Generosity
Crises invoke empathy. We find ourselves thinking: what if that had been me? And often, it so easily could have been – there, but for fortune, go you or I. But what happens when the calamity slips back out of the headlines? Does our generosity go back into hibernation? And what about the much larger, creeping disasters? What will trigger our generosity when the needs seem so overwhelming, so persistent, so far away, so unlike to affect me? Perhaps reciprocity is a more reliable catalyst for giving – you reap what you sow, what goes around comes around. This is the ancient law of karma and the modern law of physics – every action has a reaction.
— Wayne Visser
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