A generous heart, kind speech, and life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. The spirit of giving and sharing with everyone is generosity without expecting anything in return.
Generosity is for the Destruction of Greed and Attachment. – Gautama Buddha
The holy scriptures teach us to act as saviors of mankind and dharma. Generosity helps to get rid of greediness. It is clear that this is the highest manner of giving. The giver should only give through compassion and loving kindness.
- Giving beautifies the mind (by eliminating craving and greed). Giving strengthens the mind. Giving calms the mind and makes a person feel happy.
- Give liberally. Giving should be accompanied by earnestness(with belief).
- By giving clean and better things among what you have, you get real satisfaction.
- By giving some part of earning for charity, expecting no returns.
- By giving frequently, that is suitable at proper time with care.
- Appreciate the charm of spontaneous generosity that is priceless.
If you help people get better and advance, karma will help you advance in someway or other. If the man is full of humanism, charitable and believes in human.. brotherhood, everything will turn out to be good.
Hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
The only God that to worship is the human soul, in the human body. God is present in every living thing. There is no other God besides that who serves everyone, serves God indeed. Service to "people" is service to God. He who sees "Siva" in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Siva. - Swami Vivekananda
Service to mankind is the highest form of worship. It is prayer in action. It is love of God that finds its most exalted expression in the service of fellow beings. It is also a love that knows no boundary.
Focus your mind on the good of humanity. "Humility makes you more refined and a sense of universal compassion and responsibility for mankind." Through humility, true humanity shines . Humanity is the only way to grow humble. Without humility, you would never know the value of the kindness. Kindness is the fruit of wisdom. Be kind to yourselves and to one another.
You cannot help anyone; you can only serve. Do it only as worship. Feel extremely blessed and thank God and be grateful for the bonding of human love. Thinking that all living beings are forms of God, let us help other beings with God given hands and legs, considering it as an offering to God. – Swami Vivekananda
Give due respect to others, aged persons and never try to humiliate them. Everyone have enough pain and suffering. But rendering service to others and elderly people is what makes you feel alive.
The man of good conduct who serves old people daily will get four blessings - longevity, strength, beauty and happiness.
If you’re young, give your little time, concern for lonely and elderly people in old age homes, hospitals and shelters. They look only for tender love and some companionship. If you can make them feel happy, make them smile for sometime, it’s as close to healthy as they ever feel.
We must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. – Mahatma Gandhi
Some people are engaged in violent activities because they are not aware, that it is only going to give them more suffering, more pain and more ignorance. Ask yourself honestly, if you’ve done anything to change the destructive pattern of actions. When one realizes this, one wakes up. Wait and see for a good change in human attitude.
The cause of the action and the approval of the action are followed by greed, anger, delusion and ignorance, which could be slight, middle or intense and the result is infinite sorrow. When men are brutal and are not sensible to the feeling of others, they bring disaster and misery to the people.
As far as possible, one has to know, not to hurt others. Humility must characterize behavior. Compassion, kindness, and love helps the man to overcome anger. Compassion for the people and living things is the outcome of mercy.
Forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is easy, only for the spiritually evolved.
The greatest blessings in life always come from sharing and helping less privileged human beings. If you really want to be blessed, first make others blessed. It is not the receiver that is blessed, but it is the giver. Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world and thus become pure and perfect.
Service comes before profit and that the sort of business which makes the world better for its presence is a noble profession. - Henry Ford
Nursing homes and hospitals provide great service to people. A team of doctors and nurses work together; giving treatment to patients suffering from diseases and helping people to become better from ill health. Doctors and nurses dedicate their life being with people and helping them to lead a healthy life.
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Mahatma Gandhi
In one span of life, great people live the whole life of humanity. First they perfect themselves and then bring humanity to perfection. Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Great people are those who do charity works with their hearts.
Humanity is a thoughtful consideration of others peace and happiness; seeing the self in all things, is a true savior of mankind and a healer of the wounds of people.
Individually, we are one drop, together we are an ocean. The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. A mysterious bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. We ourselves feel that what we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. – Mother Teresa
Honor the person who has come to your place for alms. Never give them alms. People who treat other people as less than human, must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them poisoned.
Delight your life in helping others, poor and suffering. Remain special in the people’s hearts, live as one of the finest human being. Gladly sharing your heart and doing service to others will elevate one. Live your life well, if you are useful to people all your life, there will be a hundreds of people to take care of you.
Involve in a charitable exercise, or pursue activities which are designed to make the world a better place. Devote yourself loving others, "around you and creating something" that gives you purpose and meaning to your life. In spite of all that is happening in the world, everyone is constantly engaged in rendering service to the other and want to do something good for others.
Lay down your life for your own liberation and for the good of others. One must be ready to advance and lay down one’s life at the word of command, before he can command the hearts and lives of others’. One must sacrifice first. – Swami Vivekananda
We need to have three things:
1. The heart to feel.
2. The brain to conceive.
3. The hand to work.
You are a human being first, and should nurture people around you. True men and women are all physicians to make people well. Recognize the needs of others without an emotional commitment to anything. Apparently to help the others, is to really help yourselves….
You cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength; you must choose. Serve the nearest. There is no price for that which is given at the right moment. Believe in being fully present. Your concern should be with the person you’re with. Love is, when you are as concerned about someone else situation as you are about your own.
Working for love is freedom in action. The virtues that come out of our actions depend on the our heart, intentions, the circumstances in which it was given, to whom it was given and what the receiver was getting. The smaller things in life really are the greater concern for most people.
A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. - Persian Proverb
Humanity is to be equal-minded towards all things. True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting of shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavor to execute the actions which it suggests.
He, who gives, receives best; he who asks for little gains most. – G.B. Shaw
Help rendered to the poor and needy in time is the real service to humanity. Feel for the poor, the ignorant, the down trodden; feeding the hungry and quenching the thirst of the thirsty, and homeless… in the society. You will have to go to poor and serve them with your love and compassion. Arrange to distribute medicines to those who are sick, nurse them with all care and supply food to poor who are starving.
You should first reform their lives by making them stand on their own; and then some real work by them can be expected. Even the least work done for others awakens the power with in; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart a great strength.
Tell the poor, there is power in you to remove all wants and all miseries; vainly you are always trying to get help from others, which never comes. Tell them that ‘Self help is the best help’. Hope for nothing from anyone. You can do anything and everything; even time and space are nothing compared with your nature.
"The only service to be done for our lower classes is to give them basic education, to develop their lost individuality. Give them ideas. That is the only help they require, and then the rest must follow as the effect."
The education alone does not help the common mass of people to equip themselves for the struggle of life. Real education is that which enables one, to stand on his legs and of social rising. If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him to lead a better life.
We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. – Dalai Lama
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant to enact. Gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven. Gratitude makes you to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that will stand behind the action.
'Thanks’ is the word to express gratitude, an important ingredient for well being of you and others.
Disciplined life gives wisdom; and from wisdom comes unity and from unity love and brotherhood. From it brings peace and harmony in social life. Happy social life brings peace in society and from it spreads to the whole world.
“Live and Let live”, is a powerful humanitarian urge, brings the innate kindness, and concern for others. Hurt never, Help ever.
Love and compassion
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