In an old interview, one quarter of the famous Beatles, Paul McCartney said this “I believe in the spirit of goodness, so I can sympathize with Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Muslims. I think essentially they’re all saying the same thing: You ought to choose between good and bad. Something I thought about years ago is that, God is the word Good with an ‘o’ taken out, and devil is the word evil with a ‘d’ added. So they are personification of forces. I don’t subscribe to any one religion, but I do a feel an oneness with a spirit of goodness. But I don’t know whether there is an old man with a beard in the sky”.
I think nothing can be truer than what he said. With an addition of how goodness happens to you every time you practice it on others. William Blake said ‘Everything that lives, lives not alone, not for itself’.
I personally believe that ‘Quality of Life comes down to the quality of one’s contribution’. No matter how many cars sit on your driveway, how many homes you own and how much you have achieved, it all comes down to what did you do improve the lives of the others. For me, it all starts from choosing between the Good and Bad. Not everyone needs to consistently provide something for others in terms of contribution. By being plain good, we do make a lot of contribution to the world we live in.
There is a bit of God in everyone. Our philosophies suggest that and our religion preaches that. So, if only every single of us, lead a full day at a time, without causing heartburn and pain to others, we would have made a lot of contribution to the world. Need not necessarily one should perform of act of contribution. Not causing pain is the highest form of contribution.
An ancient Chinese proverb says, “ A little bit of fragrance always stick to the hand that gives you the roses”. When you work to improve the life’s of others, you indirectly elevate your own life in the process. When we practice random acts of kindness daily, our own life becomes far richer and meaningful. To cultivate the sacredness and sanctity of each day, one should serve others in some way.
The moment one stops seeing oneself as an individual and sees as a part of the collective, the paradigm changes. What one can do can vary from taking a sabbatical from work and do social service to letting a couple of cars pass by in the signal.
In this movie ‘Pay it forward’, when the class teacher gives an assignment to the students on ‘What action they would perform to make world a better place to live’, a student comes up with a very simple and genuine idea of performing three acts of kindness, with a condition that they pay it forward to three others. When the student does not see obvious results in his three acts of kindness, the boy is very upset of it, unaware of the movement he has created. ‘Pay it forward’ becomes a big movement, which even contains, a brand new Jaguar car gifted away by an attorney (generally seen as exploiters).
Maybe we serve in a small way, we would never be aware is the impact it would have and most importantly the way it gives back learning and happiness to one’s own self.
I think nothing can be truer than what he said. With an addition of how goodness happens to you every time you practice it on others. William Blake said ‘Everything that lives, lives not alone, not for itself’.
I personally believe that ‘Quality of Life comes down to the quality of one’s contribution’. No matter how many cars sit on your driveway, how many homes you own and how much you have achieved, it all comes down to what did you do improve the lives of the others. For me, it all starts from choosing between the Good and Bad. Not everyone needs to consistently provide something for others in terms of contribution. By being plain good, we do make a lot of contribution to the world we live in.
There is a bit of God in everyone. Our philosophies suggest that and our religion preaches that. So, if only every single of us, lead a full day at a time, without causing heartburn and pain to others, we would have made a lot of contribution to the world. Need not necessarily one should perform of act of contribution. Not causing pain is the highest form of contribution.
An ancient Chinese proverb says, “ A little bit of fragrance always stick to the hand that gives you the roses”. When you work to improve the life’s of others, you indirectly elevate your own life in the process. When we practice random acts of kindness daily, our own life becomes far richer and meaningful. To cultivate the sacredness and sanctity of each day, one should serve others in some way.
The moment one stops seeing oneself as an individual and sees as a part of the collective, the paradigm changes. What one can do can vary from taking a sabbatical from work and do social service to letting a couple of cars pass by in the signal.
In this movie ‘Pay it forward’, when the class teacher gives an assignment to the students on ‘What action they would perform to make world a better place to live’, a student comes up with a very simple and genuine idea of performing three acts of kindness, with a condition that they pay it forward to three others. When the student does not see obvious results in his three acts of kindness, the boy is very upset of it, unaware of the movement he has created. ‘Pay it forward’ becomes a big movement, which even contains, a brand new Jaguar car gifted away by an attorney (generally seen as exploiters).
Maybe we serve in a small way, we would never be aware is the impact it would have and most importantly the way it gives back learning and happiness to one’s own self.
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