Choice

         Landon Carter created a story called, “The Rat and Cheese Story.” If you have a four foot by eight foot piece of plywood and put two foot high sides on it and a door at one end, then add four, one foot long, heavy, cardboard cylinders at one end and place cheese in the first tube and let a rat in, sooner rather than later, the rat will find the cheese. If for thirty days you put the cheese in the same tube, on the thirtieth day, the rat will go instantly to the first tube. If, on the thirty-first day you move the cheese to tube number three, the rat will go first to the first tube, perhaps be upset because the cheese has been moved, then proceed to find the cheese. The difference between rats and human beings is that human beings will go down the same tube, with no cheese in it, forever!

We have the capacity to end world hunger and persistent starvation.

Every time we don’t allow a person to help prepare, serve or clean up after a meal we provide, we contribute to their feelings of being “helpless.”

We have the capacity to end violence in all of our societies.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

– William Morrow

We have the capacity to create inspired schools.

We have the capacity to end the cycle of violence that spawns child abuse, rape and incest.

Nothing will change unless each one of us changes.

I have the capacity to kill. I choose to water loving-kindness.

I have met those who have committed violent crimes who are capable of loving-kindness.

The capacity for all things resides within us.

The question is what gets watered on a day in and day out basis?

Failure only occurs when we declare it.

According to the Story of Creation, after God created Adam and Eve, the whole human race was begun with one cell (the combination of an egg and a sperm, creating a single cell).

Darwin believed that the original animal was the amoeba, a single celled creature.

Using either theory, we, you and I are literally related.

Does that mean that those who are in the direct line of Mahatma Gandhi will be pacifists and “saints?”

It does not.

Does that mean that everyone in the direct line of Adolf Hitler will be a mass murderer?

It does not.

It means that the capacity for everything resides within each of us.

The question is, in this second, the only one we have any guarantee of, what will you water, encourage and nurture in you, in others, your home, your company, your country?

Make for yourself a magical life!

With all my love, gratitude and blessings!

Namaste!

bill