1986.20.07 The nature of service to others

[Matt1]

"The nature of service to others is such that you will find again and again that you have nothing to offer except your very being. And yet, my friends, if you will investigate the nature of the one original Thought, you will discover that your consciousness, your attention, your sympathy, your compassion, your attempt to understand, is the most precious service you can offer."

This would suggest that the honest opening of the heart to another self is the nature of service to others. How do you open your self to the other self?

[AnthroHeart]

I always love just being.

[Ankh]

"The nature of service to others is such that you will find again and again that you have nothing to offer except your very being. And yet, my friends, if you will investigate the nature of the one original Thought, you will discover that your consciousness, your attention, your sympathy, your compassion, your attempt to understand, is the most precious service you can offer."

This would suggest that the honest opening of the heart to another self is the nature of service to others. How do you open your self to the other self?

This was a great Q'uote! I also noticed it today. 

Ra spoke of it too, and how to open your self to another self:

"The best way of service to others is the constant attempt to seek to share the love of the Creator as it is known to the inner self. This involves self knowledge and the ability to open the self to the other-self without hesitation. This involves, shall we say, radiating that which is the essence or the heart of the mind/body/spirit complex.


Speaking to the intention of your question, the best way for each seeker in third density to be of service to others is unique to that mind/body/spirit complex. This means that the mind/body/spirit complex must then seek within itself the intelligence of its own discernment as to the way it may best serve other-selves. This will be different for each. There is no best. There is no generalization. Nothing is known."


Personally I find it very difficult to open myself to everyone without hesitation. Most of the times I consider first whether it is a wise choice. But it does happen that I open myself up out of compassion, and then consider whether it was wise or not, and sometimes it happens that I regret myself! Such are lessons of love I guess. 

[Minyatur]

I let people come open myself to them.

[rva_jeremy]

This would suggest that the honest opening of the heart to another self is the nature of service to others. How do you open your self to the other self?

At this juncture in my journey, I find that giving attention to another is one of the best services I can provide. I have a sort of elitist tendency to disregard those who seem to not be very sophisticated or interesting, but if I think of giving my attention to them as a service--and energetic transfer, even--I find it is almost always rewarding. I have often been around people in my life who seem to be energy sinks or "attention hogs", who seem to need so much of my presence that it makes me feel small and periphery. Flooding them with attention and engaging them is sometimes the best way to relate to people who need to be at the center.

Another dynamic that comes to mind is that of the guy or gal who won't stop talking. I've been in several new age, spiritual, or political meetings where there's an introductory circle, and you usually have at least one person who seems to just gush. Truthfully, it interrupts the flow of the conversation, the back-and-forth that makes the energy move. But I realized eventually that these people feel incredibly lonely, unvalidated, and stifled, so once they are welcomed they kind of have a lot of backed up stuff to get out. The best way to help them is to accept them as they are, realizing that the meeting is a tool for precisely this kind of healing, and that one's fleeting interest in the meeting is of much less importance!

[Jade]

Carlos (B61zz13) shared this Q'uo quote in his blog the other day, I liked it a lot and think it's the same thing:

"To open yourself in love to those who are disharmonious seems to be an act of folly, and yet let us look at flowers. They open their faces in love to the sun which offers them the light of its countenance and the love of its radiation, and yet they do not withhold their perfume from any being. There is no judgment upon the part of [a] flower as to who shall receive its gifts of beauty."