I am beginning to think our big purpose here in life, is simply to help one another. That might be our whole shebang. It seems like all the big-thinking-peace makers thought that way.

Mother Teresa once noted… “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

We belong to each other.

And it was Albert Schweitzer who said… “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

If that weren’t enough… the Dalai Lama so aptly remarked…“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

These are just a few. Yep.  Seems to me we probably could be….  should be….  helping one another.

We know…..  once we have done something with good in our hearts for someone else, selflessly, it feels good to our inner being. It just does. When something feels that good, it must be right.

But helping others can be tricky business. It doesn’t seem like it ought to be… but it is. There are times when we just don’t feel like it. Not one little iota. And there are other times when we have reached out to someone, time and again, and gotten our little noses smacked.

I am not sure how or when we differentiate, other than, learning and growing from past experiences.

I think I DO know…. that it is important to keep trying. Even Ronny Reagan was on board with this one. He wisely gave this advice: “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

Maybe that is the deal. We don’t need to save the ENTIRE world… just one little bit of it…. at a time.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.  – Woodrow Wilson