You have something important to contribute to your world today. Every day, God sends you one person for whom you hold a gift in your hand. You will not know what it is until that person greets you, but you will then know it immediately. The only questions remaining will be: Will you…
Category: generosity
Spirituality from Daily Word “Give” (Espiritualidad de La Palabra Diaria “Dar”)
Give I give generously with an open heart. There is a constant flow of giving and receiving at work in our universe. So whenever I make the decision to give, I am also getting something in return. Even the air I breathe illustrates the law of circulation at work. Plants release the oxygen we must…
“Giving” by Kahlil Gibran
Giving You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.” The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else…
POEMS: Is it possible? by Anthony de Mello
Is it possible? Is it possible for the rose to say, “I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?” Or is it possible for the lamp to say, “I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will…
SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Count your blessings”(from an older post)
And as I go along life’s way,
I’m reaping better than I sowed. I’m drinking from my saucer, ‘Cause my cup has overflowed.
“Don’t Just”…by Roy T. Bennett (from an older post)
Don’t just criticize, encourage. Don’t just think, ponder.Don’t just take, give. Don’t just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
Don’t just hear, listen.
SHORT PERSIAN POEMS: “The sun never says” (from an older post) by Hafez
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
POEMS: “Time” by Helen Steiner Rice (From an older post)
Time is not measured by the years that you live
but by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give
Spirituality from Daily Word: “Helping Others” (Espiritualidad de La Palabra Diaria: “Ayudar a Otros”)
Helping Others I give of my hands and my heart to help those in need. When I see someone going through a difficult time, my first thought is to extend a helping hand. No matter what the need may be, I know that I have something to share with them. I start by centering…
A quote from Neale Donald Walsch about “lucky charms”
You can live a charmed life, and that there is a formula by which you can make this work. Here is the formula: You can live a charmed life by causing others to live a charmed life. That is, be the source of ‘charm’ — of charming moments and experiences — in the life of another….
A quote from Neale Donald Walsch: “Choose Love”
“Choose Love” “In life, we have a choice between a thought of love or a thought of fear. “Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals. “Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us…
ZEN STORIES: “Mokusen’s hand”(about generosity, giving & receiving)
MOKUSEN’S HAND Mokusen Hiki was living in a temple in the province of Tamba. One of his adherents complained of the stinginess of his wife. Mokusen visited the adherent’s wife and showed her his clenched fist before her face. “What do you mean by that?” asked the surprised woman. “Suppose my fist were always like…
