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:
- The air we breathe
- The opportunity to love
- Interdependence always works both ways
- Focusing on our inner interdependence
- Our intimate dependence on the natural environment
- Limitless aspirations
- The best way to love oneself
- Webs of interdependence
- The interdependence between us and the world
- Enthusiastically benefiting whomever we come in contact with
- Self-discipline
- Freedom
- The workings of interdependence
- Viewing others through the lens of interdependence
- Inner freedom is key
- Touching the core of our equality
- The imagination to see the other as free and happy
- A Vast and Complex Web of Causality
- Opening up to the view of interconnectedness
- Bringing about real change in the world