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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430830" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Giving chapter V</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then said a rich man, &quot;Speak to us of Giving.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he answered: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You give but little when you give of your possessions. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the overprudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what is fear of need but need itself? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there are those who have little and give it all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And is there aught you would withhold? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All you have shall some day be given; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You often say, &quot;I would give, but only to the deserving.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights is worthy of all else from you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what desert greater shall there be than that which lies in the courage and the confidence, nay the charity, of receiving? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in truth it is life that gives unto life - while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Khalil+Gibran">Khalil Gibran</a><div class=q>
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And he answered: 

You give but little when you give of your possessions. 

It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. 

For what are your possessions but things you keep and gua..."></div>
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