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Solane Star
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posted September 28, 2007 07:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Solane Star     Edit/Delete Message
Be aware of duty

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart."

-- Pearl S. Buck

Many of us have been taught to do our duty. What does this imply to you? For me, ‘doing my duty’ means doing something I really don’t want to do. My heart’s not in it, and so the energy for the act isn’t there. I have to force every move. Usually, there’s underlying resentment. When this is the scenario, tasks may get done but there’s no gift to the world.

We do not truly serve the world if we give to others but neglect our own truth and our own needs. We need to give to ourselves as we give to others. IT’S NOT SELFISH TO LOOK AFTER OURSELVES -- IT’S ESSENTIAL!

"Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse."

-- Dale Dauten

"Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things."

-- Albert Einstein

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BrightStar
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posted September 29, 2007 01:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for BrightStar     Edit/Delete Message
Hi Solane Star.Can i ask you a question. Are you happy with your life and with the poeple in your life right now ?

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Solane Star
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posted September 29, 2007 03:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Solane Star     Edit/Delete Message
BrightStar, I'm very Happy with my life right now!!!

And as far as others go, I have really caring, supportive, friends and family!!!

Why you ask BrightStar???

Thanks!!!

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juniperb
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posted September 29, 2007 03:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message
quote:
"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart."

Just like a flowers joyfull service to Creator and mankind....

I`ve never seem a flower frown or complain so it must be true !

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

- George Eliot

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BrightStar
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posted September 30, 2007 01:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for BrightStar     Edit/Delete Message

Oh i just thought you were not happy,but i see that you are happy so that is good.I would have been sad if it was the other way around.


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Solane Star
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posted September 30, 2007 07:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Solane Star     Edit/Delete Message
ME TOO, BrightStar!!!

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Skyhawk
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posted September 30, 2007 10:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Skyhawk     Edit/Delete Message
I tried to Lexigram DUTY. It stands alone! I personally believe our duty should be to ourselves first. The rest will fall into place. If I AM love and LIVE love, I can only GIVE love. So anything I give will be a joy. Maybe we can rewrite the dictionary's definition!

Do
Unto
Terrific
You!

Dance
Until
Truly
Yours-elf (or) Young

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Solane Star
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posted September 30, 2007 10:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Solane Star     Edit/Delete Message

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Dervish
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posted October 01, 2007 12:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dervish     Edit/Delete Message
How can you be happy if you do what you do when your heart isn't in it?

Me, I'd be miserable. If I were to "do my duty" and kill people though my heart wasn't into it, for example, I wouldn't be able to stand it.


Natch, you might be using words very differently from how I use them. For example, I often clean up broken glass on the street, when I saw a nail sticking out at a gazebo in the park I went home and came back with a hammer to make sure it wouldn't stick anyone. I've stopped a buggy from crashing into a SUV, though I don't like SUVs (primarily from my experience getting around on a bike). I've acted as a library volunteer though I shouldn't have.

You may say the above is doing my duty, but the way I see it, my heart is into it. It's my head that tells me to leave it alone.

To me, duty is more like honor and the like. It's my duty to help my friends and not betray them, for example. At the same time, I only carry this duty as long as they carry out their duty to me (ie, they treat me right and honorably, too). Otherwise, it's not carrying out my duty but allowing myself to be exploited.

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Skyhawk
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posted October 02, 2007 01:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Skyhawk     Edit/Delete Message
Beautiful picture, Solane Star. Thanx.


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