CL 266 - What is useful service but love of the neighbor in act?

CL 266 [3, 5]
So they continued, saying,
"The positions we hold are positions we admittedly sought,
but for no other purpose than to be able to perform useful services
more fully and to extend them more widely.
We are also surrounded with honor, and we accept it,
yet not for our own sake, but for the good of the society.
. . . the services we render
come from a love of them within us from the Lord.
This love, moreover, gains its bliss
from its communication through useful service with others.
We know, too, from experience,
that the more we perform useful services from a love of them,
the more this love increases,
and with it the wisdom on which the communication depends.
But the more we keep these services to ourselves
and do not communicate them,
the more the bliss dies away . . ..
The whole of heaven, in short,
is nothing but a world of useful service,
from the firsts to the lasts of it.
What is useful service but love of the neighbor in act?
And what holds the heavens together except this love?"

Everyone who believes in the Lord
and refrains from evils as sins
performs useful services from the Lord.
But everyone who does not believe in the Lord
and does not refrain from evils as sins
performs the services he does from himself
and for the sake of himself.