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DYNAMIC MENU Welcome Photographies communities of Africa Photographies G.A. in Brussels A Gift ? Local Events some exemples Communities of Africa Actualities Nobility of sharing Articles et courriers C.A. et Relais Régionaux Open Window ... Our spiritual roots Return to homepage following page ...This drawing represents a statuette which is the work of a Rwandan artist. We see two women, one turned to the other one. Figures are stylized, what gives them a universal value. Here is how we can understand this drawing: the scene expresses sharing . The left woman is squatted and presents a bowl. That of the right holds out the hand with some hesitation, a little hampered. The one who holds the bowl is the one who gives, but she does not look with a haughty gesture. She makes small. She does not look of at the top, with a superiority complex. It is much rather this: " may I offer you anything? ". She looks at the other one with a certain anxiety: is she going to take? Will she be satisfied? The right figure does not set with greediness. She moves back. She receives with some reserve, humbly, with dignity. Neither of them are turned to the bowl, they look mutually. Silently. The important is what takes place over the bowl: the relation, the friendship, the meeting. The gesture of sharing is more important than the shared thing. The one who looks does not give only what is in the bowl, she gives itself herself. The one who receives does not receive only the gift, but also the other one. In such a relation, to receive is not humiliating, because the one who receives pleases the one who gives. Let us look again at the drawing. Are we sure that the person who looks is the one of left? Maybe the bowl is empty and it is the right person who deposits there modestly her contribution. She looks with a certain restraint, respectfully. This possibility of inverting the roles illustrates the deep sense of the sharing: each of us can give, each can receive. Every meeting should be made "look" and "receive". The one who limits only to want to set is selfish. The one who always wants to look does not really share, he tries to dominate. It is an art to look without hurting. It is an art to receive without degrading itself. Only the one who knows his own poverty, its own weakness can look without humbling: only the one who is conscious of his own dignity can receive without being bruised. In the true sharing, as well the one who gives that the one who receives grow in happiness and in dignity. That is the nobility of sharing.
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DYNAMIC MENU Welcome Photographies communities of Africa Photographies G.A. in Brussels A Gift ? Local Events some exemples Communities of Africa Actualities Nobility of sharing Articles et courriers C.A. et Relais Régionaux Open Window ... Our spiritual roots Return to homepage following page ...This drawing represents a statuette which is the work of a Rwandan artist. We see two women, one turned to the other one. Figures are stylized, what gives them a universal value. Here is how we can understand this drawing: the scene expresses sharing . The left woman is squatted and presents a bowl. That of the right holds out the hand with some hesitation, a little hampered. The one who holds the bowl is the one who gives, but she does not look with a haughty gesture. She makes small. She does not look of at the top, with a superiority complex. It is much rather this: " may I offer you anything? ". She looks at the other one with a certain anxiety: is she going to take? Will she be satisfied? The right figure does not set with greediness. She moves back. She receives with some reserve, humbly, with dignity. Neither of them are turned to the bowl, they look mutually. Silently. The important is what takes place over the bowl: the relation, the friendship, the meeting. The gesture of sharing is more important than the shared thing. The one who looks does not give only what is in the bowl, she gives itself herself. The one who receives does not receive only the gift, but also the other one. In such a relation, to receive is not humiliating, because the one who receives pleases the one who gives. Let us look again at the drawing. Are we sure that the person who looks is the one of left? Maybe the bowl is empty and it is the right person who deposits there modestly her contribution. She looks with a certain restraint, respectfully. This possibility of inverting the roles illustrates the deep sense of the sharing: each of us can give, each can receive. Every meeting should be made "look" and "receive". The one who limits only to want to set is selfish. The one who always wants to look does not really share, he tries to dominate. It is an art to look without hurting. It is an art to receive without degrading itself. Only the one who knows his own poverty, its own weakness can look without humbling: only the one who is conscious of his own dignity can receive without being bruised. In the true sharing, as well the one who gives that the one who receives grow in happiness and in dignity. That is the nobility of sharing.
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