Chinook embodies beautifully the balance between developing and nurturing oneself and being concerned with the needs of the world. There's a relatively unexplored and, at times, misunderstood dynamic operating here. Service will not always cause burn-out. I think service has been given a bad rap over the past couple of decades in our society. That's probably a tremendous advance, but at this point it doesn't appear to be well-balanced.
Some people are unable to connect with the wider environment.
They are unwilling, and perhaps afraid, to discover how giving oneself to others and to the world is, in fact, empowering. It is nourishing . There is a way that our personal needs are more than met as we seek to meet the needs of the world. Now, with the demands of a deteriorating environment pressing in upon us, I think more and more of us are going to find ways to serve each other and to serve the whole earth community. We need to support each other in those endeavors, and to discover the ways that this is going to be a nourishing and not a depleting activity.