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Creating More Magic In Your Life By Masami Sato – Simple Quotes
Part 3 of 3
This beautiful collection of unique quotes is sure to inspire you to live a simple life full of miracles and joy is excerpted from ONE, a book by Masami Sato. The quotes in this series include topics that are profoundly related to our lives, such as mastering things, simplicity, honesty, imagination, magic, and problems. This article is the final on in the three part series – “ONE Book Life-Changing Quotes Series”.
On mastering things
“When something more effective and easy comes along, we let go of the harder way very quickly without being ‘taught’.”
“Doing things we’ve never done can often seem very difficult and complicated until the day we actually try them out.”
“Friends share with us what they think and feel. Teachers teach us what to do and how to do it. Coaches ask us who we want to be. Mentors show us who we can be. Masters show us who we really are.”
“(Children) learn by playing and become the masters of the game. And they do it just by having fun.”
On honesty
“When we held back our feelings and said things only to please others, often we ended up upsetting someone later.”
“There is no such thing as an unbreakable promise for the future.”
On imagination
“in our imagination, we can do anything.”
On magic
“Miracles are not accidents. We create them through our choices.”
What problems?
“There are always reasons for everything to exist in this world. And so-called ‘problems’ and ‘issues’ only exist for us to see something beyond, so that we get to experience the next, positive transformation.”
“There was nothing to ’solve’, just something to share.”
On simplicity
“If we count all the things we love in our life, we may find the way to bring in more simplicity and joy into it”
“Maybe it’s actually all very simple. No worries-tomorrow is just another day!
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The Secrets Of Giving
The secret of attaining what one wants has been revealed. It is just the simple act of giving. The basis of this is explained in the background of the classical dictum “Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?” Chicken and the egg, continuously forming the cycle of life and renewing it, is a profound example of giving and getting what one wants: the circle of joy. This idea is fully analyzed in the resonant voice of Masami Sato, the author of the book ONE.
As humans, most of us naturally have endless desires for all kinds of things. And of course, the traditional principals of economics tell us that while wants are unlimited, resources are limited. This induces us to think, the more and more resources we have, the more and more desires we will be able to fulfill. We become very protective of our resources. We then think sharing or giving these resources will reduce the portion that can be used to get what we want. This is the traditional win-lose game that is being played.
Could it be true, then?
And if the answer is “no” what then? What if it actually goes against the secret of getting more? What if the secret to earn more is simple – just by managing to give more?
You can get something simply by giving. Just like you can have eggs by breeding chickens. Just like that. Natural. Automatic. And it’s an absolutely joyful experience.
First of all, let us begin with some analogy to explain things.
Chicken and Egg: The Circle of Life
Philosophers have asked this question since the dawn of time, “Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?”
The answer to this endless discussion is simple: It actually doesn’t matter because both chickens and eggs are here now. But if we want to have more great outcomes, we can choose to start somewhere.
Giving and Taking: the Ring of Joy
What if we asked the question in a different manner? “Which comes first, giving or receiving?”
Again, if we want a better outcome, we should choose to start somewhere. Giving off things to others is certainly easier than striving to get it first!
What happens if we are trying to get it first?
If we yearn to own something, naturally we would try to get it. And once we get it, we would try to hold on to it. This is absolutely normal – it does make sense logically.
But the real results of ‘trying to get’ are often not abundance and real long-term rewards.
For example, hoping to see others happy is not at all about deriving joy from them, or manipulating them to become happy. It is about how much happiness we can give them and thereby share with them. Full stop.
So how do we begin to get what we desire?
By starting from the reverse end – by giving generously!
When we give first before we actually fully have what we really want – what we dream of – we send a very powerful message to ourselves that says, “there is enough, and more will come”. It allows us to experience the joy today – the joy of giving.
All that is required of us is to give out the love in abundance to others. It would somehow come back to us. Giving love is the only way to be completely loved. When we recognize others for the big things they do and great credentials they have, again it would come back to us. Others accept us because we accept them.
In the same way, if we wanted to have enough in our life materially, financially and emotionally, we just need to share the things we want generously with others.
Some would give more physically by giving their time. Some would give more financially by giving money away. The people who give more (time, money, kindness, love, ideas) have more of these things because that’s the balance. And balance is the natural law of life.
Just remember the rule of the game
One rule: never expect a return when we give.
When we have the expectation that giving should create ‘getting’ something back, we get upset when we don’t see the result coming back immediately to us. We may even hold unpleasant feelings towards the recipient of our gift. And clearly, holding a negative feeling for someone is not a pleasant or kind thing to do! So we can feel the real joy of giving when we’re doing something for others knowing that we’re simply doing it for ourselves-we’re doing it for our own joy!
Losing to win, giving to get..
In the beginning it may appear that we are the losers. Still, at some level we realize that receiving things without giving anything is not a realistic life pattern. We have always been aware of it. That is the reason why giving away a part of their income has been a pattern with many well known people. And they have not done it openly, so it was not done to make themselves popular. It was just the way they wanted it to be.
Just take a look around. ‘Simple’ forms of life on the earth do it routinely. The bumblebees fertilize the flowers in return for the honey they take from them and ensure that the flowers bloom profusely. Habitually. That is the rule. They do not do it consciously. That is why they maintain nature’s balance, without even trying.
Giving to another is just a role of who we are, it is the same as having; nothing more, nothing less. No confusion, no strings attached, just letting go easily.
The essence of getting more can be stated in two steps: Give first, and do not expect to get anything in return.
When we let go and give wholeheartedly, what we need will be given to us. Automatically.
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