Monday, January 23, 2012

Breaking Patterns.

It is required that we frequently break away from our methods so that we don't fall into patterns. It often becomes necessary because we cannot wait for someone or something to complement us. We have to do both parts and then there is peace. One should be quite hasty and at the same time consciously slow-paced. Then the stress graph will show a flat line.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Good deeds return.

There was a Nebraska farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he
entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon...

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something
interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer
shared his seed corn with his neighbours.

"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when
they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter
asked.

"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from
the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow
inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my
corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."

He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve
unless his neighbors corn also improves.

So it is in other dimensions. Those who choose to be at peace must help
their neighbors to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help
others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it
touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others to find
happiness for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good corn, we must
help our neighbors grow good corn.**