There’s a ‘secret’ that all great historical and present thinkers, philosophers, and high achievers have agreed to be a universal truth.
This secret revolves around this simple idea: You are what you think.
English philosopher James Allen wrote: “As a man thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.” Stoic and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” Poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” Author Earl Nightingale said: “We become what we think about,” and Mark Twain wrote: “Life consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.”
All these great minds discovered the secret to living a happy, purposeful and productive life, and it’s this:
We live in a world of thought.
Our thoughts create our experiences, and thus, we experience what we think.
It is the quality of our thoughts, then, that create the quality of our life.
Ok, if you have managed to read this far, you are either very brave or it is too cold outside to do something else. What we do in Rotary, in my opinion, is feeling based. It isn't too far removed from what we do to keep our own family going. We want a better life for others but we need to understand and feel what a better life really means to people who live differently from us and have a different set of values from us. Cultural differences need to be learnt and understood and that is probably why our Club is not evolving into our multicultural world. Can we find an open door to become a more diverse and dynamic Club in 2022-23?
The photo above is titled "Where no race or age matters" I am sure there is a message for us in there somewhere.
