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I do feel that way often. I also feel I have (inadvertently) discovered a “work around” to this concept of just giving really doesn’t work because there is really no one to receive.
Here is what I have found:
I am never happier than when I’m helping someone. Particularly, when I’m helping in some way in their healing process.
Since, I’m never happier than when I’m doing so this, the “giving” on my part is in reality (whatever that means) actually receiving! My “giving” as an act of receiving is so fulfilling to me that it is almost a selfish act!
At any rate, it works of me and I hope it will help others.I do feel that way often. I also feel I have (inadvertently) discovered a “work around” to this concept of just giving really doesn’t work because there is really no one to receive.
Here is what I have found:
I am never happier than when I’m helping someone. Particularly, when I’m helping in some way in their healing process.
Since, I’m never happier than when I’m doing so this, the “giving” on my part is in reality (whatever that means) actually receiving! My “giving” as an act of receiving is so fulfilling to me that it is almost a selfish act!
At any rate, it works of me and I hope it will help others.Many years ago I read a fictional story by John Irving “A Prayer for Owen Meany”. Although it is fiction, it profoundly effected me and helped me to realize: “Who by worrying can add a single hour to your life?”
New Testament-sorry!By finding my true purpose and living it to the fullest. For me, it always comes back to being of service and living in gratitude, regardless of the external circumstances of my life.
To understand that my desires have been given to me by my creator and therefore to accept with gratitude with an intention to bestow. Or, as I have tried to do in the past, use the gifts given to me to be of service.
