Learn that the whole of life is giving, that nature will force you to give. So, give willingly.
Sooner or later you will have to give up. You come into life to accumulate. With clenched hands, you want to take. But nature puts a hand on your throat and makes your hands open.
Whether you will it or not, you have to give. The moment you say, "I will not", the blow comes; you are hurt. None is there but will be compelled, in the long run, to give up everything. And the more one struggles against this law, the more miserable one feels.
It is because we dare not give, because we are not resigned enough to accede to this grand demand of nature, that we are miserable.
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in Los Angeles
Sooner or later you will have to give up. You come into life to accumulate. With clenched hands, you want to take. But nature puts a hand on your throat and makes your hands open.
Whether you will it or not, you have to give. The moment you say, "I will not", the blow comes; you are hurt. None is there but will be compelled, in the long run, to give up everything. And the more one struggles against this law, the more miserable one feels.
It is because we dare not give, because we are not resigned enough to accede to this grand demand of nature, that we are miserable.
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in Los Angeles
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