Gratitude

If you have never experienced

the danger of war or the solitude of imprisonment,

the agony of torture and hunger,

you are much ahead of the 500 million people who live in this world.

If you have food in your refrigerator,

clothes to wear, a roof on your head and a place to sleep,

you are richer than the 75% of the people who live on this earth.

If you can go to your place of worship

without being threatened, arrested, tortured or killed,

you are luckier than the 3,000,000,000 persons of this world.

If you have money in your bank account and your wallet

and some loose change in some little box,

you are one of the world's 8% well-to-do population.

Work as if you have no need of the money,

Love as if nobody ever made you suffer,

Dance as if nobody is watching you,

Sing as if nobody is hearing you,

Live as if the paradise were on this earth.