'Charity' Articles
True charity is accepting presence. This includes everyone. Charity stems from the heart, and when distressed your supposedly higher functions will fly out the window thanks to the mercy of natures guidance.
Charity must start with the self, which is why it’s possible to feel at home anywhere. I myself practice charity, because it’s the only thing I can actually have. I respond to people and situations in my environment as my observations would suggest is most appropriate, nothing more.
If this were hell, what would you give? If this were heaven, what would you keep to yourself? What is the difference between the two?
“Charity begins at home, but should not end there” Proverb
“All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.” Evelyn Underhill (English theologian and mystic 1875-1941)
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.” Homer (Greek poet presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, 9th-8th century BC)
Accepting Presence
What are your thoughts on charity? Well-intended assistance. It can be hard to know what is welcome and what is a burden. Well, it’s nice to give a boost to someone who requests one. It’s a rather complicated topic. It’s harder to receive charity than it is to give it. I would disagree. People give charity very poorly, and the desperate have a certain clarity in their lives, or can. First perhaps my definition of charity. Accepting presence, which may or may not involve accepting presents. They say that charity starts at home, so shall we start there? How do… Seek More
Charity Starts At Home
Have you, my friends, ever rejected something you were offered? Yes, but only if I truly did not want what was offered. I’ve rejected many small things. Why did you ultimately choose to reject these things or favours? Because possessing this thing was wrong to me, inappropriate. Some things I’ve rejected because I felt the other person was doing it to excuse their behaviour in some way. Some things I’ve accepted that I didn’t want, because I wanted them to feel their behaviour was excused. What would these people have behaved like if they were fully in your presence? Fully… Seek More
Grace
I have, and may in the future, behave in ways that people would consider cruel and without guilt. Why is that? One act of charity is to live and let die. Charity is not only about giving presence, accepting presence, but also allowing that presence to behave according to its own nature, allowing presence to fail. There are children among the young and awakened. They radiate total joy and acceptance. What will happen as more like them appear among us? Children can show profound charity. They usually are the best examples of it. Man will make their own angels or… Seek More
Charity From The Heart
I don’t recall the exact system of belief, but there is a school of mysticism that says we don’t have a single soul, but instead we have three. An angel, a demon, and a human, and all three are our own souls. Do they match up with the three brains? They do indeed. The demon is the reptilian brain and knows nothing of charity. The angel is the cerebral cortex or neo-mammalian brain and knows nothing of mercy, and the human is the middle brain or heart brain. That same brain that allows us to come to love our pets… Seek More
Notion Of Charity
What are your thoughts on charity? Fear prevents it. The notion of lack. That it’s possible to lose what we have. This is true. How did one come to see themselves as having gained something? The much acclaimed standard of living. What is that based on? Various measures of material goods? Material goods exist. Are people material goods? No. Why not? Honestly, I can’t say since they’re often treated as such. Why do we have the notion of charity? … Hmm, sometimes silence is an act of charity. Allowing one their peace and space from an event, but we define silence… Seek More
Why Do You Practice Charity?
Why do you practice charity? Compassion. I somehow image their pain. Charity, perhaps in its most fundamental form, is willingness. Whatever life presents to you, whomever you come into contact with and how they engage you, you respond with a willingness to allow that thing to be the truth. I feel people should be able to have what I have, food and clothing, basic things. Everyone should be able to have the same things. What if they want more? They can want all they like. They will take more if they want it badly enough. Yes, and will they keep… Seek More
Charity Or Tyranny
Could charity and peace be the same thing? Is charity giving someone what they want? You can’t say what someone else needs, so maybe yes. It’s letting them have what they want. Oh yes, charity is letting them have what they want, which requires letting yourself have what you want which is peace in those affairs. That is wisdom. Charity exists as a concept only, because people have a sense of proper order. The greater good. If you have to bend your knee to everyone, is that charity or tyranny? I’ve heard this before when people talk about niceness. Being… Seek More
