In his teachings on ethics, the Greek philosopher Aristotle coined the phrase “the good life” – it’s a term that stands for the life one would like the live and the happiness one would derive from that life. So, what IS the good life, would you say? What is the kind of life that will make you HAPPY? That will lead us to feel CONTENT? 
Seems to me, there are two very different ways of answering that question. Two different paths toward the good life, toward the happiness we seek. One way toward the good life, some would say, is to GET MORE. Get more money, get more stuff, get more happiness. This is the GET MORE plan. Find happiness, achieve contentedness by making as much as you can and keeping as much as you make. Don’t give any of it away, because the more you give, the less you have. The less you give, the more you have. And then you will be happy.  You’ll be living the good life. That’s the message most of us are buying. That’s the life that most of us in America are living. 
But there’s another way to get the good life. A more counterintuitive way toward contentment. One way is to GET more. But the other is to GIVE MORE.
2 Corinthians 8:1-9
1. Smith, Christian The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose

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