Love and Selfishness [Gene Key 27]
From April 22 through April 27 the sun is in Gene Key 27. The path of this Gene Key is from Selfishness over Altruism to Selflessness
"There is no tonic in the world like unconditional giving. There is no power in heaven and earth greater than generosity. And most people think that you need to have a lot in order to give it away, but externally you can have nothing and be the most generous person alive.
Generosity is about how you spend your most precious commodity of all - your time. How do you spend your time? When you give of your heart freely to others, then strangely enough you create more time.
Joyousness actually makes time expand. Selfishness makes time contract. A selfish day will pass so quickly, because you are not breathing. An altruistic day, an open-hearted day will move rhythmically, like a great river flowing through the open plains, bringing nourishment to all beings."
-The 27th Way, Richard Rudd
The above quote reminds me of a teaching story Matt Kahn once told. He always tries to come up with new definitions of commonly used words (a very beautiful way to teach and something I love to do too)
He was asked once the big question of "What is Love?" and to make it clear and practical, he answered:
"Love is being generous with your time".
Of course Love is much more, but for someone coming from a perspective of Love being a feeling you have to one special person, this way of seeing it can loosen things up.
One thing's for sure: Love is not something that gets less, if you give it away. It's actually the only "thing" that gets more, the more you give it away. Love is the expression of abundance.
We have to overcome the notion of selflessness being something to work for. (and get rewards later)
To be selfless is actually a very selfish act, because giving and generosity are pure joy. 😀
This is one of the many teachings of this Gene Key. It's also called "The Food of Gods", because it is nourishment for our Soul. The original name of the 27th Gene Key in the I Ching is called "nourishment" for that reason.
So over the next days we have especially the chance to contemplate how acts of selfishness actually take away our joy. Your mind is the universe, so whom are you going to hurt, when you are selfish?
Also giving is never giving away something outside of yourself. You always give to yourself - even in the form of another.
Blessings,
Atmos 🙏
Man, I really enjoyed this one. This is something I really needed to hear. Lately I've been working on being more selfless, and you're so right, it does seem to add time.
This was your best yet in the Gene Keys series, I've been slacking. Heading to your other post I missed now!
Thank you so much! 🙏Well, I've been lazy writing stuff lately too - glad that you enjoyed it! ❤️
"To be selfless is actually a very selfish act, because giving and generosity are pure joy."
Oh yes, you expressed this almost exactly the way this has been floating around in my mind all the time☺
Virtually always we be and do anything for ourselves first. We are One appearing as many, so when we hurt others we primarily hurt ourselves, when we give Love to others we give Love to ourselves first. This is simply the realization that we can only love others to the extend we love ourselves, not vice versa. The more we love ourselves the more we can give Love to others. When we have compassion and empathy for others we mainly see the chance of healing duality within, which then ricochets to the other.
Doesn't matter which intentions others try to allege us having. WE know best.
How selfish to be selfless only to feed our selfishness! 😃
Yeah, I guess it comes down to which self one is talking about. The (real) Self or the (ego) self. The one is real and the other is illusionary. Either way, Love is the solution. In a world of endless questions, Love is the only answer! 🙏
I have a few days that I read to you and I love the things you write for us, we should not be selfish, we should not be millionaires to be generous or help others.
Today I learned that from you
Aww, you are so sweet! Thank you so much! ❤️
I am always attentive to what you publish, I love reading you I think you give us many encouragement to many and try to understand things a bit or see things differently and achieve inner peace @armosblack
I love the meaning that love has, many of us have another meaning for the
Thank you so much! I'm honored by your words. 🙏
Wow, that is a thoughtful way of describing it! It does make sense because time is a part of our lives that we can never get back once it is gone and it is definitely a special thing when we choose to give it to someone. Thank you for sharing this.
You are very welcome! ❤️
good informations @atmosblack
thank you for sharing
I Am a new follwer for you
resteemid
You're right when you say most people think you need to have a lot to give it away, but externally you can not have anything and be the most generous person alive, sometimes we believe that we need money a lot of money to be generous and give but I think not it's like this, we can be generous giving love, respect and so many things that others need
Indeed - all these things you are mentioning are free. Thank you! 🙏
Leaders are the givers. Giving allows for getting in return. This s not taking.
Love is the base for our existence. When you love freely, you give freely. With this is is joy in abundance.
The same applies to love, give love and I normally would be reciprocated. When you don’t give, you don’t expect to get. It’s that simple
Thank information