Saturday story from Siva (9): The Story of consciousness and character

Hi,

While the Teachers’ Day is celebrated on different dates in different countries, we in India celebrate it tomorrow, the 5th Sep, which is birthday of Dr S. Radhakrishnan, a great teacher, philosopher and also the 2nd President of India. It is our teachers at early school and also in colleges who sow the seeds of good character and moral values in us through many of those stories as well as their real life experiences. Here goes the story, “A Penny’s Worth of Character” written by Jesse Hilton Stuart (1907-1984), who was a great teacher and also a short story writer. 
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A Penny's Worth of Character

by Jesse Hilton Stuart
Shan Shelton is going to the store for his mother. If he had a dime, he could buy his favourite treat, a chocolate bar and a lemon soda pop.

Shan knows that Mr. Conley, the storekeeper, pays a penny each for good used paper sacks returned to the store. There are ten sacks at home, but Shan's mother tells him to take only nine to Mr. Conley, because the tenth sack has a hole in it. Shan wants a chocolate bar and a lemon soda pop so much, he disobeys his mother and takes the tenth sack. He carries the sack with the hole in it concealed among the nine good sacks, hoping Mr. Conley won't notice it.

Mr. Conley overlooks it, but Shan, eating his chocolate bar and drinking his lemon soda pop, discovers something is wrong inside him and all around him.
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1. Live your life as though your every act would become a universal law.
2. Carry yourself as though everyone is watching you even though no one is watching you.
3. One of the things we know about men and women of great character is that they set very high standards for themselves. And the standards they set for themselves are higher than those anyone else will set for them.
4. They imagine that they are being watched in cameras everywhere, and they conduct themselves as though they were the kind of people they would like to be.
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At the end, consciousness prevails. There exists an opportunity to become from good to great. All that one may have to do is to listen to one's own consciousness and follow its prescription to greatness. As a reinforcement of the great message pronounced by Jesse Stuart, I would like to share with you the means by which one could practice universal maxim suggested by Brian Tracy, another great teacher as given below: 
"I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the teacher is immortal." 
_ Jesse Stuart

Expressing gratitude to all of my teachers, 

With love and regards,

Siva