Receiving

We find that when we try to hold and own something

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It dries up.
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The pleasure that is.
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Holding and making something yours is a sure way to reduce and remove the pleasure from it.
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Owning things as well that is.
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This might take some time.
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Happen it must though because the urge to own is destined to failure because as soon as you own there is a desire for more.
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For the next want, must have festering away silently moving you towards more want and must have.
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You can never be satisfied in a material world of stuff.
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Because anything contained within a boundary must contain as well its own exhaustion.

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For us to receive true ongoing pleasure and satisfaction we must also be willing to give.
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And not only willing to give in a calculated way.
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Giving because something in our being wants to give, just because it feels right.

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No calculation 
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Just the urge to be generous, without thought for self or cost.
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Then we can receive.
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Receive what?
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What the universe or nature feels to give you.
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And this can take any form.
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Nature looks after those who support her creative drive.
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Once entered upon this cycle of giving and receiving it can grow to encompass the whole of one's life.
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Not many do.
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Why not?
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They have fear that they will have nothing.
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That they will lose everything.
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It is only when you risk
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When you genuinely let go.
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When you truly give without thought for self that nature rewards.
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She does not reward calculation.
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Generosity and compassion she rewards.
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And yes she looks after those who serve her.
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Is there anything else more rewarding?

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Not that we know of.