If people knew, as I know, the result of giving and sharing, they would not eat a meal without having shared it, nor would they allow the stain of meanness to obsess them and take root in their minds.
Even if it were their last mouthful, they would not eat a meal without having shared it, if there were someone to share it with.
But because people do not know, as I know, the result of giving and sharing, they eat without having given, and the stain of meanness obsesses them and takes root in their minds.
The Buddha (Itivutaka 26)
Contributed by Mike