True Service

Greetings, dearest readers!  Have been busy care-taking my 12 year old son who is home with the flu so today's post will be a little shorter than normal.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Mohandas K. Gandhi)

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time. Service is what life is all about. (Marian Wright Edelman)

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves. (Helen Keller)

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. (Ann Radcliffe)

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. (Albert Schweitzer)

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. (Albert Einstein)

As you can see by the names of the authors of the above quotes, great men and women know the way of life is fraternal service, or social resposibility in today's terms.  What I want to talk about today is True Service.  True Service is service done from the heart not the head or ego.  It is service performed because the person doing the service LOVES humanity, LOVES living sacredly. In today's world the word sacrifice has taken on a negative meaning, wearing the mantle of lack, pain, a giving up of something so that one is left with less.  The original meaning of sacrifice was gift.  Living a life of gifting, oneself to the good of all is the most sacred way to live. 

I choose to live a life of sacrifice and True service, giving the gift of myself to the world, in all that I can be and become and in serving others from the heart.  Not from the ego or head for the brownie points I think it gets me with God/dess or other people.  True happiness and fulfillment lives in True Service.

I invite you to do the same!  Remember what it felt like when you were small and in awe of the world and how it felt to do for others??  Maybe that's what is meant by Except ye be as little children ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven........

Namaste'.