• Give as the rose gives perfume, because it is its own nature, utterly

unconsciousness of giving.
• Ask, therefore, nothing in return; but the more you give, the
more will come to you.
• When you give life, you will have life.
• Do not criticize others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are
good; but show them by your lives that religion is no matter
of books and beliefs, but of spiritual realization.
• Only those who have seen it will understand this; but
such spirituality can be given to others, even though
they be unconscious of the gift.
• Only those who have attained to this power are amongst
the great teachers of mankind. They are the powers of
light.
• There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he
whose hand draws in receiving; and he is the highest man
whose hand goes out in giving. The hand was made to give
always. Give the last bit of bread you have, even if you are
starving. You will be perfect, you will become God.
• If you have, then give.
• Yet have the power to give: give, and there it ends. Learn
that the whole life is giving, that nature will force you to
give. So, give willingly.
• Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have
to give; it will come back to you----------------but do not think
of that now. It will come back multiplied----------------a
thousand fold. But the attention must not be on that. You
have the power to give and there it ends.
• In the world take always the position of the giver. Give
everything and look for no return. Give love, give
help, give service, give any little thing you can, but
keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be
imposed. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as
God gives to us.
• Give to the weak, for there all the gift is needed.
• In the presence of my Master I found out that man
could be perfect, even in this body. Those lips never
cursed anyone, those eyes never criticized anyone.
Those eyes were beyond the possibility of seeing evil,
that mind had lost the power of thinking evil. He saw
nothing but good. That tremendous purity, that
tremendous renunciation is the one secret of
spirituality. "Neither through wealth, nor through
progeny, but through renunciation alone, is immortality
to be reached," say the Vedas. "Sell all that thou hast
and give to the poor, and follow Me," says the Christ.
So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and
have carried it out in their lives. How can great
spirituality come without that renunciation?
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought
wherever it be, and you will always find that as this
idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses
creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will
decrease in the same ratio.
• We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what
we expect. We get misery in return for our love; not
from the fact that we love, but from the fact that we
want love in return. There is no misery where there is
no want.
• The first of everything should go to the poor; we have
only a right to what remains.
• Giving alone is the one work in this Kali Yuga; of all
the gifts, giving spiritual life is the highest gifts
possible.
• Give as the rose gives perfume, because it is its own nature, utterly
unconscious of giving.
• The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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