150. People Are Better Than You Think: 4 Ways to Awaken Generosity
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Light of the Creator is the source of all blessings and a model of the selfless energy with which we can aspire to give. But how do we tune into this kind of generosity so we can give without hesitation or restraint? In this episode of Spiritually Hungry, we discuss the importance of whole-hearted generosity.
“Not only do I have a choice about which part of me I will live my life directed towards—the altruistic or selfish part of me—how I view the world, how I interact with people, and how I try to uplift people is very much my responsibility, as well.” – Michael Berg
Further Readings:
The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
by Yochai Benkler
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
by Marcel Mauss and W. D. Halls
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| 0:00.0 | Why does it feel good to give? |
| 0:11.0 | Because in those moments, you are coming in contact with, you are becoming at one with |
| 0:17.0 | a source of all goodness. Welcome to spiritually hungry. |
| 0:26.9 | What was that? |
| 0:28.5 | It's been a time, I say. |
| 0:32.1 | I think that's partly why we wanted to discuss what we're going to discuss today, and that is the idea of |
| 0:40.3 | generosity. I think that most of us would like to consider ourselves, I think most of us consider |
| 0:48.2 | ourselves generous. |
| 0:49.2 | Is that true? Or at least we'd like to. |
| 0:51.3 | It's a very good question, I wonder. |
| 0:53.3 | I wonder. Everybody asks yourself. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm sure the studies about this. |
| 0:56.4 | Everybody asked yourself this question. Do you consider yourself a |
| 0:59.4 | Well, it has to be on a scale of 1 to 10. How generous are you? |
| 1:02.9 | It's an interesting question. |
| 1:05.4 | But if I can, I would go a step back. And I think really at the core, and this is what, where I especially |
| 1:13.8 | I think in these times it's an important question. |
| 1:17.1 | And I'm not sure if we all think about this a lot, but we definitely live our lives based |
| 1:22.2 | on some assumptions about the answer to this question, but I'm not sure that many of us |
| 1:25.5 | have actually taken the time to think through this question. And that is, are people generally good or generally bad? Or put |
| 1:34.8 | otherwise, do people behave selfishly most of the time, or do people behave with generosity |
| 1:42.5 | most of the time? Which I think is a very interesting question. |
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