Serving

The destiny of men has to fulfill itself in a thousand ways, so that goodness may be actualized. What every individual has to contribute remains his own secret.

To progress, society doesn’t need ‘leaders’ anymore… When we will all see our role in society as servants, we will all light up the sky together like countless stars on a dark night.

I believe that we don’t need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here—to love and to serve.

Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve… You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

As we cultivate mindfulness, we begin to see the interconnectedness of all life, and the ways our actions can bring either harm or benefit to ourselves and others.

The reward for doing any act of service, no matter how small, is the inner transformation that you may experience right then and there.

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

The spiritually blind imagine things that only increase their suffering; the fancies of selflessness are what come to the eye of visionaries.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times…

Service has a life of its own. A single act of kindness may have a long trajectory and touch those we will never meet or see.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Living for the sake of others is the universal principle that defines the way we should live our lives—the one law of the true way of life.

Unlike material possessions, goodness is not diminished when it is shared … with others, but expands and, in fact, the more heartily each of the lovers of goodness enjoys the possession the more does goodness grow.

A particular strength of servant-leadership is that it encourages everyone to actively seek opportunities to both serve and lead others…

If our intent is to serve, to bless others, without self-concern, a by-product of our service comes within—a kind of psychological, emotional, and spiritual reward in the form of internal security and peace.