Re: [members] Sharing and Caring is Profitable

THE CORN STORY  ==============  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.  Once 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 poo r 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.  Success does not happen in isolation. It is very often a participative and  collective process.       If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you  and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an  idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas