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You do not have to be remembered in history to be great. I'm sure there are thousands of forgotten people who were great.
And remembrance is selective and cultural, and not reflective of relative greatness. For example, I think more people today would recognize Col. Sanders far more readily than Andrew Carnegie. However, I would say that Carnegie was leaps and bounds greater than Sanders.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 07-24-2009 at 02:38 PM..
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