Tuesday, September 14, 2010

As If There is Nothing to Lose: How giving comes from gratitude.

Sustenance 104 by Neeta Madahar



http://www.tricycle.com/special-section/if-there-nothing-lose

Once I was young and poor—and generous. I shared an old house with several people and slept on the porch and owned nothing more valuable than my bicycle. I volunteered many hours every week at community organizations. One day, when I had only five dollars, I treated a friend to dinner, and afterward we laughed about my now total poverty. It was easy to give away what I had; I never doubted that the world would somehow provide for me in turn.

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