Names Create Inequality
Excerpt from What's In Your Name, Alfred J. Parker
If we agree with Abraham
Lincoln's statement that "all men are created
equal," what then happens in the lives of people
that results in wealth for a few, sickness and poverty
for many? What is the cause of the thousands of
experiences and stimuli that shape our lives? Is
their occurrence haphazard, or is there a reason for the
pattern of our lives?
At birth we are as
animals, and therefore equal for a brief period of our
lives; we remain as such until we begin to respond to
our given names. From this milestone onward our
minds begin to develop, and therein lies the inequality
of humanity.
Different names give us
physical and mental characteristics. For how else
can we differ from each other? As infants our
bodies are the same, we have the same fears, loves,
desires, and hates; but with the establishment of our
names, personality and strong desires of likes and
dislikes begin to manifest. All our happiness and
sorrows, hopes and despairs, health and sicknesses,
successes and failures are instilled in us by our
individual names and nicknames. All that we are,
and ever will be, is contained in the letters of our
name.
It is the manifesting
power of the name that had created the vast
inequality. If our names are balanced and we
follow the laws of nature, we are better able to reach
our potentialities.
Order
Thought for the Day
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Make life a constructive effort.
–Alfred J. Parker
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The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written.It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.
–Galileo Galilei
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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
–Charles C. Colton
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I cannot stress too deeply the importance of one's constructive mental attitude toward life. One gets out of life only what one puts into it; everything must be seeded in different degrees. Always express happy thoughts and keep an uncomplaining mind. A complaining mind is a destructive one-destructive to health and happiness. How easily we may be made unhappy depends upon the weakness and ignorance of our own minds. Happy thoughts expressed are like the sunbeams that create warmth-that stimulate one's sense of well being and make us feel happy. Give happiness and you will receive it in return: it is a natural phenomenon of a balanced and well-ordered mind. Do not complain; instead seek the solution to the problem, and then you can do something constructive about it. This can best be accomplished by forgetting self; too much false value is placed upon self and personality, thus developing an overrated and inflated ego that sees all things in proportion to its own ignorance.
–Alfred J. Parker
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