What do you believe that is more important for our happiness, to give or to take?
When do you feel real happiness? When you offer to others or when you take from others?
I do not think that it is even possible to get any true feelings of happiness by taking from others, or by deceiving others, or just by being unkind to others. Giving makes us happy, and when we are feeling real happiness, there is nothing to keep us from giving that away to others as well, which makes us happier, and so on. Have a great day.
Thank you, Paul, for your beautiful answer. I agree with you.
Happiness is due to feelings that you experience because of an act. The act may be for your benefit or for the benefit of others. It doesn't matter whether it's giving or taking, in both the cases if pure intention, a sense of selfless service and love persist... then every act, for you, for others from you or for you from others, will be a true source of happiness.
If you analyze the happiest people, you may find all these possibilities of being at happiest state.
Act with love... You are so right my brother Muhammad. Thank you a lot for your answer.
It's not necessarily the one or the other. Basically, I think that doing both is the most healthy way to live, as long as your intentions are always derived from heart. And I find that the word "take" has been given a very bad reputation, which leads to people being miserable for not being able to accept all those great things others can offer to them, or even feeling guilty when they claim what they need from others and life. So, to sum it up, yes it's an amazing thing to have a huge heart that always gives, but it is also very healthy and realistic to take what you need as long as you do it with respect, respect for yourself and others.
You are so close to what I had in mind when I wrote this question. I admire your approach once again. I am happy to have this answer on my page. Thank you!
Giving is an outpouring of a selfless and soulful Heart to others; to humanity. Its crucial purpose is to widen or expand the psychic Heart. Without receptivity, it is very hard for the Heart to receive and selfless giving, service, gratitude and so forth, all widen the Heart.
Receptivity or receiving, if you like, is just as important. They go hand in hand. So we receive through our meditations, our prayers in the mornings and then we can use what we receive to serve the spiritually hungry world. Worship is really life in action without breaks. Note I did not say 'taking.' This can sometimes be a very selfish thing. Nice question.
Thank you manatita44 for another thoughtful answer! You are honoring my page.
Thank you, my Brother. We are both divine flames of the One.
Maybe this doesn't exactly answer your question, but I find that when I am giving, I am also taking. Many times, the rewards that come from giving include happiness and if happiness is the motivation for a particular deed, it is also taking. Even so, it happens far more often that the greater happiness is in giving rather than taking.
Thank you Shanmarie for your honest answer. I hope you'll find happiness through giving.
We need to be actively doing both.
To give, allows the soul/spirit to show its generosity of heart and give the receiver an opportunity in life.
To be able to receive is equally important. To receive, is to give the giver the experience of feeling generous and using their heart.
It feel it shouldn't be one way or the other.
If we only give, to me, it is a form of control-benevolent control. If we only receive, it may lean from a helping hand to taking advantge of somone's goodwill.
So, let us give each other the experiences of giving and receiving.
"To receive, is to give the giver the experience of feeling generous and using their heart." I love that. I have written a story about that. Thank ThreeKeys for your answer.
I feel that when we offer to others especially to those who needs our help it will bring satisfaction to me and when I receive something from others I will feel happy.Only a satisfied mind can realize the happiness so both giving and taking are essential for happiness.
Thnk you, Jagatheesh. I hope many people to read your answer.
by renju mathew 16 years ago
According to me religion can give nothing to yout soul.Religion will not take you any where except to satisfy some social obligations.
by Vandana 6 years ago
Suddenly this question strike in my mind today ... " Which is more important LOVE OR MONEY" to live a happy life ?? If any one have to select her partner which criteria one should follow for choosing her life partner..
by Abhishek Raj 7 years ago
Why are we here on Earth ?What am i supposed to do here ?that's a spiritual kind of question. But it's haunting me since morning. Everyday we wake up, go to work and then get to sleep. Is that's only the life ? Only this much ? What is your opinion ?
by keepitnatural 12 years ago
Would you give up a billionaire lifestyle for true love? What is most important in life for you?
by graceinus 11 years ago
What is your understanding of God's Grace through Faith and how do you receive Grace?Is God's grace hard to receive? What exactly is required for someone to receive Grace. What spiritual value does God's grace have on someone's life? Can someone who has God's grace lose it because of sin after they...
by davidkaluge 11 years ago
I want to know what is important to all those that belief in God that is Christians, Muslim and other religious groups. Is their interest for people to do the right things or they want people to follow them. That is, is the interest of each group for instance Christians and Muslim that...
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |