Discourse on Others Before Self

“Make a difference about something other than yourselves.” - Toni Morrison

Seeker:?If you yourself is not worth living than who is??And why?

Maladkar:?Good thinking and good point.?You are emphasizing on importance of your own being whereas the quote is emphasizing on making a difference to others.?If you ask me I will suggest taking the Middle Way which is generally the right way.?By Middle way I mean we should first care of oneself to a point but not beyond.?Take care of your basic needs, but then don’t live fulfilling your own basket of needs.?Now start thinking for others and what best you can do for others.?I will like to quote Blaise Pascal, the famous mathematician.?A person once said to him, “If I had your brains, I would be a better person.”?Hearing this Pascal said, “Be a better person and you will have my brains.”?If your life makes a difference even to a single life, if not more, then you have achieved the purpose of your life.?Let making the difference to someone be a selfless deed and not based on any of your need or greed.?Do not think less of yourself, but start thinking of yourself less.?Let the action for someone be like that of the Sun, the Moon, the stars, the rivers, the winds, the seas, and even the trees.?All of them just keep on giving and are not having intention of receiving.?Giving is enriching, just receiving always is depleting.??Nature teaches you how to live selflessly for others and believes only in the act of giving.?We should learn from Nature and reciprocate too, isn’t it??When you go beyond your need, it then becomes a seed, that will bloom into a beautiful tree, making difference to others for free.?You are then not expecting anything in return and your satisfaction comes only in giving and not just receiving to which we have been used to.?Earlier receiving used to give pleasure, now it is in giving that will give you more pleasure.?

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