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Page 2 of 2 What do we get? The answers are probably as varied as the people who serve. For many it is as simple as the money, but it is very rarely just that. It is much more likely the recognition we receive; when our friends and colleagues clap us on the back and congratulate us on a job well done. Or our fulfillment may come through our clients ‘apparent’ recoveries and life changes. We get to feel deeply when we witness a heart filled with pain; we are enriched when we feel those pains apparently dissolve and that life find new strength. But in truth what we are feeling is ours. We can’t really feel their pain. We can feel sympathy or empathy from our own experiences, so the feelings would then be our own healing. We receive our own healing through helping. But what if we really can feel another person’s pain? Then it would naturally follow that we really are connected on some fundamental level. In which case as we heal and help those other people we are really healing and helping ourselves. In all cases it is what we receive that ultimately dictates our actions. So when we are giving, when we are being of service let us remember that we are really acting very selfishly; it is not really about them except to the degree that it is about us. And whether we are down there on the streets or up there in the corporate suites, to the degree that we are following and living our passion having a transcendent picture of the implications of our work in the world, we are being of service. All of this means that other people are exactly where they are for our own greatest good. Ultimately it doesn’t matter what they think, what they believe or how they live except that with open minds we are able to grow by our relationship with them. All that ultimately matters is that we have feelings, that we recognize the root causes of those feelings which come alive in our relating with those people we serve and that we be willing to embrace and grow through those feelings. In so doing we truly will transform the world one heart at a time. 
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