|
Home | Blog Entries |
Photo Galleries |
Music |
World Headlines | Business Headlines |
Financial Tools |
Sports Headlines |
Entertainment Headlines |
Quoted Today |
Games |
Favourite Links |
Talk Back |
Your Posts |
Forum
Reginald Fleming R.J Johnston: Words are important.
Pu Yi, at 15: Why are words important?
Reginald Fleming R.J. Johnston: If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
- The Last Emporor
I dedicate this entry to the idea of Finesse in our everyday interaction with people.
We all aim to get along. Most of the time, we do.
But true Finesse for me is when beyond the cordial, great ideas and thoughts collide to create this swirl of euphoric chemistry; where amplified like-mindedness happens and in a single incidence of pure knowledge, you know you've found a bond, the kind of connection that turns the Cordial into the Fabulous; Colleagues into Friends, Clients into Face-bookees...
I read this quote somewhere and I hadn't realized I remembered it till it surfaced from the murky recesses of my memory as an instant knee-jerk reaction to a recent encounter.
"Small minds discuss People. Great minds discuss Ideas"
I have been very blessed to have found this "greatness" in some of the least expected places.
A recent conversation with a colleague revealed such honesty it moved me immensely. In fact, this is the reason for this entry.
It mattered not the subject matter of the conversation. What mattered was that in her sharing, I learned simple truths about who she is and what she stood for. For all that a person is clad in and for all the beauty they possess, nothing shines forth as categorically her own as the beauty she carries with her - a deep sense of justice, a wisdom, an honesty and a spirit that actually believes in it.
I guess I will never be a diplomat or a great thinker. I certainly am not suggesting that I have a great mind either. What I do feel utter conviction in is this.
That affinities can be forged, lines of comaraderie can be established - without needing to create a distinction between "us" and "them". "Enemies" do not have to be created for "Friends" to happen. Commonality has a lot less to do with common dislikes as it has with common beliefs and convictions.
For it is in these shared convictions that we find Harmony. Like how finding a piece of wondrous goodness in somebody else makes us want it for ourselves. In connecting, in being part of this, we can be reminded to find, preserve, protect or recover the same. And this makes us more whole than before. This is synthesis; the kind that's much needed in a world of deformities and disparateness.
So I am not Deepak whoever.
I am just aware that there is this silver lining in the dark cloud that's just descended. SADLY upon us. And I choose to celebrate this. For my gain is immense.
Peace is less found in bloodbath than in spirit and in harmony; in bonds built on ideals and knowledge; in ascension, not dissension.
Thank you.