I always wonder about the extraordinary stamina of doctors, social workers and other people involved in public work. They are continuously solving others' problems,  dealing with others' diseases, and in the midst of all that they remain so healthy and fit. Do they have a strong immune system or they get some kind of nourishment out of helping others?

It seems there is an existential law that works underneath. Helping others cures you out of your own problems. Of course, one should not overdo it, but it is certainly one of  the ways of forgetting your illnesses.

It has happened so in the life of the great English writer George Bernard Shaw.

Once George Bernard Shaw phoned his doctor and said, "I am in much trouble and I feel that my heart is going to fail. Come immediately!"The doctor came running. He had to run up three staircases and was perspiring heavily. He came in and without saying anything, just fell down on a chair and closed his eyes. Bernard Shaw jumped out of his bed and asked, "What is happening?" The doctor said, "Don't say anything. It seems I am dying. It is a heart attack."

Bernard Shaw started helping him; he brought a cup of tea, some aspirin, he did whatsoever he could. Within half an hour the doctor had recovered. And then he said, "Now I must leave, give me my fee."

George Bernard Shaw said, "This is really something. You should pay me! I have been running around for half an hour doing things for you and you haven't even asked anything about me."

But the doctor said, "I have cured you. This is a treatment and you have to pay me the fee."The conclusion Osho draws from this story is interesting : "When you become interested in somebody else's illness you forget your own, hence so many leaders, so many gurus, so many masters. It gives you an occupation. If you are concerned with other people, if you are a servant of people, a social worker, helping others, you will forget your own confusion, your inner turmoil, because you are so occupied.

Psychiatrists never go mad -- not because they are immune to it, but they are so much concerned with other people's madness  that they forget completely that they also can go mad.I have come to know many social workers, leaders, politicians, gurus, and they stay healthy just because they are concerned with others."The only thing you have to be careful about is: don't try to dominate others. The best way  to avoid this is start meditating while you are helping others. Charity has to begin at home, you know!