If you want to leave the world better than you found it, then use your heart of compassion and your life of concern.
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?
“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done”.
