Many of the conditions of being, as well as the circumstances of life and the rewards, we experience presented to us as contradictions. Some are outright dichotomies of experience.
For instance, relative to Love you need to give it away to keep it. You cannot experience love for yourself until you are exchanging it with another. In the Christian Bible, we are told he who was first is last and he who is last his first this is an explanation of the magnificent of humility.
This quote from Lao Tzu expands on this realization.
The prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi also enumerates this understanding with the closing line:
“For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
As we give to the world we receive. Through the act of serving others, our needs are met. All the magnificence in the full spectrum of life is present consciousness ministers to itself.
All of love comes from within and is projected outward.