You create the world in which you live through your actions. By being generous — not only with material things but also with your time, your energy, your forgiveness, your willingness to be fair and just with other people — you create a good world in which to live. If your habits tend more toward being stingy, they create a very confining world, because theres never enough. Theres always a lack of this, or a lack of that, or a fear that something is going to slip away or get taken away from you. So its a narrow, fearful world you create when youre not generous, as opposed to the confident and wide-open world you create through acts of generosity. ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu Generosity First
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:18:40 +0000