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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Category: Charity
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)