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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
Give without expectation and receive with reckless abandon.
there are things in our souls which we know not how much they mean to us. Or rather, if we live without them, it is because, either through fear of failing or suffering, we daily postpone the moment of coming under their thrall.
bliss. Practicing
When you are giving, your mind grows wings of joy to fly.
The root of suffering is attachment
A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both.
I give myself to my parts as to a lover.
As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.
Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain
Given in love. Defiled by remorse.
Giving is the secret of abundance.
The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ...
The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age ...
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern.
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind.
To burning my father to the ground.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
What nourishes me, destroys me
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.
When I give, I give myselfGive-- Walt Whitman
Giving is fraught with danger - as is taking.
When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.
Giving is sharing.
Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.
It is a harder and a nobler task to preserve detachment in a crowd than in a cell; the little daily sacrifices of family life are often a greater trial than self-imposed mortifications.
There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the life. Because it is so natural it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is; but its outworkings are tragic.
Separation ... though effectual with people of certain humors, is apt to idealize the removed object with others; notably those whose affection, placid and regular as it may be, flows deep and long.
Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance.
We can only be our best by giving, and so we always need to be in the process of giving or preparing to give.
Dedication:
To anyone who has ever loved unconditionally. To all the people who have loved someone that did not deserve it. And finally, to every person who has followed their heart down the path less traveled.
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else ...
Abandon perfection
Welcome reflection
Nurture connection
Offer protection
The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its purpose.
The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.
invested with the dignity of possession.
When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.
At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.
Learning
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.
So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent;
Release what no longer serves you to create a space for that which does. And yes, sometimes this even means people.
Out of what I had received in my development, I was also able to give. The confidence I gained from personal growth gave me credibility and made me believe I could start developing others. And in that, I found life's greatest joy and reward.
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
Instead of seeking fulfilment in an object, the subject must acknowledge that it can flourish only through another of its kind. It is when two free, equal individuals engage in an act of mutual recognition that desire can transcend itself into something rather more edifying.
I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me.
Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.
That which we give makes us richer, that which is hoarded is lost
Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.
This book is written in
a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.
Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Giving is a quality of God Himself
Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.
In the process of letting go, we create abundance.
Dedication is loyalty to a cause, even when hope has long expired for a successful outcome. It is an unstoppable determination to win regardless of the odds.
Our dedication- devotion- to craft should enlighten as it humbles us.
We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.
Express your aliveness by giving - of yourself, of your resources, of your heart.
Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
Ritual of Personal Reflection.
What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
[Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.
Sometimes you must destroy first
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
[What one day gives, another takes away from us.]
Dedication For anyone who has ever taken a chance on uncertainty
strengthening habitual patterns of suffering. We begin to see this more and more clearly, and we begin to realize that we can do something different.
Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.
Giving opens the door to abundance.
Giving is a way of having what you need.Giving-- John Piper
Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.
Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.
Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy.
Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.
Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
Do not get attached to that which is given, be attached to the Giver.
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is ... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
Honour, cherish and nourish yourself.
This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.
One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.
Give, expecting nothing there of.
Create a need for closure.
It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.
Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).
The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,
What do you do with everything that is cut away? she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life ...
The secret to living is giving.
Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.
Dedicating time when I really can't afford to be
I'll provide protection if you open up the door for me
To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.