{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Perennial Meditations","title":"St. Francis and the open hand | Perennial Meditations","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":242,"description":"📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe\n\n“It is in giving that we receive.” \n— St. Francis of Assisi\n\nThis sounds like a pleasantry, but it is actually a provocation.\n\nMost of us are wired to assume that receiving comes first, that we give from surplus, and that generosity is what happens after our own needs have been sufficiently met. Put plainly, we will be more generous when we have more. \n\nWe will give more time when we have more of it. We will open our hands when we feel secure enough to let go.\n\nSt. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar who gave away everything he owned, including the clothes on his back, lived as though this logic were exactly backward. He did not give because he had enough. He gave because giving was the only way to discover what enough actually meant. The open hand, he found, receives differently than the closed one. Not necessarily more, but more freely. [...]\n#philosophy #spirituality #catholicsaints #podcast\n\n---\n \n 🖇️ Stay Connected: \nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations\n---\n \n🦉 Additional Resources: \nPerennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archive\nListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts\n---\n📌 Chapter Markers:\n0:00 Introduction \n0:25 Quote \n0:35 Meditation \n2:35 Practice \n3:00 Closing","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/S9nkr-A73R2aawPu1a8VCgtIH30UnQCenCk2Bl1jeUU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYTJl/MDY5YTc3YzI1ZDI4/YTk4N2I5MTkwZDA0/NjBkMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}