In her wonderful book, Loving Yourself:  Four Steps to a Happier You, Daphne Rose Kingma shares an old fable about the creation of the world. “…it is said that there’s an angel who whispers a message to each soul who comes to earth,  a message of instruction about what each soul is supposed to do here when it arrives. Although many people wondered what complicated instructions the angel might have given each soul, the angel’s message was simple. It consisted of one word: give.”  Kingma goes on to say that one of the deepest paths to loving ourselves are those in which we serve others.