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• Generosity.
• It is no accident that every religion places such great emphasis on the virtue of generosity. Not only does generosity enable society to work more smoothly, but it also has a profound spiritual effect on both the giver and the receiver. In practicing generosity with intelligence and openness of heart, we draw closer to the truth of oneness and love, while serving life and the Divine. Acts of generosity manifest that deeper reality wherein we are not separate. ...
• Nevertheless, we practice generosity now, not waiting for that ultimate stage of enlightenment where egoism vanishes permanently. Generosity requires us to see beyond ourselves. It diminishes our self-centered egoism, even when our ego tries to co-opt and take credit for our generosity, attempting to inflate itself thereby. By definition, true generosity involves giving to others beyond what is required of us, and that outstrips any self-centered motives we might harbor in the process. ... But generosity moves against ego, helps expose its illusory nature, decreases its hold on us, and lowers the barriers separating us from others. The more one practices generosity, the more selfless it becomes. ...
• Indeed, prayer for the benefit of others is a very important form of generosity. ... Generosity also lives in the simple giving of our time and attention to others, for example by listening from a place of stillness, compassion, and appreciation.
• While giving outward, material help is the time-honored form of generosity, other forms also call to us. ...
• We can look inwardly before, during, and after acts of generosity, to see ourselves more clearly, to step toward greater freedom. What feelings, thoughts, and impulses accompany our consideration and performance of acts of generosity? In this seeing, we measure our generosity against the aim of simple, compassionate giving without expectation of reward or recognition, the aim of doing right by others because that's what we do.

• Generosity .
• Be sure to read Jonathan Schwarz's post on "generosity" in foreign relations. Here is his Iron Law of Generosity: "Whenever one group of people talks about being "generous" to another, it means they're BEATING THE CRAP OUT OF THEM. ...

• Poverty and Generosity.
• He wanted to describe for them a right and fruitful response to God's generosity.
• Their response shows something "otherworldly," something supernatural, something quite beyond the natural world of selfish humanity, something that cannot be explained by the values of this world: "Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity" (v. ...
• This is astonishing! Combine poverty and joy, and what do you get? Rich generosity! This was not your ordinary "percentage-based giving. ...
• They had a lot to give, but they weren't giving it! Paul wanted them to excel in generosity, because that is an expression of godly love, and love is what is most important.
• So Paul presents the attitude of Jesus Christ as theological proof of the generosity he wanted to see in the Corinthian church: "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich" (v. ...
• Right now, God's faithful people have trials, even poverty — and yet, because Jesus lives in us, we can be rich in generosity. ...
• Joy and generosity.
• "For if the willingness is there" — if the attitude of generosity is present — "the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have" (v. ... The Macedonians had already given beyond their ability; Paul was only asking the Corinthians to give within their ability — but the main thing is that he wanted generosity to be voluntary.
• Just as Paul was now using the Macedonian example to stir the Corinthians to generosity, he had earlier used the Corinthian example to stir the Macedonians, apparently with huge success. ...
• He is speaking here of grace — not the grace of forgiveness (we receive that wonderful grace through faith in Christ, not through works of generosity) — Paul is speaking here about the many other kinds of grace God can give.
• Let's go back to 2 Corinthians 9 and notice what Paul tells the Corinthians about their financial and material generosity: "Your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. ...
• Paul is reminding the Corinthians that their generosity is not just a humanitarian effort — it has theological results. ...
• "Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else" (v. ... Second, generosity not only causes thanks but also praise to God. ...

• The Virtue of Generosity    DONALD DEMARCO .
• Generosity inspires gratitude, and gratitude inspires generosity. God is generous to us and our generosity, as St. ...
• In gratitude we are human; in generosity we are divine: “You received without pay, give without pay” (Mt. ...
• Thus, the virtue that touched Brahms inspired replication of itself in the generosity that Brahms himself demonstrated. ... Generosity is the virtue that can go on mirroring itself until the end of time.
• Giving ourselves in this way epitomizes the virtue of generosity. The perfect example of generosity is God the Creator. By means of His generosity, He generated man in His image. For Christians, God’s gift of Himself through Christ represents the ultimate form of generosity, and serves as a model for all human generosity.
• Because God creates — or generates — man in His image out of His own generosity, a dynamic impulse toward generosity is implanted in the depth of man’s being. ... Personality and generosity, therefore, are virtually synonymous. ... The great Thomistic philosopher, Jacques Maritain, underscored this unification of personality with generosity when he wrote: “Do not heroes and saints impress us as men who have reached the heights of personality as well as generosity?”.
• What are the limits of generosity? Since virtue is rooted in love, this question is tantamount to asking, “What are the limits of love?”.
• It is greed that impoverishes us, not generosity. True generosity, indeed, enriches us a hundredfold. ... Nothing, therefore, is more costly than greed; nothing is more rewarding than generosity. ...

• generosity.
• Generosity is the willingness to share or give. ...

• Generosity's Perfection.
• Generosity opens our heart, frees us from attachment and is the basis of all good qualities. ...
• The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity, dana, we open up these qualities within ourselves. ... Generosity is the beginning of the path. When the Buddha taught, he always began with generosity.
• In Asia, he said, the teachings proceed from generosity to morality, and then to meditation or insight. But here we appeared to begin with meditation, then say something about morality, and only after some time, as a kind of appendix, teach about generosity. ...
• However, the springboard for genuine meditative states is the cultivation of generosity and morality. ...
• Generosity is the very first parami, or quality of an awakened mind. ... Pure unhindered delight flows freely when we practice generosity. ...
• ” In the practice of generosity, we learn to see through our attachments. ...
• Therefore, the practice of generosity is about creating space. ...
• Excerpted from "Generosity's Perfection" by Sharon Salzberg, Shambhala Sun, March 2005.

• Generosity.

• Generosity - Giving.
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• GENEROSITY.
• It ranks each state by having and giving, and computes what is called a 'generosity index' that lists states by the ratio of income to dispersal to charitable organizations. ...
• Blue state folks: You're going to have to skip well past half of 'Jesusland' before you see one of your own on the generosity scale. ...

• Thanks for the Generosity .
• Thanks for the Generosity .

• INDEPENDENT SECTOR Survey Measures the Everyday Generosity of Americans.
• Based on a national survey of more than 4,000 adults, this series of reports explores the why, how, and who behind the extraordinary everyday generosity—both in time and money—of American households. ...
• Deducting Generosity: The Effect of Charitable Tax Incentives on Giving—a look at how tax policy motivates giving at different income levels. ...
• A Nation of Givers: Regional Patterns in Giving and Volunteering—an exploration of the generosity of different regions of the United States. ...

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