guru Brocantage

Do good for its own sake. Then alone will come perfect non-attachment.

When you help the poor, feel not the slightest pride.
Be thankful for the opportunity to give.

You are not educated when merely you are well-schooled.
You are truly educated only when you are enlightened by inner truth.
For inner truth takes dead facts and makes them live; it inspires the heart to the use of knowledge for the service of others.
It is through the heart, not the intellect, that the Lord is seen.

We are never born and we never die.
Each atom is a living thing, leading its own independent life.
These atoms combine into groups for an end, and the groups manifest a group intelligence, so long as it remains a group, these groups again combining in turn and forming bodies of a more complex nature, which serve as vehicles for higher forms of consciousness.
When death comes to the physical body, the cells separate and scatter and that which we call decay sets in.
The force which held the cells together is withdrawn, and they become free to go their own way and to form new combinations.

Be grateful that the poor man is there so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.