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AUSTIN KLEON is a writer who draws. Barking up the wrong tree - Just the interesting stuff. Brain Pickings. 04 MARCH, 2013By: Maria Popova “When we really see each other, we want to help each other.”

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“It would be a terrible calamity,” Henry Miller wrote in his meditation on the beautiful osmosis between giving and receiving, “for the world if we eliminated the beggar. The beggar is just as important in the scheme of things as the giver. If begging were ever eliminated God help us if there should no longer be a need to appeal to some other human being, to make him give of his riches.” And yet, we live in a culture that perpetuates the false perception of a certain power dynamic between giver and receiver, and — worse yet — stigmatizes the very act of asking as undignified.

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