Definition of love

[Anders]

To serve others is to serve yourself.  To serve yourself is to serve others.  We are all one, you cannot do for one and not do for another or yourself.  In the book mentioned above, this is part of the teachings.  There seems to be separation and that one way is good and another is wrong.  The Confederation serves humanity which in turn serves them as well.  The Creator loves all humans equally, no matter what we do or do not do.  Realize it is hard to comprehend but it is freedom when we realize all are equal in the heart of the Creator.  This does not mean that hurting others is acceptable but they are still loved and are love.

More thoughts to add to your great thread Anders.

Ra says something similar, for example in 18.13: "All serve the One Creator. There is nothing else to serve, for the Creator is all that there is. It is impossible not to serve the Creator. There are simply various distortions of this service."

So one way of looking at it is that service-to-self is a worse distortion than service-to-others, and the less distortion the larger wholeness in harmony.