We must always be prepared to cast aside our own agendas whenever we have the opportunity to be of service to another. And when we act for another’s interests we must do so cheerfully, without thought of recognition or reward.

Putting ourselves at the center of existence isolates us. We are relational, dependent creatures, and we are not the purpose of the cosmos.

These are the opportunities for right relationship: To form a loving image of our God, and To love our true God, with all our hearts, with all our minds, and with all our strength, and To love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves.

Let no one presume that we are more than passing shadows, created from we know not what, for a purpose we cannot understand.

“Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and in action” (1 John 3:18). “The word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14).

We may not use the name “God.” We may think in terms of Reality, Nature, The First Cause, The Behavior of the World, The Other, The All, The Ground of Being, The Force of Evolution, The Life Spirit, or Things As They Really Are. Each of us creates an image of the supreme mystery that feeds us, and we are always in a relationship with it.

At all times let us recall that every thing we use in this life was here before us and will be here after we are gone. This world and everything in it is on loan, entrusted to our care for our time.

We should share in labor and take turns in service. As a task is handed from one to another, approval and thanks should also be passed from one to another, so that good will and blessings are distributed with the work.

The only genuinely wealthy are those who are satisfied with what they have.