Generosity need not be applied only in the material realm. We can also cultivate a spirit of generosity in whatever problem we are working on. We do this by making an offering of ourselves – offering a hand, offering a word, offering heart and mind – as a positive condition in any situation we find ourselves in. This attitude extends our open heart and mind into action and keeps us ready to act to benefit others.
17th Karmapa
from the book Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society
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Further quotes from the book Interconnected:
- Our intimate dependence on the natural environment
- The opportunity to love
- Time to act
- Focusing on our inner interdependence
- The interdependence between us and the world
- The best way to love oneself
- Limitless aspirations
- Freedom
- Enthusiastically benefiting whomever we come in contact with
- Webs of interdependence
- Inner freedom is key
- The workings of interdependence
- Self-discipline
- A Vast and Complex Web of Causality
- Touching the core of our equality
- Individualism or interdependence
- Bringing about real change in the world
- Opening up to the view of interconnectedness
- Viewing others through the lens of interdependence
- The power of our senses