Seeker:Amma, I find myself more and more of a spiritual future dedicated to contemplation and God. I just want to retire from all work and focus on awakening. Bless me.

Amma:Retirement from work may help you contemplate, but sooner or later you will find depression creeping into you. Therefore you may change the nature of your work but not retire from work itself.

Seeker:Forgive me Amma, but do you want me to get into humdrums of meaningless toil again? I am tired of working Amma, what should I do?

Amma:You may retire form self-centered work but not from service. If all these years you have worked for yourself, now you could serve humanity and God. Your fatigue is not so much physical as it is internal, since it is your self-centeredness that tires you out.

From the book “Amma – The Divine Mother”