posted September 28, 2007 07:36 AM         

"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

posted September 29, 2007 03:33 PM         

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

Why you ask BrightStar???

posted September 29, 2007 03:40 PM         

quote:

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

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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"~

posted September 30, 2007 01:03 AM         

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.

posted September 30, 2007 10:18 PM         

Do
Unto
Terrific
You!

Dance
Until
Truly
Yours-elf (or) Young

posted October 01, 2007 12:07 AM         

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.