Help others to help our own self .

There was a Nebraska farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered
his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon...

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting
about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn
with his neighbors.

"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors 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 neighbors grow inferior corn,
cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good
corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."

He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his
neighbor's corn also improves.

So it is in other dimensions. Those who choose to be at peace must help their neighbors
to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value
of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must
help others to find happiness for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good corn, we must help our
neighbors grow good corn.

HELP OTHERS TO HELP OUR OWN SELF HELP OTHERS TO HELP OUR OWN SELF