Sharing is not only profitable but diplomatic

[Camino_LPO]

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