Extra notes about Chapter 2 – Defining Receiving and Giving – in the book,
The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent.
Other notes are found here.
Quotes
We have all been given a gift, the gift of life. What we do with our lives is our gift back.
– Edo
But the perfect tools aren’t going to help us if we can’t face each other, and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask, without shame…. When we really see each other, we want to help each other.
– Amanda Palmer (TED talk)
We have a deep desire, a need, to contribute. The human heart is created to serve, and when we can’t contribute our gifts, we don’t feel fulfilled.
– Mark Silver
There were a couple of occasions in India when I was twenty that felt to me like going out with a thimble in your hand, hoping to catch a drop of rain, and having the ocean land on your head. These experiences convinced me that there is an absolute love that pervades everything.
– David James Duncan, quoted by Sherman Alexie
If you hate being needy, that’s your brain in a constant state of stress, because the human nervous system is extremely evolved for safe emotional connection to others. Needing others is SO BASIC to our human biology – that teaching people not to need others is teaching trauma. And the major tool for that is shame.
– Allyson Dinneen, Notes from your Therapist
books
The Gift, by Lewis Hyde
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, by Amanda Palmer
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition, by Charles Eisenstein
Poetry and Song