 Yeah, service is something like when people think of spirituality Many traditions like mother Teresa sometimes comes to mind when people think of a genuine authentic service and I think it's it's kind of like a Stepping stone idea in the sense that The mind is kind of addicted and stuck in this ego centric mode Where everything is you know me myself and I in a small eye sense, you know look out for number one You know Always watch out for number one the number one being the personality self That service can be a mechanism that And a metaphor that the Holy Spirit uses to kind of pop the mind Listen to mine from this very ego centric Perspective of doing everything for one's own personal self and Underneath that of course is the belief that I can create myself That I can make myself and the way that I want to be and I can remake myself And I can reinvent myself. You know, there's a lot of spirituality to talk about reinventing yourself There's even new age philosophies. I remember I going into a new age store and and Reading a magazine and it said to create your own reality right on the front cover and The people say yeah, the course is new age like that. You can create your own reality. That's more like the secret It's more like you can Can invent your own illusion is a better Reinterpretation of create your own reality is just invent your own illusion which really doesn't make you happy To invent and reinvent Illusions because illusions are false. It's just like playing around tinkering around with the false so in one sense this sense of service can be a very helpful step and It's more of a backdrop though for Watching your mind for getting out of Just thinking everything in terms of how can I benefit the personality self? because the ego can is Metaphor along the journey the ego can jump in there with this service idea and run with that too and Wow, you talk about burnout Be a kid into burnout in a big way when you get into the you know Nothing nothing greater than you know laying down your life to serve others and this and this and this You can seem to be so other directed that you just totally burn out And it's no wonder why people that get into like social services You know they get in for wonderful reasons, you know, they get in to be helpful Kind of altruistic real loving reasons and then the ego is like a spider sitting back there Going for the old service one here I can twist this one around then Burn you out and get you disillusioned in a hurry and so there starts to come a point on the spiritual journey where you start to Train your mind to see that everything is is thought and that really the service you're doing is learning how to forgive and release release attack thoughts from consciousness Now that's service That's really getting into service. That's lesson 23 of the Course in Miracles workbook. I can escape From the world I see by giving up attack thoughts It's almost like the culmination of those first 22 lessons Just giving you a here's where you're going for this is your ultimate service and In that sense people had said to me, you know, if it is about service, then Then you see someone like Mother Teresa who was known for you know Serving and she said it was here to serve the force before and you have somebody like we'll say like a Yogi or a meditator who seems to be just sitting on his bum the whole time And it would seem like from the service model. It's like get out of your cave and save somebody Feed somebody help somebody you could see from the form when you try to gauge and judge the service You can't really do that, you know Jesus has a section in this course where he calls it you know, I need to do nothing and He's actually saying in there that you really want to show your loyalty loyalty to me and escape thousands of years of struggle Just do this one thing for me And it's I need to do nothing, you know, it's really practice this Of course there are those that try to practice that and go this isn't so easy The practice I need to do nothing. That's pretty high High form of thing and then he says in there, you know from this point of stillness and silence You will be sent on many busy doings Let's go. Oh great. You're gonna be loyal and and do nothing and then I get sent on many busy doings But it's it's just kind of getting lined up and yielding into that purpose So that you get into this state of mind where you see that miracles are involuntary that you can't control and direct the miracle and neither can you judge this sense of service in terms of form because true service is really an Alignment in purpose. That's what the service is