To have a generous heart is to be always joyful and happy in the happiness and joy of others and to remain in harmony with all and to approach them with kindness. This attitude helps much to widen the consciousness and to open the hear and the mind to the Divine’s influence and thus you get joy and happiness from everything.
It is in that way that generosity can put an end to most difficulties.
[Mother, You Said So by Huta, pg.22-23]
I shall not speak here of material generosity which naturally consists in giving others what one has. But even this virtue is not very widespread, for as soon as one becomes rich one thinks more often of keeping one’s wealth than of giving it away. The more men possess, the less are they generous.
I want to speak of moral generosity. To feel happy, for example, when a comrade is successful. An act of courage, of unselfishness, a fine sacrifice have a beauty in them which gives you joy. It may be said that moral generosity consists in being able to recognise the true worth and superiority of others.
[CWM2, 4:30]
When you no longer have this generosity in your movements, you receive much less and this is one of the reasons—one of the chief reasons—why physical progress stops.
[CWM2, 5:208]
One can see, when one studies oneself very attentively…. For example, if you observe yourself, you see that one day you are very generous. Let us take this, it is easy to understand. Very generous: generous in your feelings, generous in your sensations, generous in your thoughts and even in material things; that is, you understand the faults of others, their intentions, weaknesses, even nasty movements. You see all this, and you are full of good feelings, of generosity. You tell yourself, “Well… everyone does the best he can!”—like that.
[CWM2, 6:262]
233 – Nobleness and generosity are the soul’s ethereal firmament; without them, one looks at an insect in a dungeon.
[Thoughts and Aphorisms by Sri Aurobindo]
Generosity is to find one’s own satisfaction in the satisfaction of others.
[CWM2, 10:282]
For one who has developed a truly refined taste will, because of this very refinement, feel incapable of acting in a crude, brutal or vulgar manner. This refinement, if it is sincere, brings to the being a nobility and generosity which will spontaneously find expression in his behaviour and will protect him from many base and perverse movements.
[CWM2, 12:21]
The leaders must always set the example, the leaders must always practice the virtues they demand from those who are in their care; they must be understanding, patient, enduring, full of sympathy and warm and friendly goodwill, not out of egoism to win friends for themselves, but out of generosity to be able to understand and help others.
[CWM2, 12:355-56]
What are the rules of conduct You consider indispensable in our community?
Patience, perseverance, generosity, broad-mindedness, insight, calm and understanding firmness, and control over the ego until it is completely mastered or even abolished.
[CWM2, 12:374]
Psychic generosity gives for the joy of giving.
[CWM2, 14:338]
Generosity in the vital gives itself unstintingly.
[CWM2, 14:354]
Generosity gives and gives itself without bargaining.
[CWM2, 15:50]