I found this quote while shuffling through boxes. I LOVE IT! David O McKay was the 9th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was liberal in his thinking and held respect for all opinions be they right or wrong.
This dissertation on radiation speaks to my soul the true nature of the light that illuminates from our beings. We are born with the light of Christ and it is how we live that will determine the brightness of that light and the size of the aura that surrounds each person.
Radiation
There is one responsibility which no man can evade, that responsibility is his personal influence. Man's unconscious influence is the silent, subtle radiation of his personality--the affect his words and action have on others. This radiation is tremendous! Every moment of life man is changing, to a degree, the life of the whole world.
Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other man. He cannot escape for one moment from this radiation of his character, this constant weakening or strengthening of others. Man cannot evade the responsibility by merely saying that it is an unconscious influence.
Man can select the qualities he would permit to be radiated. He can cultivate sweetness, calmness, trust, generosity, truth, justice, loyalty, nobility, and these qualities he will constantly affect the world.
This radiation to which I refer comes from what a person really is, not from what he pretends to be. Every man, by his mere living, is radiating either sympathy, sorrow, morbidness, cynicism, or happiness and hope or any of the hundred other qualities.
Life is a state of radiation and absorption. To exist is to be the recipient of radiation. To exist is to radiate.
