Help Achieve the Welfare of the World

February 24, 2009 by David Eggleton

"Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world." -- Theodore Parker

As you consider your duty in this troubled moment, try a fresh approach by giving equal weight to body, mind, heart and spirit, and focus on your strengths, talents and enthusiasms. The world needs, and aches for, the best version of you.

From Wikipedia: "Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his own words and quotes he popularized would later influence Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr." He was born in Lexington, Massachusetts.