" Anyone who stops learning is old, Anyone who keeps learning stays young. " - Henry Ford - July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947. Worth Reading - excellent story >>>>> Dr.Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K.Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence, in his lecture at the University of Puerto Rico, shared the following story as an example of non-violence in parenting. >>>>> "I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of Durban, South Africa, in the middle of the sugar plantations. We were deep in the country and had no neighbours, so my two sisters and I would look forward to going to town to visit friends or go to the movies. >>>>> >>>>> One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance. Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in town, my father asked me to take care of several pending chores, such as getting the car serviced. When I dropped my father off that morning, he said "I will meet you here at 5 pm, and we will go home together." >>>>> >>>>> After hurriedly completing my chores, I went straight to the nearest movie theatre. I got so engrossed in a John Wayne double feature that I forgot the time. It was 5.30 before I remembered. By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my father was waiting for me, it was almost 6 o'clock. >>>>> >>>>> He anxiously asked me, "Why were you late?". I was so ashamed of telling him I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said "The car wasn't ready so I had to wait" not realizing that he had already called the garage. When he caught me in the lie he said: There's something wrong in the way I brought you up that didn't give you the confidence to tell me the truth. In order to figure out where I went wrong with you, I am going to walk home 18 miles and think about it". >>>>> >>>>> So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the dark on most unpaved unlit roads. I couldn't leave him, so for five and a half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go through this agony for a stupid lie I uttered. I decided then and there that I was never going to lie again. > I often think about that episode and wonder, if he had punished me the way we punish our children, whether I would have learned a lesson at all. I don't think so. I would have suffered the punishment and gone on doing the same thing. But this single non-violent action was so powerful that it is still as if it happened yesterday. That is the power of non-violence. >>>>> >>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++ >>>>> >>>>> WHAT IS MATURITY by Adi Shankara >>>>> Maturity is when you stop trying to change others ... instead focus on changing yourself. >>>>> Maturity is when you accept people as they are. Maturity is when you understand everyone is right in their own perspective. >>>>> Maturity is when to learn to let go. >>>>> Maturity is when you are able to drop expectations from a relationship and give for the sake of giving. >>>>> Maturity is when you understand whatever you do, you do for your own peace. >>>>> Maturity is when you stop proving to the world how intelligent you are. >>>>> Maturity is when you don't seek approval from others. >>>>> Maturity is when you stop comparing with others. >>>>> Maturity is when you are at peace with yourself. >>>>> Maturity is when you are able to differentiate between need and want and are able to let go of your wants. >>>>> Lastly >>>>> You gain Maturity when you stop attaching happiness to material things. >>>>> ============================== ===========================--
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