Resilient Generosity

Gratitude for grace already received is a robust measure of generosity. Compassion scans for generosity's fullness felt within as incarnated without As dispassion predicts greed's anxious emptiness. Giving is physical and/or verbal while generosity is mental and nonverbal. Giving, like loving, hoping for a return of grace within your lifetime's future, does not share or stretch your gift of generosity. Giving, hoping to receive in equal measure, plus interest, plus loyalty, plus admiration for our generosity, is an investment which counts the cost of risking loss Not necessarily a failure of gratitude, or love, for oneself as for Other, and also not an outward compassionate act of inward mind-nourishing generosity.