The DAILY GURU...Daily Spiritual Guidance

"Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others."
-- Eknath Easwaran

Holding an intention to be in service shapes our overall attitude towards life in many ways.
For example, it brings a greater sensitivity and awareness of others, a commitment to harmlessness, a willingness to put others' needs before our own and a desire to be in harmony with all.

An attitude of service also involves a willingness to be served when we truly need support.

". There is no such thing as just existing. Everything is in service to everything else. Existence is giving and receiving. A stone gives and receives no less than a saint."

-- Jacob Needleman

Sunday 10th Of April 2005

"A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. He does not really seek happiness, rather, he seeks for a condition which matches his personal idea regarding the nature of happiness.
But happiness is not a mere idea, for one idea will always have competition from another idea. That is why the unhappy man chases for ever from one attraction to another.Happiness will come when he stops chasing, that is, when he stops thinking that an idea about happiness is the same as happiness.
A man enjoying the sunshine does so without analyzing it."....VERNON HOWARD