SHORT NOTES 1. It's important we remember that we evolved out of animal nature. This is the time to enjoy our human nature and it is possible only if we are conscious and in the present. Rotary is that organisation that gives us this. 2. More than 70% of our mental ailments are chronic. This means that they are created within your mind. If you are ethical in whatever you do, you will achieve the balance within yourself. 3.1f your fundamentals of Rotary training go wrong, you will be unfit to be called a human being. 4.The basis of Rotary service is to be absolutely intense and relaxed at the same time. 5. If everything becomes still within you for just two minutes everyday, you will become a healthy person and it will reflect in your thought, word and deed. Man is ill because he does not know how to be still 6. Part of the modern ideology of service is to assume that empathy is the most important factor. Actually it is ethics which is the most important factor for only a person with high ethical standards can really feel for others. 7. Fellowship and intimacy in Rotary without commitment to service and ethics leads to disorganization of the member and in turn to disorganization of the club. 8. Paul Harris has inspired Rotarians to lead a meaningful life and whenever inspiration was needed his words seemed to soothe the aching soul and give us a new direction in life for service. 9. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. You only give up the body. If you are unethical person before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. When you reincarnate, you will bring the same nature with you. To change you have to make an effort and this world is the place to doit. 10.To be a successful person, you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. Rotary gives you the opportunity to believe in your capabilities to do great work.