What does service to self or others mean?

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Remember that 100% Service to Self is a prerequisite for Service to Others.


How can you be a full light unto others if you have not passed all the way through your shadow and maintained self love?

How can you love others fully without fully loving yourself?

It takes a ridiculous amount of self love to pass through the entirety of your shadow, and that shadow is just the perfect pointer for the refinement of self-love.

I don't believe people should even toy with the concept of Service to others as an idea in their mind if they don't fully understand Service to Self.

The concept of serving others should come after serving the self is consistently maintained. You always come first! And your light will always shine for others!

People are confusing the phrases "service to others" and "service to self" as defined by Ra, because people are using the phrases literally instead of studying how Ra describes them. 100% service to others is not actually literally 100% serving other beings but not yourself 24/7.

A better way to approach service to others is to understand the description of Ra and realize that service to others and service to self are configurations of love, and that service to others is unconditional love - all energy centers active and balanced (orange ray center governs self-love) - loving everything in the universe, including yourself. Service to self is self-only love - a conditional form of love involving a configuration with a nearly completely closed green and closed blue. If you describe service to others as only loving others and not the self, you are by definition are talking about conditional love -where the condition is loving anyone but yourself. Or to put another way, you're describing an energy configuration that has a nearly closed orange ray - which neither STO or STS go for. Thats why STO isn't literally serving others to exclusion of yourself, because that is a conditional form of love - STO is more properly understood as serving and loving all unconditionally.


This link is a good start if you want to understand STO and STS definitions as Ra defines them without just taking the phrases "service to others" and "service to self" as literal phrases. They're labels, with specific meanings, not three word phrases that fully describe the philosophy - they are short-hand. http://www.lawofone.info/results.php?c=The+Two+Paths