion and generosity; they were to use their intelligence to cultivate a caring and responsible spirit, which made them want to give graciously of what they had to all God's creatures. By pondering the mysteries of creation intelligently Muslims would learn to behave kindly and this generous attitude would mean that they acquired a spiritual refinement.
The existential act of surrender made to God