WHEN ONE IS BROKEN INTO TWO

Never Ending Possibilities

WHEN an inanimate object, such as a piece of wood, is broken in two, it remains broken. Never again can it remould itself into one piece. Animate objects, however, live on even after breakages. When one live amoeba is cut in two, it turns into two live amoebae. 

This is surely a sign from God, showing us the wealth of opportunity that God has kept in store for us live human beings in this world. For a human being, no defeat is final, no disaster permanently crippling. As an animate being, no human can be finally shattered for, when broken, its every piece is welded again to a new live being if anything more formidable than before. 

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No defeat is final, no disaster permanently crippling.
As an animate being, no human can be finally shattered
for, when broken, its every piece is welded again to a new live
being if anything more formidable than before.

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For a human being, failure is not failure at all, for it only serves to make one into a more profound, thoughtful person. Obstacles present no hindrance, for they open up new avenues of intellectual advance. Setbacks do not stunt one’s growth, for even if one is crushed into many small pieces, each piece in its own right has the capacity to form the building blocks of an entirely new being.

Such are the never-ending possibilities which God has created for man in this world, but it is only one who is alive to these possibilities who can benefit from them, gathering and marshalling his resources after some shattering set back. When he tastes defeat, he does not lose heart, but prepares himself to issue a new challenge. He builds his new shipwrecked boat, and aboard it, sets out once again on his voyage through life.

Selflessness

Heat and sunlight are supplied free to all living beings. The same
service is required of man. Man must adopt the principle of selfless service.