Open Your Doors > A room becomes stuffy and uninviting when its doors and windows are > rarely opened. Because it remains closed, the air within it turns > stale. Something similar happens to people when they become closed in > upon themselves. Their excessive self-preoccupation causes inner > stagnancy. It destroys their freshness of spirit. > People who open the doors of their lives to the presence and needs of > others are able to experience life with a fresh perspective. Their > consciousness is freed from being paralyzed by their own personal > concerns, and they discover a freedom that allows them to expend more > energy in the service of others. As their self-preoccupation > diminishes, they have the freshness of mind to deal more effectively > with the personal problems that life invariably presents. > Lord, may I come to see today that I'm surrounded by people whose > needs are far greater than my own. I want to avoid the inner stagnancy > that comes from my lack of concern for others. May I come to know a > freshness of spirit that grows from the giving of myself. > >
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