Are we to serve endlessly?

[Merrick]

The best I can find in terms of quotes or scripture, heh, is the reference that its 51%selfless which requires the same amount of effort as 95% selfish.

The way I see it one should always consider how every action affects the self and the other self and aim for a 50-50 split instead of "being good", hope someone else can find specific quotes.

Ah, I always took that to mean one needs to be no more than 51% selfless/STO instead of the STS path which requires a much higher degree of selfishness. The way I understood it, STO is the more forgiving path but still requires quite a bit of selflessness (how many people are acting selflessly slightly more than half the time whenever they take an action?) whereas STS requires almost full devotion to selfishness and if one does horrible things but thinks it’s for good reasons, and isn’t from a STS motive, that entity won’t graduate to 4D negative (see Ra’s comments about Hitler being in healing as opposed to Genghis Khan or Rasputin who graduated 4D negative). I hadn’t considered it may have meant try to balance the self and other in every action, I think that would be quite difficult for third density minds.