1. Words – If you speak too many words, useless words will come out. Use your two ears to listen, and think three times before speaking. 2. Books – Devote 1% of your income to buying books. While clothes become old and get thrown away, books are worth keeping regardless of how much time passes by. 3. Street Peddlers – Do not seek a bargain from street peddlers. Though money cultivates dependence, if you pay him as much as he requests, you will be giving that peddler the gift of hope and health. 4. TV – Do not waste too much of your time watching television. While one loses self-control through drunkenness and one’s reason through drugs, watching too much television will paralyze and dull your mind. 5. Smile – Practice making smiling a part of your life. It is the cure to all diseases. It gives youth to the old and a child-likeness to youth. 6. Anger – A person’s anger will always make them lose in an argument. A person’s anger will murder them as well as the other person. Because no one will come near you, your anger will leave you stranded in depression and loneliness. 7. Prayer – Prayer can melt steel. It is like a single beam of light in a dark cave 1000 years long. Two hands folded in prayer are stronger than one clenched fist. It helps you find yourself and see the solution to your future. 8. Others – Never turn your back on others. Others are a mirror image of yourself. If you turn away from them or do not smile at them, there is something inside of you that must be reexamined. 9. Love – Love that is expressed with one’s head and mouth have no fragrance. True love consists of understanding, forbearance, tolerance, adaptability, and humility. “It took 70 years for the love from my head to reach my heart.” 10. Stop – Evaluate your life in solitude once in a while. Look into the eyes of your heart…the heart of your heart. See yourself as your life’s protagonist and investigate who you are, where you’re coming from, and where you’re going. Doing this will release you from the fear of death and create room for true life. -- the late senior cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and former Archbishop of Seoul, Su-Hwan Kim |