Personal Worth

PERSONAL WORTH

A great violinist stood before an audience and enraptured it with his playing. Suddenly he paused took the violin from beneath his chin, raised it in the air, and smashed it into a thousand pieces upon the floor. The audience sat aghast. In the silence the violinist walked to the front of the stage and said quietly, “Don’t be alarmed. The violin I smashed was one I purchased for a few dollars in a department store. I shall now play upon the Stradivarius.”
He took the valuable instrument from the case, tuned it for a moment and began to play. The music was magnificent, but to the majority of those present it was indistinguishable from the earlier selection. When he had concluded, the violinist spoke again, “Friends,” he said, “so much had been said about the value of this violin in my hands that I wanted to impress upon you the fact that the music is not in the instrument. It is in the one who plays upon it.”
Each one of us must always remember that each one of us as a person is more important than anything that we say or do. All that we say or do carries less than 10 per cent weight as compared to what we are. What we are carries the remaining 90 per cent weight!

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