“Those who grasp something of the wonderful possibilities which open out before us as we voluntarily associate ourselves with the law of sacrifice will wish to begin that voluntary association long ere they can rise to the heights just dimly sketched.
Like other deep spiritual truths, it is eminently practical in its application to daily life, and none who feel its beauty need hesitate to begin to work with it.
When a man resolves to begin the practice of sacrifice, he will train himself to open every day with an act of sacrifice, the offering of himself, before the day’s work begins, to Him to whom he gives his life; his first waking thought will be this dedication of all his power to his Lord.
Then each thought, each word, each action in daily life will be done as a sacrifice – not for its fruit, not even as duty, but as the way in which, at the moment, his Lord can be served.
All that comes will be accepted as the expression of His will; joys, troubles, anxieties, successes, failures, all to him are welcome as marking out his path of service;
he will take each happily as it comes and offer it as a sacrifice; he will loose each happily as it goes, since its going shows that his Lord has no longer need for it.
Any powers he has he gladly uses for service; when they fail him, he takes their failure with happy equanimity; since they are no longer available he cannot give them.
Even suffering that sping from past causes not yet exhausted can be changed into a voluntary sacrifice by welcoming it; taking possession of it by willing it , a man may offer it as a gift, changing it by this motive into a spiritual force.”
Annie Besant
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 