Saturday, March 01, 2008
Coffee anyone....
A friend of mine recently sent this to me. It has a nice analogy that reminds us to focus on what matters most.
Enjoy Life
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving
behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, sometimes that is the source of your problems and stress.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.
Now if Life is coffee, then money, position, etc. are the cups.
They are just containers to hold Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
Don't let the cups distract you... Enjoy the coffee instead.
Enjoy Life
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving
behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, sometimes that is the source of your problems and stress.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.
Now if Life is coffee, then money, position, etc. are the cups.
They are just containers to hold Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
Don't let the cups distract you... Enjoy the coffee instead.
Labels: life
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Welcome what comes your way
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
-Henry David Thoreau
What a beautiful proverb. Wisdom for life conveyed simply.
I love metaphors, such a powerful way to convey a message.
Accept life now as is, with enthusiasm and smile and things would be just fine.
-Henry David Thoreau
What a beautiful proverb. Wisdom for life conveyed simply.
I love metaphors, such a powerful way to convey a message.
Accept life now as is, with enthusiasm and smile and things would be just fine.
Labels: acceptance, life, metaphor, now, proverb
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