“The scope of service is not limited to great gestures like giving big donations to public institutions. They also serve who express their love in little things. A word that gives courage to a drooping heart or a smile that brings hope and cheer in the midst of gloom has as much claim to be regarded as service as onerous sacrifices and heroic self-denials. A glance that wipes out bitterness from the heart and sets it throbbing with a new love is also service, although there may be no thought of service in it. When taken by themselves, all these things seem to be small; but life is made up of many such small things. If these small things were ignored, life would be not only unbeautiful but unspiritual." - Meher Baba
Cover photo of "Don Stevens" (and within) copyright © 2011 by Douglas Frank, used by permission. Charles Haynes on Meher Baba and Detachment copyright © 2011 by Daniel J. Sanders. I was Sitting there Worrying and Worrying about this, that and the Other Thing, copyright © 2011 by Mickey Karger. "Scholars and the Rest of Us," and "Curiosity: The Mysterious Compound," copyright © 2011 by Dan Tyler. "The Agony of Wishing" by Rumi is copyright © Deepak Chopra (transcribed from a recording). "A Chasm," and "The Hands of Baba" (with acompanying photo: "It is a wild piece of honey filled comb that fell from one of my bee hives." ~ T.S.) are all copyright © 2011 by Tracey Schmidt. "The Song of the New Life" by Meher Baba, and Ghani, and all other direct quotes from Avatar Meher Baba are copyright (2011) by the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitible Trust, Ahmednagar, MS, India."Ajanta," poem and photos are copyright © 2011 by Irma Sheppard. "God in Human Form" by Abigail Mott, and "Cyprus and Baba's House," tidbit, and "Don E. Stevens, My Beautiful Big Bear..." article, "Happiness" article, and photos of Don Stevens with Laurent are all copyright © 2011 by Laurent Weichberger. Photos of Don Stevens with Kathy Harris and friends, are copyright © 2011 by Kathy Harris. Photos from the Beads on One String pilgrimage are copyright © 2011 by Karl Moeller. "I will Follow Him," article copyright © 2011 by Cynthia Barrientos. "The Lesson" article and accompanying photos, are copyright © 2011 by Alison Hutter. "A New Way of Living Together," article is copyright © 2011 by Evan M. Bussanich. Used by permission. The "Occupy Sesame Street" image is from, http:// occupysesamestreet.org. Anything note aforementioned in this circular is copyright © 2011 by Laurent Weichberger.