Share a thought, make it a positive one

This is an extract from “The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight” by Thom Hartmann:

“Ideas are the most powerful force in the human world: everything man-made originated with ideas. Our culture is an idea – the idea of domination – and it can awaken to, or remember, the idea of cooperation that humans lived out for millions of years.

So if you share these ideas with just one person every month, and each of them shares the idea with one person a month, a rapid and profound multiplication of this view can spread across the world. When you do the math on this ‘one person a month’ sharing, you discover that within less than three years every human being alive – over six billion people – could hear the message, see the vision, and feel the possibility of a better life.

Whatever the number, there is a synergistic effect in human interactions. The more people who think or believe a certain way, the more who will find it easy to think and believe that way. The more acts of mercy performed, the more people will be inclined to act mercifully. The more people turn to searching for peace and divinity, the more will be found.”

What is the thought that is occupying our minds every moment, every day? Its been observed that the average person sees the message that ‘the goal of life is to consume’ – more, better, newer, improved, higher status. Most people now lay their hopes, fears and dreams before the altar of consumerism. They hope for the better car, fear of losing their job, and dream of a larger and more impressive house.

What is our shared vision? A community can be world-transforming when a shared vision is strong, a group mission is acted out daily as part of life and work of the community, and people come together with shared values and purpose.

What are you thinking now? To clinch the biggest deal or to affirm someone for his/her qualities? To get the best bargain or to make someone happy?

Make a difference now. Share a positive thought and pass it on…

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