Charity: It consists in abolishing the egocentric distinction between “me” and the “other”: it is seeing the “I” in the “other” and the “other” in the “I.” [GTUFS: LSelf, A View of Yoga]
Charity with regard to our neighbor, when it is the act of a direct consciousness and not just of a moral sentiment, implies seeing ourselves in the other and the other in ourselves; the scission between ego and alter must be overcome, that the cleavage between Heaven and earth may be healed. [GTUFS: GnosisDW, The Christian Tradition, Some Thoughts on its Nature]
Charity means to lose oneself. [GTUFS: SPHF, The Spiritual Virtues]
The word “charity” signifies goodness that makes itself known, goodness in action. Theologically, by charity is meant the love of God and neighbor; in ordinary language, the word charity, considered in isolation, means beneficial action in relation to those who need it; but in certain contexts, this word also means: to be considerate of others’ feelings. Thus it is commonly said: “Out of charity, do not tell him that, it could make him sad,” or: “Be good enough to please him in this way”; all of which has nothing to do with caring for the sick or with giving alms. [GTUFS: PlayMasks, Remarks on Charity]
Charity is to freely, and really, help those who need and deserve it. [GTUFS: PlayMasks, Remarks on Charity]
Charity starts from the truth that my neighbor is not other than myself, since he is endowed with an ego; that in the sight of God he is neither more nor less ‘I’ than I am myself; that what is given to ‘another’ is given to ‘myself’; that my neighbor is also made in the image of God; that he carries within him the potentiality of the Divine presence and that this potentiality must be revered in him; and that the good which is done to our neighbor purifies us from egoistic illusion and virtually frees us from it when it is done for God’s sake. [GTUFS: SPHF, Thought and Civilization]
The supreme Law is the perfect love of God – a love that must engage our whole being, as the Scripture says – and the second Law, that of love of the neighbor, is “like unto” the first. Now “like unto” does not mean “equivalent to”, and still less “superior to”, but “of the same spirit”; Christ means that the love of God manifests itself extrinsically by love of the neighbor, wherever there is a neighbor; that is to say that we cannot love God while hating our fellow-creatures. In conformity with our full human nature, love of the neighbor is nothing without the love of God, the one draws all its content from the other and has no meaning without it; it is true that to love the creature is also a way of loving the Creator, but on the express condition that its foundation be the direct love of God, otherwise the second Law would not be the second but the first. It is not said that the first law is “like unto” or “equal to” the second, but that the second is equal to the first, and this signifies that the love of God is the necessary foundation and conditio sine qua non of all other charity. [GTUFS: LightAW, The Ancient Worlds in Perspective]

Charity (essence): Most of our contemporaries seem to forget that in true charity God is “served first,” as Joan of Arc used to say: in other words they forget that charity is, in essence, to love God more than ourselves, to love our neighbor as ourselves, thus to love ourselves, but less than God; not to love our neighbor more than ourselves, and not to feel ourselves obliged to give him what, in our opinion, we would not deserve if we were in his place. Love of God possesses an element of the absolute deriving from the divine Absoluteness, but love for the neighbor – and love for ourselves – although recalling the relationship between man and God, has a relative character deriving from human relativity; the relationship remains similar thanks to the analogy, but the mode changes with the object. [GTUFS: StationsW, Complexity of the Concept of Charity]

Charity (first act of): The first act of charity is to rid the soul of illusions and passions and thus rid the world of a maleficent being; it is to make a void so that God may fill it and, by this fullness, give Himself. A saint is a void open for the passage of God. [GTUFS: StationsW, Complexity of the Concept of Charity]

Charity (greatest): The greatest charity is the gift of that which, at bottom, we have no longer the power to give, because the prime mover of such charity is God. [GTUFS: StationsW, Complexity of the Concept of Charity]

Charity (true): True charity – we might call it “integral charity” – gives nothing without giving inwardly something better; the art of giving requires that to the material gift should be added a gift of the soul: this is to forget the gift after having given it, and this forgetfulness is like a fresh gift. Intrinsically, that virtue alone is good which is in a certain way unconscious of itself and, as a result, becomes neither “egoistic charity” nor “proud humility.” As an old proverb has it, “Do good and throw it into the sea; if the fish swallow it and men forget it, God will remember it.” [GTUFS: StationsW, Complexity of the Concept of Charity]

Charity / Duty: In charity there can be no “equal partners” since the one who helps or gives does so freely; if he does not do so freely, there is no charity. If someone collapses on the street, it is not an act of charity to help him; it is a human duty. Similarly, when someone suffers from hunger, it is a duty to feed him; but the degree of our help is a question of charity, for in this evaluation we are free. Each time there is a possible choice in the degree of our charitable intervention, there is freedom on our part and there is inequality between him who gives and him who receives; it is this which proves the duty of gratitude on the part of the latter. [GTUFS: PlayMasks, Remarks on Charity]