“I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.”
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Source: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Autobiography), Introduction, 1927.
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The road to something sacred runs through serving others, not away from them. And the truest work is often the one that arrives unbidden and happens to fit your gifts — you needn't manufacture a grand calling, only take up the useful thing in front of you that you're suited for.
When to use it
- A nurse who finds meaning less in ritual than in the daily, ordinary care of patients.
- A retiree who falls into tutoring neighborhood kids and discovers it's exactly his knack.
- A volunteer who stops hunting for a mission and commits to the food bank already short-handed.