The art of giving and receiving

Excerpt from the full text (to be released in February 2012):

Criticism exaggerating only the incompetence of social and charitable organisations for the improvement of transparencies and the monitoring of democratization within their administration, removes the imperative of simple community development towards freedom and happiness that we seek through welfare. Now consider the consciousness of the source of our wealth: the human self. It is more instrumental- for understanding the reality invented by our collective imagination- than our disparately measured sharing habits. Because of our deficient appreciation of the source, we’re in an imaginary vortex dispiriting community consciousness. When we imagine the inequality and lack of growth, we cannot serve the community generously. Seeing that the type of wealth which is meant to give us the satisfaction we demand, is being snatched away from us, is not only because we have created the confinement of its capacity to satisfy us. The irony is, as receivers we are giving it away. And at the same time are not satisfied by the services we have been providing, because the same principle by which we imagine the infertility of common wealth, is the reason we don’t find the generosity in ourselves to make the standards possible. The criticism discredits our first quality: that we want community. But the weakness of our struggle is due to a sense of mistrust and irregularities in the character of common welfare. That character is defined by our own reflection that a real community reach is unobtainable.

In the art of giving and receiving, the simplest apparatus that balances community is consciousness of self. The balancing of personal wealth results in contentment that is also then felt on a community level.