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Power to Give
Reciprocation has played a part in a lot of metaphysical and spiritual world views. As above so below, yin and yang, yet we in our modern culture have largely abandoned this idea thinking we act independently of the world, or that we can operate in closed systems. Even our science says there really aren’t any…
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A Giver in Balance
As you give you are cause, but if you refuse to be an effect, to never receive, then your giving will be out of balance and you won’t create. To reject a gift is to reject the giver, and the giver is the source. Even if you don’t want to be spiritual about it, it’s…
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Bribery
There is giving, and then there is bribery. The difference between genuine giving and bribery is in giving there are no conditions. You give because you are adding to the world. It’s bribery if you are giving to induce a condition, and there is no reason to accept bribery. Love. Expect nothing in return? Yes,…
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Spiritual Attainment
Reciprocation is the balance of giving and receiving. Ecosystems function on a web of giving and receiving, growth and predation, generation and consumption, but we think we are different don’t we? We think that we can function as independent systems. Be cause and never effect. What does this create for us? Misery and duality. Exactly,…
Category: Reciprocation
Sanctimonious spirituality and the idea that injustice is justified by it. It seems like a rationale for nihilism when I hear it. I know that state very well. Why are they justifying their lives? I don’t really know. It sort of scares me.
Life is about the willingness and desire to give, and the openness to receive because by receiving you engage life. You embrace it and acknowledge that you are one with it. If we all lived like this, what would there be left to want?
“That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments” Samuel Johnson (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.” Aeschylus (Ancient Greek Dramatist and Playwright known as the founder of Greek tragedy, 525 BC-456 BC)
“We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.” William R. Alger (American Theologian, 1822-1905)