Synergy in Harmony

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
honor and prizes.

One year 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 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, sub-standard and poor quality
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."


The farmer gave a superb insight into 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
harmony must help their neighbors and colleagues 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.

If we are to grow good quality corn, we must help our
neighbors grow good quality corn too....

 

harmony ['hɑ:məni]
n. 协调；和睦；融洽；调和

synergy ['sinədʒi]
n. 协同；协同作用；增效