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Originally Posted by Nelson  I believe that it's impossible to truly be a "selfless" lightworker. You're always serving yourself, it's a matter of how you define your happiness. |
What you're missing is that lightworkers have a different way of defining self. You can argue that a lightworker is still inherently self-serving, which would be true, but the definition of self is expanded to encompass all things, so this is not remotely the same kind of self-serving as you might otherwise expect. To a lightworker, being self-serving means serving the whole planet, not so much because the planet's health is important to the lightworker as an individual, but rather because the lightworker's sense of self includes the whole planet.
A lightworker would see a darkworker's definition of self as too limiting, like a human being that believes s/he is nothing but a fingernail and wants to serve the interests of that fingernail above all else. A darkworker would argue that a lightworker is inherently self-serving because a lightworker will still do what's best for the fingernail. A lightworker would say, "That's sorta true, but I see myself as much more than a fingernail, so the fingernail's interests are served because it's going along for the ride."
For example, when I take the time to help someone privately, which I do in some fashion many times a day on average, I'm not doing it because it serves my interests as an individual or because I think there will be some kind of karmic payback or because it makes me feel good. I do it because the other person's need is my own. Helping someone is no different than tending to my own bruises. Those people ARE me. I'm simply tending to my own health, which to me is common sense.
This is how I define a lightworker, not necessarily how others would define it.