The award winning corn

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.