Giving and receiving must be equal in your life.
We cannot expect to receive from others
what we do not wish to give others.
He who actively is much, gives much.
The more we receive the more we can give,
and the more we give the greater our capacity to receive.
The act of giving produces as much joy as the act of receiving,
because both add to the richness of existence.
Before we can live a great life
and receive from the external world
those things that naturally belong to a great life,
we must give forth into real life
more and more of our own inherent greatness.
Before we can receive as much from the world of things
as our largest personal needs and desires may demand,
we must unfold, develop and use those powers and talents
that are necessary to the building of greater and greater things.
To become all that we are destined to become,
we must receive the largest possible measure from every source,
but we cannot receive the largest possible measure from any source
unless we give all we have the power to give
whenever we have the privilege to do so.
And this privilege is ever present.
By placing ourselves in that position
where we can constantly give more and more
and constantly receive more and more,
we not only add more and more
to the richness and beauty and perfection of our own life,
but we become a great power for good in the world.
And that is our highest aim.
The more we give to the whole of life
the more we shall receive from the whole of life.
Do not limit the giving of your greatest self
to any one part or any one group of parts.
Live for the universe
and all that the vastness of the cosmos may contain.
