Reading Archive (Service)
Serving Is Different From Helping And Fixing
In recent years the question how can I help? has become meaningful to many people. But perhaps there is a deeper question we might...
Everything Is A Miracle
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. But...
You Were Made For This
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our...
Contemplation Vs. Social Change
Brother David: You can’t really be a contemplative, unless you also want to change the world. You want to...
Helping, Fixing, Serving
Service is not the same as helping. Helping is based on inequality, it's not a relationship between equals. When you help, you use your...
His Own Eulogy
Every now and then I guess we all think realistically about that day when we will be victimized with what is life's final common...
The Act of Giving is the True Gift
In an ancient Indian epic, Arjuna, a famed warrior questions his divine charioteer, Krishna, about the noblest giver in the land....
Believers in Small Graces
There are those who search God in the quiet places -- no churches, no public displays of piety, no dramatic or flamboyant rituals. They...
Money is a Lot Like Water
We’ve allowed this culture of money to shut down our heart, close off access to our soul, and drive us such that we behave in ways...
Serving Like The Mountain Stream
I was taught when I was a little boy that it was good to be unselfish and loving, and I used to think that I should grow up to serve...
Bridging The Spiritual and Mundane
As I now look at our situation, I distinguish three major domains in which human life participates. One I call the transcendent domain,...
An Unusual Gift From My Grandfather
Often, when he came to visit, my grandfather would bring me a present. These were never the sorts of things that other people brought,...
What Breaks Your Heart?
What breaks your heart? What does your soul long for? And, how is that connected to how you are living your life now? I love this...
A Servant Leader
To progress, society doesn't need 'leaders' anymore. This doesn't mean that we won't have great men amidst us. I think...
Serenity Prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is...
Lessons From An Accident
For the last forty years, I have been a somewhat compulsive caregiver. However, I found an appropriate niche in medical school, and have...
All We Can Do Is Share Ourselves
So many of us believe that we have to do something. We have to take action in order to make a difference in the world. We must have a...
The Sun Is The Perfect Example
The sun is the perfect example of acting without desire. When the sun rises does the idea enter its mind to say, 'I shall banish the...
Sufficiency is Not Abundance
We can learn to invest the resources that flow through our lives in a new future for all of us. We can direct those resources, whether...
The Pleasure of Serving
All of nature is a yearning for service: The cloud serves, and the wind, and the furrow. Where there is a tree to plant, you be the...