SUCCESS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION

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 honor 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 neighbors'.

" 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
neighbors 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.

SUCCESS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION. IT IS VERY OFTEN A PARTICIPATIVE AND COLLECTIVE PROCESS