Giving, Receiving and Valuing from The Course In Miracles

     
     If paying is equated with getting, you will set the price low but demand a high return.  You will have forgotten, however, that to price is to value, so that your return is in proportion to our judgment of worth.  If paying is associated with giving it cannot be perceived as a loss, and the reciprocal relationship of giving and receiving will be recognized. The price for getting is to lose sight of value, making it inevitable that you will not value what you receive.  Valuing it little, you will not appreciate it and you will not want it.
     Never forget, then, that as you set the value on what you receive, and price it by what you give.  To believe that it is possible to get much for little is to believe that you can bargain with God. God’s laws are always fair and perfectly consistent. By giving you receive.  
                
                A Course In Miracles, III. The Answer to Prayer, 10-11