 life is a gift that you didn't earn it. You didn't earn your mother gestating you. Like you never paid for that. You didn't earn the sun or water. It's a tremendous gift. And acknowledging that and really taking that in is transformative when you have grown up in a culture that ignores that fact because when you know that you've been so richly gifted the natural response is gratitude and the desire to give and turn generosity comes from gratitude and that is really half the purpose of life to give of the gift of life that we received toward life. That's what life does. It creates more life and that's half our purpose here. The other half obviously is to receive because the gift of life is not a one-time gift. It's an ongoing gift and I mean life not just in the sense of the organism staying alive but I mean the fullness of life which includes the richness of experience all of the joys and pleasures and all struck apprehension of the the miracles the magnificence of nature the the sights and the sounds and the pain also but also what's on the other side of the pain and the love the connection all that we receive we are here to receive and the more fully that we receive the more grateful we are and the more we have to give.