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Give and Receive

Sebuah prosa singkat yang ditulis oleh Jean M Bridges dan saya terima dari Rhenald Kasali di sela-sela bedah buku Change!-nya.

You must always be prepared to give life that which you wish to receive.

If you hope to gain happiness, love and security—then you must give happiness, love and security in return.

If you thrive on hatred, pain and jealously—then so shall you receive.

For you must respect life as you in turn seek respect.

You can only succeed if you give that which is borne to success.

For, as the lives of each of us are dependent—one upon the other.

You must learn to feel for the lives of other as you feel for yourself.

Then, and only then, can you feel—and know—the true meaning of love-life and true self Happiness