Generosity
Questions
How has your definition of generosity changed since you were younger?
How has your enjoyment of generosity changed since you were younger?
Who taught you the most about being a generous person?
Has being generous ever led to you becoming “richer”?
Has generosity ever healed you?
What’s been your greatest act of generosity?
What’s been your hardest act of generosity?
Have you ever wished your parent(s) had been more generous in some way?
How might Life be calling you to be generous in a new way in your closest relationships?
Without knowing it, we all put boundaries and limits around our generosity. How might the storylines and beliefs passed on to you by your family or society be hemming in what you have to give to the world?
Do you have trouble giving yourself permission to receive the generosity or help of others? What storyline might be hemming in your ability to receive that generosity?
Some say that attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Who needs the gift of your attention?
Some say that giving liberates and frees the giver. How might Life be trying to free you by asking you to give?
What if the secret is giving to others what we wish to receive ourselves?
How good are you at being generous with yourself?
How easy is it for you to receive the generosity or help of others?
Tell about a time when someone’s gift of attention came to you when you needed it most?
French author Andre Gide wrote, “All you are unable to give possesses you.” Has that ever been true for you?