These words from Kahlil Gibran will resonate forever.<\/p>\n
Then said a rich man, “Speak to us of Giving.”
\nAnd he answered:
\nYou give but little when you give of your possessions.
\nIt is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
\nFor what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?
\nAnd tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the overprudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city?
\nAnd what is fear of need but need itself?
\nIs not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable?
\nThere are those who give little of the much which they have – and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.
\nAnd there are those who have little and give it all.
\nThese are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.
\nThere are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
\nAnd there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.
\nAnd there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;
\nThey give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.
\nThough the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth.
\nIt is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding;
\nAnd to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving
\nAnd is there aught you would withhold?
\nAll you have shall some day be given;
\nTherefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors’.
\nYou often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”
\nThe trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
\nThey give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
\nSurely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights is worthy of all else from you.
\nAnd he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.
\nAnd what desert greater shall there be than that which lies in the courage and the confidence, nay the charity, of receiving?
\nAnd who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?
\nSee first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
\nFor in truth it is life that gives unto life – while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
\nAnd you receivers – and you are all receivers – assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives.
\nRather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings;
\nFor to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.<\/p>\n
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