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Good morning, everybody. I would like to tell you a little story, a true story.<\/p>\n
This morning, there was an old woman, alone, nobody around her. She woke up alone and followed her routine, what she does every day. She goes to the supermarket to buy her breakfast, just a banana and she sits in front of the supermarket on a little chair in the corner, almost hiding, and she eats her banana. And suddenly a young girl with a flower comes and gives it to her.<\/p>\n
She is a real Japanese woman with Japanese education. You know Japanese education. No, no, no, why me? But the young girl put the flower on the bench beside her. She was stunned; she was so shocked. Probably it had never happened in her whole life that somebody she doesn\u2019t know, in her deep loneliness, came and gave her flowers. And this young girl was Sky.<\/p>\n
Sky.<\/p>\n
And I, I feel this old woman\u2019s pleasure, her surprise. Surprised by the flower, but not only by the flower. Surprised that somebody she doesn\u2019t know gives, not flowers, but love. I spoke about this a few weeks ago. Did you do it? Did you do it? Giving a banana, giving a flower? You did? That\u2019s good. Who gave a flower? Ah! Ah!<\/p>\n
So, remember \u2013 this week, I don\u2019t ask you to do it every day. It\u2019s possible every day, but until next Sunday, just one time. Ok? You agree? Really? It\u2019s very simple: you go into your garden, take a flower, or go to the supermarket and buy the cheapest one. No need to buy an orchid. And you will feel that the best gift is for yourself. When you give, you give yourself pleasure.<\/p>\n
Ok, this old woman is very happy to receive flowers, but when you give, there is infinitely more pleasure. I love when people give me flowers. We walk in front of the ocean, there is a little road, and one morning there was an old couple, and the woman \u2013 an old woman I don\u2019t know, she is not Raelian \u2013 came and gave me flowers. For no reason. I still don\u2019t know why. But I know why \u2013 because of love. She wanted to give love to somebody.<\/p>\n
Many times, you want to give love, but you are shy and you don\u2019t do it. Why be shy?<\/p>\n
You know, it happened to me a long time ago \u2013 a man full of ego, really with a head bigger than a house \u2013 in a seminar, at the Happiness Academy, there was a line of Raelians coming to pay their respects to me. And in front of everybody, this man put his hand in his jacket and gave me a large amount of money. And it was clear that he was showing everybody, look at me, look what I\u2019m doing. And I refused. I refused, because the one who truly gives is the one who receives. A man with as many millions as he wants \u2013 he has no power. Who has power? The one who receives. With a very simple thing \u2013 just: no.<\/p>\n
I felt a revolution in his brain. He was so sure that everybody would be admiring him. I said, \u201cno, thank you. When it comes from love, it will be welcome. But as long as it\u2019s just to show how good you are, I will not help you. But you can come back with more money and put it on my car without your name on the envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the second step, eh? Many people give me an envelope but there is their name on the back. If you are really full of love, you don\u2019t write your name. Why do you write your name? Because you want to show: it\u2019s me, eh? It\u2019s me who is giving.<\/p>\n
I did the same as Sky, in a park in Tokyo. I told you this story many times, but it\u2019s good to remember. In this public park there were many homeless people, and the Raelians had given me so much food that even if I had wanted to keep my belly, I couldn\u2019t eat everything. I tried, but I couldn\u2019t. So, I went to the park with a plastic bag full of food. And I saw many people sitting on benches, homeless, and one of them was sleeping. I went very slowly, I put the bag beside his head without waking him up, and I went to sit on a bench far away. And I was waiting, for my pleasure, to see him wake up, eat, and look around wondering who had given it to him. Of course I didn\u2019t say, \u201cme!\u201d The mouth, keep the mouth shut! Just silent.<\/p>\n
And every mouthful he put in his mouth and chewed was a huge pleasure for me. Each time he was chewing something, I was saying inside myself, \u201cthank you, thank you for giving me this pleasure.\u201d Love. Ah, that\u2019s difficult.<\/p>\n
Train yourself to give without expecting any thank you. Not thank you spoken aloud \u2013 but also not thank you with the eyes. Because when we give, something inside us pushes us to want \u2013 kiss me, admire me. No! That\u2019s the opposite of love. It\u2019s pure ego.<\/p>\n
So, remember \u2013 give a flower, give anything, food, a drink, just helping with something \u2013 and if possible, in secret. When you do that, when you do it in secret, you increase the level of love on this planet.<\/p>\n
Imagine, 8 billion human beings. If even 10% of them suddenly gave love to others, how different would the planet be? That\u2019s your task. Everybody on Earth must increase love. Not in beautiful theory \u2013 with a flower.<\/p>\n
And now this old woman is back at her home. I\u2019m sure she has put this flower in a little pot and she will keep it all day. Remembering this little fairy. That\u2019s how you change the planet.<\/p>\n
Shall we do it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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