I undertake to practice generosity by sharing my time, energy, and material resources with those who are in real need. This sentence is clear. The feeling of generosity and the capacity for being generous are not enough. We also need to express our generosity. Life is for more than using time to make money.
Time is for being alive, for sharing joy and happiness with others.
The wealthy are often the least able to make others happy. Only those with time can do so. With only a bicycle, he visits villages of thirteen provinces, bringing something for this family and something for that family. When I met him in 1965, I was a little too proud of our School of Youth for Social Service. We had begun to train three hundred workers, including monks and nuns, to go out to rural villages to help people rebuild homes and modernize local economies, health-care systems, and education.