True Success Part 9/9

Love. Not the Hollywood/Bollywood kind. The GOD kind.
Theres a word for it in Greek which has different levels of loving.
In English the word for love is the same whether you love your car, your dog or your wife. I'm not going to say which one I love most !

There's Eros which is the pure emotional and sensual love. It's the cinematic kind with special effects which can and often does vanish the morning after like 007. This is love without commitment to a person. Puppy love.

Then theres Phileo which is the paternal or platonic love or marital relationships. A love that is based in friendship and sacrifice. This is often a mutual love. You scratch my back and I scratch yours. This symbiotic relationship easily terminates when one does not live up to the other's expectation.

And finally there is the Agape love. This is the God kind of love. I often think of it as true love. This kind of love is not dependent on the recipient and their behaviour but only on the giver.

Theres a beautiful chapter in the Word of God about the qualities of this Love.


Even if I speak in all the languages of Angels and Men and have not Love, I am an irritating gong. If I can know the future as God does, and understand everything in the universe and have the power of Superman but have no love, I am nothing. If I donate all my worldly goods to the impoverished and am persecuted and killed for my faith, and have no Love, I am the loser.

Love is showing patience and still remains kind.
Without envy of others success or boasting about your own.
Not being rude or selfish and rarely angered, it doesn't hold a grudge. Delights in truth and good rather than in evil.
Always defends others and trusts others, with hope and endurance.
Love cannot fail. Prophecies can fail, and languages will fade away, knowledge will be outdated quickly.

For the revelation of the future is only partial, and we wait for God's perfect plan so our imperfect path can be done away with.
When I was a child, I thought immaturely.
But now as a man I put away childishness.

Now what we see of God is reflected in us, is as if through a bad mirror, but Love brings us face to face. Now I know this partially, but soon I shall experience God fully, just the same way that he knows me.

Now the top three are Faith, Hope and Love. The greatest of these is Love. I have show you the way to excellence. Follow the way of Agape desiring the gifts.

Success Part 8

Once a poor boy was examining a rich man's car. It was the latest and most expensive. Straight out of the latest James bond movie. Then the owner came by and said "Do you like it ? My brother gave it to me."

The boy then exclaimed "Oh how I wish...." and then when the rich
man thought he knew what was coming next. "... I could be a brother like that. "

Sibling rivalry is quite common.

Vast empires totter and fall when the king has more than one descendant. Success is of no use if succession is not assured. Heirs to the kingdom forget their common blood when maneuvering for power.

In climbing the path to success, the ladder of the backs one trod on is forgotten. Short-lived pseudo success. We would not be where we are today if not for our brothers and sisters, both familial and spiritual.

Acts of kindness truly separate chaff from wheat, and is one of the most powerful indicators of success.

Never mistake kindness for weakness. However call a spade a spade. Those who do not understand kindness and mercy after experiencing it, should not be shown mercy.

It takes great strength to show kindness, and not the other way around.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~Aesop

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. ~Audrey Hepburn
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. ~Mother Teresa

It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahil Gibran

Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time. ~Richard Carlson

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. Clark

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. ~Dalai Lama

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Philo
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! ~George Elliston

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. ~Lao-Tse

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author Unknown

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. ~Confucius

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. ~Maya Angelou

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. ~Danny Thomas

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. ~Harold Kushner

Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments. ~Talmud

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino

Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. ~Adam Lindsay Gordon

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. ~Barbara De Angelis

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ~Scott Adams

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns. ~Marc Estrin

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. ~Author Unknown

True success inspires brotherly kindness.