Teaching story
CHANGING OUR VISION
Once, a wealthy man was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted many physicians and medical experts, consumed heavy loads of drugs, and was given hundreds of injections. But the ache persisted with more vigour than before.
At last, a monk who was supposed to be an expert in treating such patients was called for by the suffering man. The monk understood his problem and said that for some time he should concentrate only on green colours and not let his eyes fall on any other colours. It was a strange prescription, but he was desperate and decided to try it.
The millionaire got together a group of painters and purchased barrels of green paint and directed that every object his eye was likely to fall on, be painted green, just as the monk had suggested. When the monk came to visit him after a few days, the millionaire's servants ran with buckets of green paint and poured it on him since he was in red dress, lest their master see any other colour and his eye ache would come back. Hearing this, the monk laughed and said, "If only you had purchased a pair of green spectacles, worth just a few dollars, you could have saved these walls and trees and pots and all other articles as well as a large share of your fortune. You cannot paint the world green."
If we change our vision, the world will appear accordingly. It is foolish to shape the world; instead, we should change ourselves first.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
This, I know
• Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
• Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
• Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end.
• Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
• What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Inspiration
DECIDE TO DREAM
Decide to widely open the gates
Of your wonderful mind, heart and soul.
Let flow in the dreams of God,
Of the angels, saints, prophets and sages.
Give birth and let out into the world the dreams
Of your own unique, unrepeatable Cosmic Being.
If not born for any other purpose,
Be born to dream, be born to love
Be born to fashion a better world.
Dreams and dreamers never die.
From heaven you will see your dreams come true.
You will reincarnate, inspire and energise new dreamers.
The dreams of our beautiful Planet of Dreams will never die
Until we become the paradise we were always meant to be
And are about to joyfully become.
—Robert Muller
ONE-MINUTE WISDOM
ALWAYS THE BEGINNING
Anthony, a middle-aged monk, was on a pilgrimage, visiting Benedict his good friend, a monk in another country. Arriving at the monastery, Benedict, a gracious host and friend, welcomed Anthony, and as they started climbing a long flight of steps, said, “We have no elevators here. I apologise for the many steps we have to climb to get to your room.”
Anthony, with a smile and a twinkle in his eye, answered, “There are many steps in my home monastery too.” Then he added, “I count them as I climb. This is how I count them—one, one, one . . . !” It is always the beginning.
—Anonymous
Just for laughs
THE AFTERLIFE
The pastor was talking to a group of young children about being good and going to heaven. At the end of his talk, he asked, “Where do you want to go?”
“Heaven!” cried out little Suzy.
“And what do you have to be to get there?” asked the preacher.
“Six feet under!” yelled little Tommy.
Quote
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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