Service keeps us sober It helps our heart to shine Like chestnuts in October

Peel off the selfish rind

If we do work for others

We find that in no time Good purpose is uncovered

As we deflate our egos

And put another first Self-seeking is torpedoed We quench that inner thirst

Yes service keeps us sober

Humility it breeds The power to recover In serving others needs.

“As our self-interest diminishes,

our anxieties disappear, and then comes quiet and firm joy, which always diffuses us with a good spiritual disposition

and a clear conscience. Every good deed helps to kindle this feeling of joy within us.

The egoist feels lonely, surrounded by threatening and alien events; all his desires are sunk in his own concerns. A kind person lives in a world of beneficent events,

whose goodness matches his own.”