Today's
quotation:
You are not here merely to
make a living. You are here
to enable the world to live
more amply, with greater
vision, and with a finer spirit
of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.
You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Woodrow Wilson
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Today's
Meditation:
You
can make the world a brighter and richer place. Yes,
you. I can, too.
The
question is simple: Do we?
Do
we encourage others to be the best they can be without
qualifying our encouragement based on our
expectations? Do we give sincere compliments to
others, even for simple, seemingly insignificant
things? Do we do our best at our jobs so that we'll
be good role models to others? Do we actually use
our creative talents and take care of our bodies and
spirits?
The
world can be a richer place if more people were to
contribute in positive ways, not negative; constructive
ways and not destructive; ways that add positively rather
than take selfishly.
It's
very easy to do our jobs and get our paychecks and feel
that we're doing enough. Then we spend our money and
expect others to serve us because we have money to
spend. This lifestyle, though, diminishes us as the
spirits that we are; it diminishes our eternal souls who
are simply in this body for a limited amount of time in
order to contribute to the world, not to take from it.
Don't
make yourself poorer than you must be. Enrich
yourself by spreading encouragement and love and
compassion and compliments and anything else that you can
think of that can make this world a brighter place.
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