Whenever You Do Something Good

Whenever you do something good, do it out of love – not out of duty.
I used to go to many clubs to speak.
In one Rotary Club they had a motto, which was placed just in front of me, ‘We serve.’ I had not
gone to speak to them about service, but I said, ”Now I have forgotten what I had come for.
I am going to speak about this motto that is in front of me in golden letters, ‘We serve.’
If you are aware of your service, it is not service; it is a very cunning way of
enslaving the other person.
To me, duty is a four-letter, ugly word – obscene.”
Never do anything out of the idea of duty, because it means you are forcing yourself,
it means you are fulfilling a certain demand from the other side,
it means you are following a certain discipline taught by the society to you.
Only act out of love.
Then only your act is beautiful and is a blessing.
You should do things not to be rewarded, not to be remembered, not to have people be grateful to you.
You should do because you enjoy doing – and your reward is complete,
beyond your action you are not expecting anything... otherwise even the best act becomes ugly

OshO