In the end, what does really matter....?

In the end, what does really matter...?

Yesterday I called an old friend to catch-up. To my surprise his nephew picked up the phone.

My friend does not talk anymore. He will never properly again. My friend had a stroke, which destroyed all brain areas that govern speech and hearing. He is now cared for, cleaned and fed. He never will be the same.

A couple month ago we met up, laughed and had a good time. We are still young, right? Nothing could hurt us, right?

Suddenly, boom, everything is different. We recognize how feeble we are. How even relatively small changes in our bodies can may our lives completely different. How desperately we are in need to reach out beyond us.

"What does it profit a man, if he wins the entire world and loses his own soul? For price could this man buy his own soul?" - Jesus asked this question the people of their times. What is my answer? What is your answer? And how will you take this thought into your company and apply to your leadership style?

Paul

5 March 2014

One of the most inspiring messages: Steve Job's Lecture

Hannah

One of the most inspiring messages I have ever heard was the one of Steve Jobs. It helps you reassess your career & life. It asks questions that guide you to the next mountain top.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_ptbiPoXM

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

 

 Paul 

 6 March 2014

 

Turning obstacles into opportunities: Nick Vujicic

Turning obstacles into opportunities:

How can a man born without arms an legs can have a positive impact on millions of people around the world  and be known by over 1 billion people on the planet?

The answer: "Never give up. Take even the little you have, apply it and generate value for others - and eventually you will have impact on your surroundings (and may be the world).

Meet Nick in this video and ask yourself what current obstacles in your work can you turn into opportunities.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P2nPI6CTlc

 Overcoming hopelessness: Nick Vujicic 


Paul 

6 March 2014

Nezami, Mattew 7: Judging Others

 Dear Paul

Yesterday while reading Scripture from Matthew, I remembered a beautiful poem about Christ and Judging Others:

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eyes and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, let me take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."    Matthew 7:1-5



'Withhold thy gaze from others' faults and defects,
But note the faults that thine own mirror reflects!
In all men much there is to praise and to blame:
The blame ignore; the praise then only proclaim!
The peacock's feathers gleam with colour and gold.
Its legs, which are uncomely, none need behold.
The Christ pursued on foot His usual way,
And through a market place He passed on that day.
Nearby a dog had died, and lay still and prone,
Its former beaut could no longer be shown.
Some casual bystanders saw with disgust
The corpse decaying and the hair full of dust.
Said one, 'This gruesome sight without any doubt
Is like the noxious smoke a snuffed light gives out.'
Another said,'This horror might cause in us
Poor vision or heart failure quite disastrous.'
Each one in turn invective cast, merciless;
Each scorned afresh the lifeless corpse, pitiless.
When came the turn of Jesus freely to speak,
Said He, 'The view of its wide mouth makes it clear
Its teeth than pearls are whiter, and so appear.'
Seek not others'faults, nor thy virtue extol;
Lament thine own defects, and poor self control.' 


Nezami, Persian Poet

دیده زعیب دگران کن فراز            صورت خود بین و در او عیب ساز

پای مسیحا که جهان می نبشت        بر سر بازارچه می گذشت

مرده سگی در گذر افتاده بود          یوسفش از چه به در افتاده بود

بر سر آن جیفه گروهی قطار          بر صفت کرکس مردارخوار

گفت یکی وحشت این در دماغ        تیرگی آرد چو نفس در چراغ

وان دگری گفت اگر حاصل است     کوری چشم است و بلای دل است

هر که از این پرده نوایی فزود        بر سر آن جیفه جفایی نمود

چون به سخن نوبت عیسی رسید     عیب رها کرد و به معنی رسید

گفت ز نقشی که در ایوان اوست     در بسفیدی نه چو دندان اوست

عیب کسان منگر و احسان خویش  دیده فرو بر به گریبان خویش

 نظامی

Hannah

4 April, 2014 


Source of translation:  http://www.farsinet.com/ChristInPersianPoetry/classical_poets2.html