Desire inspires exchange. It is the power of economy. And it is a motive with the power to purify our giving and getting from all attachment to what is given and gotten. We always want more but what is it that we really want more of? Stuff? Pleasure? Power? Perhaps, instead, we want more sacrifice. Maybe, we desire to elicit an even greater offering – an even more intense delight of parting and surrender – from our partners. But why? Simply to squeeze more out of them and keep more for ourselves? Perhaps we would elicit from our partners an even greater demand from us – a stretching of our own sacrificial capacity in response to their own desire for more, for better. But more or better of what? Simply to extract more from us in order to enrich themselves? Why not that their desire to bear fruit in our lives should be more and more fully realized? And how? Perhaps by eliciting in us a more total release from the fruit of our action by releasing them more completely from the fruit of theirs. As we grow together through our exchanges with one another, we practice – with ever greater intensity – this work of parting, which teaches us detachment from the outcome of all our exchanges.