Success

There was a farmer who grew superior
quality and award-winning corn.

Each year he entered his corn in the state
fair where it won honour and prizes.

One year a newspaper reporter
interviewed him and learnt 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 neighbours
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 neighbours grow inferior,
sub-standard and poor quality corn,
cross-pollination will steadily degrade
the quality of my corn.
If I am to grow good corn, I must
help my neighbours grow good corn."
The farmer gave a superb insight into
the connectedness of life.
His corn cannot improve unless
his neighbour's corn also improves.
So it is in the other dimensions!
Those who choose to be at harmony
must help their neighbours and
colleagues to be at peace.
Those who choose to live well must
help others to live well.
The value of a life is
measured by the lives it touches.