If God is a reality for you, generosity, compassion, love therefore have a deep and spiritual meaning, it is therefore fundamental and essential for you to express them concretely. Not for any remuneration or the assurance of redemption, but in addition to the happiness of obeying, for the obviousness of a generous remuneration inevitably leading to an unequaled peace of mind.
Some philosophers and psychologists for decades have scrutinized human behavior for whether genuine altruism exists and whether it can be viewed as non-selfish personal worth.
They have commonly come to the conclusion that selfless love is a personal value and, moreover, it seems to be rewarding and vastly rewarding.
In 1964 the biologist William Donald Hamilton in his theory on the selection of Kinship for which he obtained many prestigious prizes and which is a reference in sociobiology, demonstrates that in nature, for its simplest as well as the most complex mechanisms, the altruism is a necessity for the survival of a species.
It is indisputable that selfless love, altruism, empathy are not just social or religious values but they are universal values.
We are obviously neither the first nor the only ones to think that it is essential to try to escape selfishness in order to turn to others.
Here are some thoughts.
« Generosity only has meaning when there is a birth of meaning in the beneficiary. "
Jah Wembo Olela cultivators, feeders, Congo, Mundeke, 1957
“Selfishness is singular, altruism is plural. "
Ardit Beqiri, Macedonia, Kicevo 1994
« Kindness is man's most powerful, cheapest, and most underrated agent of change.
Bob Kerrey (Joseph Robert Kerrey) American politician (1943-)
“Helping to make people happier is to deserve to be oneself. "
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
« What is not useful to the swarm is not useful to the bee either. "
Marc Aurèle, Former Roman Emperor, Philosopher and Writer, (121-180)
« It is not good for anything to only be good for yourself. "
Voltaire (1694-1778)
“Act towards others as you would like them to act towards you. "
Confucius. (551-479 BC)
« Giving to the poor is like lending to the Lord, he will reward this generosity. "
Proverb 19:17 (Fluent French)
“Life is a gift and it gives us the privilege, the opportunity and the responsibility to give something back by becoming better. "
Anthony robbins
“It is more beautiful to illuminate than to shine only; in the same way it is more beautiful to transmit to others what one has contemplated than to contemplate only. "
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher (1225-1274)
“Altruism is to keep the heart turned towards others, even when the fate persists on altruism. "
Patrick Louis Richard, France, Toulouse, 1958