From a spiritual point of view, the consciousness is wired to serve.
So, water is wet, right? That's its constitution, that's what it is.
The role of fire is that it's heating, that it's warming. The role of ice is that
it's cooling. The role of consciousness is that it serves. Like, that
is what it equates to. Consciousness equals service, and I think that we don't
think of that. We think consciousness equals happiness. We think consciousness
equals peace. We think consciousness equals enlightenment.
But actually, all those things are just too hard to understand,
and they're seeing today that people, actually, who search for happiness are
more unhappy, because actually, the search for purpose and meaning is what leads
to the search for happiness. The search for gratitude is what leads to happiness.
So, the part that's missing is service, and they did loads of studies and research
and found that the people that were serving people every week were happier
than those people who didn't, even if they were just helping someone elderly in their
building, even if they were just helping someone across the street.
People who did basic, nice things for people were happier, even those
people with depression. This study focused on people who were actually depressed
and going through depression, but those people were asked to help someone once a
week, they felt more happy than people who were just depressed. So, service is just
so intrinsically connected to our being, but we never talk about it,
and it's never really something that comes out in conversation.
When you make money it feels good. Like, I feel good when I make money,
but I feel better when someone writes me a long note saying I changed their life.
I mean, that's just obvious, right? It's like... I'm sure if anyone watching has
had that experience where you make money, you feel good. Payday,
it feels good, but if someone writes you a long letter of gratitude saying how you
changed their life, come on, you're going to keep that forever.
If you got $100 bill, you don't keep that $100 bill. You'll spend it,
but if someone writes you a letter, you'll keep that letter for the rest of your
life, and that's because gratitude is valued more than money.