Where Real Change starts?

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow our minds to dwell upon. It is in our thoughts that the first movements toward the renovation of the heart occur. Thoughts are the place where we can and must begin to change.
-- Dallas Williard

I Created You!

One day, as usually was the case, a young waif, a little girl, stood at the street corner begging for food, money or whatever she could get. Now this girl was wearing very tattered clothes; she was dirty and quite disheveled.

As it happens, a well-to-do young man passed that corner without giving the girl a second look. But when he returned to his expensive home, his happy and comfortable family, and his well-laden dinner table, his thoughts returned to the young waif and he became very angry at God for allowing such conditions to exist.

He reproached God, saying, "How can you let this happens? Why don't you do something to help this girl?"

Then he heard God in the depths of his being respond by saying, "I did. I created You!"

By Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R., The Sower's Seeds

Shallowness

A journalist one day asked the Master to name one thing that characterizes the Modern World.
The Master unhesitatingly replied, "People every day know more and more about the Cosmos and less and less about themselves."
And to an astronomer who held him spellbound with the wonders of modern astronomy the Master suddenly said, "Of all the millions of strange objects in the universe the black holes and quasars and pulsars? the strangest, unquestionably, is the self!"

By Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

Marketing Concepts

You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to herand say: "I am very rich. Marry me!" That's Direct Marketing
One of your friends points at you and says: "He's very rich. Marry him." That's Advertising

You go up to her and get her telephone number. Thenext day, you call and say: "Hi, I'm very rich. Marry me." That's Telemarketing

You get up and straighten your tie, you walk up to herand pour her a drink, you open the door of the car forher, pick up her bag after she drops it, offer herride and then say: "By the way, I'm rich. Will you marry me?" That's Public Relations

She walks up to you and says: "You are very rich! Can you marry me?" That's Brand Recognition

You go up to her and say: "I am very rich. Marry me!" She gives you a nice hardslap on your face. That's Customer Feedback

You go up to her and say: "I am very rich. Marry me!" And she introduces you toher husband. That's demand and supply gap.

Before you say anything, another person comes and tells her: "I'm rich. Will you marry me?" and she goeswith him That's competition eating into your market share

Before you say: "I'm rich, Marry me!" your wife arrives. That's restriction for entering new markets

Source: My friend's forward