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 andprizes.Once a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt somethinginteresting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that thefarmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours'."How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbourswhen they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" thereporter asked."Why sir, "said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollenfrom the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If myneighbours grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn,cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I amto grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn."The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. Hiscorn cannot improve unless his neighbour's corn also improves. So it isin the other dimensions! Those who choose to be at harmony must helptheir neighbours and colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to livewell must help others to live well.Success does not happen in isolation. It is very often a participativeand collective ocess

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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, thenyou and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and Ihave an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have twoideas