Our duty to others means helping others; doing good to the world. Why should we do good to the world? Apparently to help the world, but really to helpourselves. ….. Do not stand on a high pedestal and take five cents in your hand and say, ‘Here, my poor man,’ but be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him, you are able to help yourself. It is not the receiver that is blessed, but it is the giver. Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.
One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. ….. I have always been learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of success is there: to pay as much attention to the means as to the end. CW II 1
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