"If I Can Stop One Heart From...

"If I can stop one Heart from breaking,

I shall not live in Vain.

If I can ease one Life the Aching

Or cool one Pain

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his Nest again

I shall not live in Vain."

EMILY DICKINSON

If I can serve even one amongst you in his or her endeavour towards self-discovery, I shall not have lived in vain. Nay, my life on earth will have found its purposeful meaning.

If we can discover a true, divine thought, then in no time God will ask or compel time to be on our side. Nothing save time can help us feel the breath of Truth and touch the Feet of God. We can own Eternity's Time if we truly want to. Sweet and meaningful are the words of AUSTIN DOBSON: "Time goes, you say! Ah no! Time stays, we go."

Like the sun during an eclipse, the light of many world-illumining individuals is covered by criticism, ridicule and even hostility. Ingratitude is the order of the day. Let us cry ditto to the words of the immortal Russian novelist DOSTOEVSKY, who wrote in his Notes from the Underground:

"I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped."