A retired doctor came to a village where people were suffering with various
diseases. He went to the city and bought hundreds of dollars worth of medicine
and began to take care of them. On Sundays, he gave lectures to them on various
health issues. One day an old lady asked him, “Why don’t you go rest in your
home and enjoy yourself? You are working too hard in the village and you are not
making a single cent.” “You are mistaken,” the doctor replied. “I cannot stay
here and remain healthy if I do not educate these people and heal them.”
Even if we serve people for our own interest, it is beneficial. Only by
serving people can we eventually learn to forget ourselves in the performance of
service.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Stories, p.109
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