Billionaires Give Money. We Also Have a Gift.
ByIt is heart warming that those who have, feel the will to give.
In one of the latest stories, Azim Premji of India reputedly worth $18 billion, is giving $2 billion to educate elementary children in his country. Strangely only 64% of children in India are literate opposed to 94% in China. Vikas Bajaj of the NYTimes.
He follows other billionaires who of late have found it in their hearts to make contributions. They have been blessed and they feel the need to bring up the less fortunate.
Altruism has been encouraged by all spiritual and religious leaders for thousands of years. It is even said there is a larger consciousness that is part of the universe we tap through giving. Plato talked of a reality larger than what we sense and the Kabbala said the universe was formed by a Creator so that he could endow to vessels meant to Receive.
After we have received our fill we start to emulate the Creator with the will to Endow. Man however was created to receive and finds it difficult to endow with 100% altruism. As good as his intentions, there is usually still an agenda or a reward.
As I digress slightly, those who have experienced near death experiences speak of traveling to a place of consciousness where there was warm light and unconditional love. Some of these people who were revived were depressed that they came back. They often spend the rest of their lives trying to recreate that unconditional love.
And for my final point, I recently sent an email to my 25 year old daughter who moved to London. I told her I could not love anyone more and I do not get to talk to her or see her as much as I would like. If something happened to me, I would want her always to know.
There is one thing everyone on the planet can give; Unconditional Love. It feels like it’s a 100% gift, but it does have a big pay back. Love makes the giver and receiver’s brain produce dopamine, which is our happy chemical. Dopamine makes us feel happy, positive, optimistic, and confident. It also supports creativity and productivity. It gives us confidence to keep striving for our goals.
Love and happiness is our purpose.
I have read about people going through life’s trials say it only takes one person who believes in you to keep you going. I have had the same experience myself. My daughter has often needed that same hand of faith. Love is free and we can all give it.
Whereas there are a limited number of billionaires to prop up the world, there are 6.3 billion people who could produce wonders if they were all working at their peak performance level and feeling the encouragement of those that loved them.
If we were giving as well as receiving, we might have less greed and more caring. With half the planet starving and a need for more food and less war, we certainly have a big agenda. There will never be enough money to fix all the problems. We have to start by building each individual into self reliant, responsible, and capable beings.
We need to give everyone the spirit to contribute to the whole.
There might be a universal coalition of bootstrapping where everyone was pulling them selves up on everyone else. Paying it forward would be an every day phenomena.
We often wait too late to tell someone how we feel thinking they already know. But when we tell someone, even in writing, it releases it into the universal consciousness. We don’t all have billions, but we have something even more valuable to give.
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