They look a little crazy because they are illogical, they are unmathematical – but they are absolutely true. They transcend ordinary economics and its laws; they indicate a meta-economics.

Those who dare give nothing
are left with less than nothing….

Beware! While the time is there, give, give as much as you can, give whatsoever you can. Sing a song, share a joke, dance! Give whatsoever you can give. It costs you nothing, but it will bring you more and more joys.

Existence goes on repaying you tremendously. Whatsoever you give to existence, it returns a thousandfold; it comes back to you. You give one flower, and a thousand flowers shower on you. Don’t be clingers. If you really want to be rich, if you want to have an enriched inner world, then learn the art of giving.

Those who dare give nothing
are left with less than nothing;
Dear Heart, you give me everything,
which leaves you more than everything –
though those who dare give nothing
might judge it left you nothing.

Giving you everything,
I too, who once had nothing,
am left with more than everything
as gifts for those with nothing
who need, if not our everything,
at least a loving something.

I don’t have any other source than you have, but you are not ready to accept that source; it goes against your ego. You want to be an island unto yourself, and that is your misery, that is your poverty. Your soul will remain undernourished. You will not know how beautiful existence is, how blissful every moment can be, what an ecstasy it is just to breathe and to be.

Give, give for giving’s sake. Share for sharing’s sake. Don’t ask anything in return, because then it becomes a business – and love is not a business. In fact, there is no need to be worried whether anything returns or not, because the very giving is such an ecstasy that who cares whether anything returns or not? Be obliged to the person who receives anything from you. Don’t think that he has to be obliged to you. That is wrong, that is absolutely wrong. That is still clinging to the miser’s mind.

You can be as vast as God himself, but your vastness is possible only if you start giving. And it is not a question of what you give; just a smile or just a gesture of love is enough. It costs nothing to be loving, to be kind, and still it brings you a great harvest – thousands of flowers start blossoming in your being.

You ask me, “What is the source of your infinite spring of giving?”

I am not the source, I am not at all, because the more you are, the less is the flow from the source; the less you are, the more the flow from the source.