If I tell you of all the charities
I do work for, aren't I really just
saying, "Look at what a giver I am"?
“I'm good aren't I?”
“Tell me.
Tell me again.”
“Here is my ego.
Stroke it, please…
yes...like that...
...right there.”
A Prayer Like Gravity
Mundus vult decipi
A Prayer Like Gravity 
Exactly. There are a few people I would like to send that to, but they would miss the point.
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Heard and felt. The folks that need to hear it most are also often the ones least ready to listen. Afraid that’s been me a time or two.
Thanks–
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So sad yet true.
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Ayup.
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ah yes those who give – but want to be known for giving. If you wish to give – give from your heart not for what your ego will receive in return. Nice Fuzzy Wuzzy 😉
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Yep. I was raised Catholic and while I have left a lot of it behind I still hold to that ideal of charity–doing the right thing simply because it is the right thing regardless of reward or attention.
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Agreed
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…and I’m actually a bit more Scraggly Waggly.
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🙂 ok let’s go with that
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I’d have to say it’s in the tone and purpose of the saying. Giving others the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they want you to know about the charity so you can support it, too…or maybe they’re not convinced that they’re really a good person, so they have to convince themselves. Circling back, though, I do think that tone is about 90% the meaning. maybe?
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Yes–tone and context are everything. This is the dilemma of being a giver and an observer of givers and well, a human animal. This can be a tricky business when “giving others the benefit of the doubt” can lead to being taken advantage of. It is extremely difficult if not impossible to remove self-interest (enlightened or not) from the equation. That Ghiglieri book gets pretty heavily into this topic. The choices that “thinking animals” (*my words*) make and why.
THanks as always–
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