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We help ourselves, not the world

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

I remember being told that in order to progress spiritually, we need to become Selfish. Selfish with a capital ’s’. The capital ’s’ changes the entire meaning of the word from a bad quality to a good one.
We all know what selfishness with the small ’s’ means and I’m sure at some point in our [...]

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The joy of service

Monday, March 30, 2009

I read a book (Mother Teresa: In My Own Words) where Mother Teresa, an Albanian Catholic nun who served for many years as a devoted humanitarian in Calcutta, India, recalled a story about an impoverished Hindu family. Dedicated to serving the poor in Calcutta, she brought this family — a mother, a father, and several [...]

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The world is like a dog’s curly tail

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Swami Vivekananda, in his lecture series on Karma Yoga, said:
“This world is like a dog’s curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it curls up again.”
For the longest time, this quote really bothered me — how could anyone, especially a saintly [...]

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