What is True Giving? Or, Do You Have An ?Equation Mentality?? (2)
Ah, yes!
That?s the secret!
Give without expecting return — give because your heart moves you to give — give because it?s your joy to give — and you?re in the flow of life itself.
?All I can say is that maybe the Cosmos handles the rest,? Paul told me. ?I?ve been blessed in my life but I didn?t give to be blessed. The cosmos just took care of me.?
I love how Paul Hartunian explained all of this to me. He gave such a practical, level-headed view of giving. ?I have no problem with someone being recognized for giving,?
he added. ?But if you give because you want recognition or you expect a ten-fold return, then you?re not giving, you?re calculating.?
Paul walks his talk. Around Christmas of 2002 he sent me an email and asked if I had anything of a spiritual nature he could giveto the readers of his e-newsletter. He said he always gave them publicity and money-making advice. Now he wanted to give them something spiritual.
I suggested he let his fans read the e-book version of my #1 best-seller, Spiritual Marketing. I told him anyone could read the eversion online at http://www.mrfire.com/spirit Paul let his readers know. He was very generous to do so. After all, he didn?t make a dime off my book and never would from this endorsement. He was simply giving.
Now the punch line here is that Paul had, at that time, about 76,000 readers. That meant his gift (and my gift, too) touched a lot of lives. Paul gave from his heart. I gave from my heart. How this will come back to us, no one knows—except maybe the Cosmos.
Are you giving?
Taken From: Making Secret in History
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