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Love's Way

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An Invitation - Try Love's Way - The Greatest Thing in the World - Making Life a Song - The Dream of Brotherhood - Driving Away What We Long For Most - Employers and Employers - Spite Fences - Work and Happiness - Practising Love's Way - Training the Child - How to Lighten Your Words - Survival Value - The Miracle Worker - Our Little Brothers and Sisters - The Thing That Makes a Home - "Stranger, Why Should I NOT Speak to you?" - "I Serve the Strongest" - The Daily Orientation - Scatter Your Flowers As You Go - Love Letters From God - The Harmony Bath - Heroism at Home - What the Bee Teaches Us - Love's Way and Christmas Giving - Contents -

The man who does useful work is in direct communication with other people—he works for others, and the thought that he is doing something for somebody sustains him."

This tying together of human beings so that they cannot get their fullest power alone is one of the wisest provisions of nature for the defeat of selfishness, the greatest foe of human development.

We have seen that when the bee does not work for the common good it is put out of the way. In human society, we don't put the selfish units to death, but their selfishness brings its own punishment, just as the broad generous spirit brings its own reward. For the more a man helps others, the more closely he touches other lives, the more he expands and grows, the more love and power comes back to him, while the selfish man, who secludes himself from others, who has no sympathy for his neighbors, who tries to get everything for him self, and gives as little as possible, is constantly shrinking and narrowing his boundaries. He is robbing himself of power when he thinks he is acquiring it. In the long run, selfishness defeats its object.

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