By Steve Beckow, Golden Age of Gaia, Augugst 17, 2015
If you were to ask me which is preferable – service to self or service to others – I’d have to think for a sec.
There’s a certain amount of service to self that has to go on for us to be able to serve others.
We have to love ourselves before we can love others.
We have to respect ourselves before we can respect others.
We have to tend to ourselves financially before we can tend to others.
So there’s no clear-cut distinction.
Usually by ‘self,” people mean the ego, the mind, the 3D consciousness. If we only serve that, that’s when we miss out on the richness of the experience of serving others.
It isn’t an either/or situation. It’s more the percentage that matters. One-hundred percent service of self won’t lead to a rich experience of life. One-hundred percent service to others also carries a penalty.
But we can collapse the two and sidestep the difficulty if we serve the One Self, the One Love in all.
Busy people may want to simplify as much as possible. If they do, in this area, I’d recommend that they serve the One Self, the One Love in all. One-hundred percent.
Openhearted Rebellion 
It is rather difficult for Westerners to understand what it really means “To Serve Others”, since it is diagonally opposed to the ‘individualistic’ Western mental programming. In the Eastern Philosophy we know of the Wu Wei principle, the Action of Non-Action which is considered as the highest form of virtue in Taoism. It is the realisation of one as part of the whole.
Consider the community of 50 trillions cells of our body that work in total harmony. There are only 7 billions of us and it seems so impossible to coordinate our actions towards a harmonious humanity. Bruce Lipton’s dream of spontaneous human evolution still seems so far away.
Another little (Western) example is the famous saying of JFK: “Ask not what your country (humanity/the world) can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country (humanity/the world)
In verse 38 of the Daode Jing (translated here by Jonathan Star), Laozi tells us:
The highest virtue is to act without a sense of self
The highest kindness is to give without a condition
The highest justice is to see without a preference
When Tao is lost one must learn the rules of virtue
When virtue is lost, the rules of kindness
When kindness is lost, the rules of justice
When justice is lost, the rules of conduct
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