By Gonny 
Imagine you are holding a delicious, shiny red apple. 
If you hand that apple to someone else, your hands are now empty.
You have no apple, and they have one. This is the simple, hard math of the physical world. It is a world of subtraction and division.
But we often make a funny, exhausting mistake.
We take this physical “apple math” and we try to apply it to our inner
world……to our feelings, our love, and our forgiveness.
There is a quiet, beautiful idea that turns this completely upside down:
‘To give and to receive are one in truth.’
When it comes to the mind, you aren’t trading apples. You are playing music. If you compose a beautiful melody and play it for someone else, you don’t suddenly lose the song. Your mind doesn’t go blank. In fact, the moment you play it for them, the room fills with music, and you get to hear it, too. The song actually becomes louder, richer, and more real for you simply because you extended it.
This is the secret of how the mind actually works. Thoughts and feelings are not physical objects that can be depleted. Whatever you send out, you get to keep.
Sometimes a nervous little voice inside (the ego) whispers that we need to be careful and hold back. It tells us that our peace is a limited resource,
that if we forgive someone too quickly, we are leaving ourselves unprotected. It sees the world as a room full of separate people, all nervously guarding their own little stash of apples.
But what if there aren’t many separate minds at all?
Think of the ocean. On the surface, there seem to be millions of separate, individual waves, crashing and rolling on their own. But underneath the surface, it is all just one vast, connected body of water. When one wave pushes water toward another, absolutely nothing is lost. It is all just the ocean, flowing within itself.
Because we share one mind, the other person is quite literally part of your own ocean. When you quietly offer peace to someone else, you are the very first one to feel the warmth of that peace.
But when you silently hold a grievance, you are the one carrying the heavy stone.
You become the environment of whatever you choose to give.
You don’t need to overthink this or turn it into a complicated spiritual project. It is just a gentle law of nature, as reliable as gravity.
Whenever you want to feel a little more love, a little more safety, or a little more peace, you don’t have to go searching for it in the outside world.
You don’t have to wait for someone to hand you an apple. You just have to sing the song… and listen as it echoes through your own mind. 
With love and light,
G