“One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low.”

—  Meher Baba , book Discourses

Discourses (1967), p. 364.
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Context: One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.

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