Slave or Servant

I'm feeling a little 'empty' today. So when I feel that way I go searching. And the Uni-Verse helped me to come across this... just what I needed to be reminded of!

Unconscious Slave or Conscious Servant?

Examples of slavery (implying disconnection and contraction; brain-centered):

• Judgment of anyone, anytime, for anything
• Competitive comparison to others
• Obsessive striving for perfection
• Saying you’ll do something and then not doing it
• Addiction of any kind
• Lying, even to “protect” someone else or yourself

Examples of service (implying spaciousness and expansion; heart-centered):

• Listening well, no matter what (and if it’s hard, use soft eyes here)
• Teaching humbly from your own experience
• Consciously cooking and/or cleaning your space
• Telling the truth / having a difficult conversation elegantly
• Encouraging other people in your life to do what they do well
• Breathing deeply in any moment (and see how patient you become)

*from http://www.artofattention.com/unconscious-slave-or-conscious-servant/