Daily Meditation: Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Good, doing - without expecting any reward

12/14/2010

How often you hesitate to show kindness, thinking that no one will appreciate your gesture, that human beings are ungrateful, even mean, so not worth trying to do anything for. Well, that is a very harmful way of thinking, as it inhibits what is best in you. You may have done some good and not been rewarded. You may even have been wronged. It does happen. But you have to understand, once and for all, that your behaviour should not depend on other people's attitudes. Do good and expect nothing. Count only on the One who sees everything, who knows everything. He alone can appreciate your good, generous acts, so it is from him that your reward will come, but perhaps in a different form from the one you were expecting. You will be in better health, stronger, wiser and happier - isn't that the best reward of all?