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Kent Nerburn, Growing Hope
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. And give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than how it is shared, and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
Give in any way you can
Sam Keen, Learning to Fly
I think we need a new word — "comjoyment" — as a companion to "compassion" to remind us that our greatest gift to the world may be in sharing what gives us the greatest joy.
Our greatest gift is sharing what gives us joy
Soshitsu Sen XV , The World in a Bowl of Tea
In my own hands I hold a bowl of tea; I see all of nature represented in its green color. Closing my eyes I find green mountains and pure water within my own heart. Silently, sitting alone, drinking tea, I feel these become part of me. Sharing this bowl of tea with others, they, too, become one with it and nature.
See all of nature represented in tea
Tomas Transtroemer, Finding What You Didn't Lose
The lesson of official life goes rumbling on. We send inspired notes to one another.
The lesson of official life goes rumbling on
Haitian Saying , The Soul of Money
If you get a piece of cake and eat the whole thing, you will feel empty. If you get a piece of cake and share half of it, you will feel both full and fulfilled.
Sharing half the cake
Donald Altman, Meal by Meal
Even if you live alone, you can show hospitality by giving away leftover food — to a hungry person or the neighborhood critters and pets. Leftover and even spoiled food make for good compost so you can create more food, more abundance.
Even if you live alone
Michael Berg, The Way
All by itself, true sharing can transform the world. This refers not only to the sharing of physical objects, but especially to the sharing of wisdom and the Creator's Light.
True sharing can transform the world
Go Interest-Free
In The Problem of Wealth: A Christian Response to a Culture of Affluence, theology professor Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty writes that Islamic financial institutions "do not consider money to be a commodity or capital. Rather, money is understood to be 'potential capital' that can only be put into productive use through the labor and services of a human being."
Islam prohibits charging interest (riba) on money loaned. Not only do Islamic banks not charge interest on loans, they only invest in real assets, and they do not invest in drugs, alcohol, gambling, pornography, weapons or military equipment, or pork.
The Islamic finance system is an equity system in which the creditor and borrower are more like shareholders, sharing both in the benefits and in the losses in accordance with their level of participation in the service or labor performed. Take a moment to consider the merits of this perspective. What do you think of the idea that money isn’t capital until it has been put to productive use by someone? Do you think a lender should be a person who sees that money is used productively? What are the benefits of such a system? Are there any ways you can modify your purchasing to go interest-free?
An invitation to consider the merits and applicability of an interest-free equity finance system.
A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home
"These days, love and charity are — or can be — earthly, mundane phenomena: what we do and how we act in our everyday lives toward one another and ourselves, whether we are religious or not. Dogs lead by example. Watching Pransky jump in bed with a nursing home resident or put her head in someone's lap, I could see that the love she was sharing was both simple and profound. It was kindness, compassion, and affection in a single gesture; it was blind; it asked for nothing in return. When the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote about loving-kindness, it was with a fair amount of cynicism. People were often good to one another because it suited them, he suggested. Love was a kind of ego boost. For loving-kindness to be real, for it to have moral value, he observed, it must be practiced with consideration 'of the other's distress alone.' In this was an echo of Buddhism's Four Immeasurables, in which the first, love, was simply wanting others to be happy. Could this be why people trusted and accepted dog love, even from a dog they did not know? Could this be why, when those researchers asked people to show where the people and dogs in their life stood in relation to themselves, the dogs were closer? Dog love was morally uncompromised. It was uncomplicated. It was trustworthy. Dog love — not the love for dogs in general or any one dog specifically, but the love dogs show us — matched Aristotle's idea of 'philia,' the place where friendship merged with love or, as he put it, 'wanting for someone what one thinks good, for his sake and not for one's own, and being inclined, so far as one can, to do such things for him.' On the other hand, if there was a dog biscuit in the offing, all the better."
Sue Halpern on how the sharing of love by dogs is keen and true.
Serve Your Community
The usual pitch, when it comes to volunteering, is that it's appropriate to give something back. We're called upon to serve as a fundamental responsibility. What this pitch obscures is that service is actually a privilege. Whether in a soup kitchen, battered-women's shelter, or Little League, service opens our hearts, connects us to the world, and fills the present moment with meaning. While service often provides great assistance to those in need, its foremost beneficiary is almost always the one who serves.
The Practice:
Find a few hours a week for service. Choose a location or organization that you feel strongly about. Look for a position that takes advantage of your strengths or one that involves a refreshing change of pace from your usual work. Since the opportunity to make a contribution is a privilege, treat everyone you meet with appreciation.
The privilege of volunteering.