In TRUE education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- BOY, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table TALK - they are all PART of the curriculum.
There are times when I get really depressed, when I'm going through difficult times and when I want someone to hold my hand. Sometimes I'll THINK, 'Forget it. I want to be this way.' I often FEEL that way. But when we STARTED the Love Yourself World TOUR, I stopped having those thoughts.
Have you not noticed that love is SILENCE? It may be while HOLDING the hand of another, or LOOKING lovingly at a CHILD, or taking in the BEAUTY of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's HAND - every devout mountaineer knows its POWER; but the marvelous BEAUTY value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what POET has sung this?
You STILL stand WATCH, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, BRIGHT and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O TORCH which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
Building a mission and building a business GOHAND in hand. The primary THING that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a HEALTHY understanding that we NEED to do both.