What is better. Giving or receiving?

Question

And why?

Answer 1

Giving is much more satisfying to me, I just love the look on their faces, dont get me wrong....I do enjoy receiving too, everyone does

Answer 2

This question shows quite some innocence. It is not the question what is better. Giving and receiving is both essential part of life and all beings. On a primitive level when it is limited to survival, then the receiving comes first, but with humans there should be a difference in so far as giving and receiving should be in balance or better said: A person should be like a balance, the scale pans go up and down, when giving and receiving, but one must not be too excited about it. As more one is in the center of the balance beam, as more one can stay calm, what doesn't mean one cannot enjoy both sides: Giving and receiving.
Another issue is the motivation why one is giving. Is it because one is relating to a situation or person and there is the need to do something? Because one wants to help or just because it feels right? Not asking or expecting anything in return? Then there will be receiving at the same time and it might be that we get back the double or more than we have given.
If we relate to life and whatever shows up in our daily situations, then it depends how we respond. If one is expecting in the first place, then one is not open to receive and might miss the best opportunities. If one gives when it is necessary, open for the needs of others, then one also is open to receive. It is that simple!
If a person is in balance, then will have had the experience that whatever is necessary will show up in its right moment. So giving means to relate and respond to every moment in life and then the receiving will come by itself and one not only will receive the right lessons to learn and to develop oneself, but also every thing else.
This is not very well known and people believe they must fight and work hard to get what they need and this in the first place and only then comes the need of others. This is the attitude of the established materialistic worldview and unfortunately a religious or moral concept doesn’t change much about it.
We should know, that we are not separated from our surrounding and others and if we care, then we will be taken care as well and be part of the abundance...
BeiYin

Answer 3

Receiving!!!

Answer 4

By asking this question, you are asking about attitudes. Is it better to live one’s life with the attitude to be a giver or the attitude to be a receiver? I think that if one needs a concept to life one’s life, then the better attitude to go by is to be a giver. I think people start out on in the journey of life with the attitude of being takers, then when they get tired of this, then they adopt the attitude of being givers, then there is another step after this where one has no attitude in regards to this at all. One knows that one receives all the time, and there’s nothing that one can do about it at the time when the ‘receiving’ is happening. One then realizes that one’s whole life is actually one of giving, and that what you truly give or ‘put out there’, you will truly receive or ‘get back in return’. What you receive may or may not be to your liking, but if you can look at what you receive objectively as being neither good or bad, but rather as the happening, than you can question what life is offering ‘back to you’ and learn about the true nature of what you are truly giving. When you come to this point and start questioning what life is trying to tell you with it’s offerings to you, then you will realize that how you perceive or interpret your happenings, has a lot to do with one’s ability to be able to give in a pure way, because your perception will affect your decision in any situation. When you realize this, then you see that you have millions of choices and that life is giving you opportunities to give in all kinds of ways and to all kinds of people, all the time. Then you start to learn the lessons of discrimination.

Betsy

Answer 5

The cliche "it is better to give than to receive" led many people to be ungracious about accepting things from others. Often, another person may derive pleasure from giving or doing something for you, but if you are reluctant or unwilling to accept it, the giver may feel rejected. The point is that neither giving nor receiving is better. It is best to give and receive.

Answer 6

I definitely prefer giving.

It is not like I have a lot. I guess you could actually say that "I travel light through life" is a good description for me, because, compared to a lot of people, I have a very small amount of possessions.

What is most important to me...my emotional involvement with my family, my friends, my involvement with my community...that is all done without actual physical exchange of gifts.

Gift giving should be left between intimates, I think. That is, your intimate family, your closest friends, and your intimate partner. Because a gift, whether it be store bought or homemade should say first of all "I know the person you are, and because you mean so much to me, I decided to give you this, because I know you will enjoy it".

I do not feel comfortable receiving gifts from those I barely know because of those reasons. Heck...to be honest, I get more from watching the joy on my family's faces as they open their gifts, then I do opening my own....but I KNOW that they have the same requirement as I...to see that joy on MY face, so I accept the need for this, because of this.

So, FOR ME, giving is definitely better than receiving. But I bet that for most people it is the same way.

Answer 7

It’s awkward for me to receive and give. When I give I don’t like to be around when the gift is delivered. I believe in giving when a gift is needed not because I enjoy the look on their faces. I will be gracious when receiving a gift because I know that some people get their reward by watching your expression. You always have to be aware of other people’s feelings and what motivates them.

Answer 8

Receivers hand is always down. So, I think it is better to be giving.

Answer 9

Giving to me is better. I always like to give stuff to people. When some one is in need of some thing that I have and I am not using it, I will give it to them. I am just a giving type of person.

Answer 10

Giving is suppose to be so much more rewarding. But, it has been so long since I have received anything, I would like to do that for a change.