Joy of Caring and Sharing
“JOY OF CARING AND SHARING”
Sharing, taking, earning, losing, stealing, squandering, hoarding. These are all human impulses, and very natural otherwise we wouldn't be human without them. Yet on this list only one item — sharing — appears in the world's wisdom traditions. Why is giving or sharing set apart? After all, there's no mystery to why someone might want to earn, hoard, squander, or steal a million dollars. One way or another, most of our daily actions follow the principle of more is better, whereas giving and sharing means having less. Nobody likes to part with his things. Everyone in this world has an aim of being successful in other words having more of everything….. More money, more cars, gadgets, more houses and the list goes on …..
If you ask people like Mother Teresa “why they give” or “what make them serve the needy”, the readiest answers offer to the mystery. “God wants me to. I feel better about myself. Others need, and I have. I want to share. It's only right. A hazy halo encircles these good-hearted answers, and if we bring it into focus, then it seems true that “Giving takes you out of yourself. You expand beyond your limitations that are being always self-occupied. I want this, I want that, I have to achieve more, me this, me that… and somewhere along those lines you are slowly and slowly loosing yourself! You might think you are successful, but do you have the character?
Unfortunately a person’s character is what the actual prosperity dwells on. It is something we achieve at every step of life, with ups and downs of our life, and something we would be remembered for and that’s what sharing, giving and caring gives you.
You feel the joy of it once you feel it with a pure and clean heart, you will never again hesitate to give or share. We can feel the real joy of giving when we’re doing something for others knowing that we’re simply doing it for ourselves-we’re doing it for our own joy!!
The people who give more let it be time, money,
Sharing, taking, earning, losing, stealing, squandering, hoarding. These are all human impulses, and very natural otherwise we wouldn't be human without them. Yet on this list only one item — sharing — appears in the world's wisdom traditions. Why is giving or sharing set apart? After all, there's no mystery to why someone might want to earn, hoard, squander, or steal a million dollars. One way or another, most of our daily actions follow the principle of more is better, whereas giving and sharing means having less. Nobody likes to part with his things. Everyone in this world has an aim of being successful in other words having more of everything….. More money, more cars, gadgets, more houses and the list goes on …..
If you ask people like Mother Teresa “why they give” or “what make them serve the needy”, the readiest answers offer to the mystery. “God wants me to. I feel better about myself. Others need, and I have. I want to share. It's only right. A hazy halo encircles these good-hearted answers, and if we bring it into focus, then it seems true that “Giving takes you out of yourself. You expand beyond your limitations that are being always self-occupied. I want this, I want that, I have to achieve more, me this, me that… and somewhere along those lines you are slowly and slowly loosing yourself! You might think you are successful, but do you have the character?
Unfortunately a person’s character is what the actual prosperity dwells on. It is something we achieve at every step of life, with ups and downs of our life, and something we would be remembered for and that’s what sharing, giving and caring gives you.
You feel the joy of it once you feel it with a pure and clean heart, you will never again hesitate to give or share. We can feel the real joy of giving when we’re doing something for others knowing that we’re simply doing it for ourselves-we’re doing it for our own joy!!
The people who give more let it be time, money,