How Important Love Can Be

\"We cannot live for ourselves alone,\" wrote Hermann Melville. \"A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow man.\"
Perhaps this explains why we are often moved by people caring deeply for one another. A story illustrating the point, perhaps apocryphal,is told by a friend of mine, the noted author Dan Millman: Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liza who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her five-year-old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness.
The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment, before taking a deep breath and saying, \"Yes, I\'ll do it if it will save Liza.\"
As the transfusion progressed, he lay in a bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile aded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, \"Will I start to die right away?\"
Being young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor. He thought he was going to have to give her all his blood.
We find it inspiring to think of a child being so selfless and generous that he would give his life for his sister.
The fact that such a simple story can move our hearts is evidence that we are all capable of acting from our higher selves more often than we do, that we are all capable of more cooperation that we often think.
There are also medical implications to whether we think of others or only of ourselves, as Larry Scherwitz found out when he conducted a most unusual study. Now the director of research at California Pacific Medical Center\'s Institute for Health and Healing in San Francisco, Dr. Scherwitz taped the conversations of nearly six hundred men. About a third of these men were suffering from heart disease; the rest were healthy.
Listening to the tapes, he counted how often each man used the words I, me, and mine. Comparing his results with the frequency of heart disease, he found that the men who used the first-person pronouns the most often had the highest risk of heart trouble. What\'s more, by following his subjects for several years thereafter, he found that
the more a man habitually talked about himself, the greater the chance he would actually have a heart attack.
Apparently, counting the times a person said \"I\" was an ingenious way to quantify self-absorption. It seems that the less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. Dr. Scherwitz counsels: \"Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.\"(p. 222-223) by John Robbins
(Ballantine Books, 2007)


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