Service is the highest form of consciousness in the physical world. When we recognize our love of humanity, we do whatever has to be done to express that love to and with others. That is called service. The service I am talking about is not your occupation. Your vocational expression (for which you are paid) often fulfills the planet’s karmic law, which is that by the sweat of your brow you earn your living. That is perfect, but it is not the service I am dealing with.
Service is an expression of loving in action, with no demand for or expectation of a reward (monetary or otherwise). Service is its own reward. Along with that expression there are often side effects, known as joy and upliftment. The person who does service and tries to get publicity for it limits the benefit of the act to their being known for the act. The person who does it in silence, acting in a loving consciousness just to do it- —that person builds up the Light, which neutralizes negative karma.

All this theory about service remains theory, unless you try it on for size. The Mystical Traveler often says, “Don’t believe me. You don’t have to have faith in what I say. Check it out for yourself.” The best way to check out the value of service is by being of service to someone or some group that isn’t part of your usual domestic or vocational life. Go to a home for the blind and read to them. Go to an old age home and talk to some of the lonely, dear people. Go to a veterans’ hospital and play cards with some of the guys there. Go to a children’s hospital and just hold a child and tell them stories. Type letters, stuff envelopes, do whatever is required for an organization whose entire existence is based upon sharing unconditional loving. Any of these acts is guaranteed to do two things:

(1) assist those in need, and
(2) lighten and make things easier and more joyful for you and, as a result, more joyful for anyone who comes in contact with you.

John-Roger
From: “Passage Into Spirit”, p.68