To Serve Others, Serve Your Soul

I meet so many people who feel that to be spiritual means to serve and help others. In a sense, this is true: we are all meant to be of service to others. But for many people, they can only see themselves helping others as a form of approval-seeking or to avoid taking care of themselves. They are stuck in a pattern of self-denial and self-abnegation. They never take care of their own needs, whether emotional or physical. And then they get burned out, annoyed or exasperated because no one ackn...