Thoughts play a very important role in one’s life thoughts can make us or break us. Thoughts can be positive or negative it’s up to us to choose a positive thought over a negative thought.
Life is filled with ups and downs all of us have to go through a tough phase in one’s life it’s up to us how we deal with it.
Thoughts are highly potent ,all of us have a great strength within us ,its time folks to get up and say you can .we can start viewing things from brighter side for example :It’s a boring day this can be changed It’s a wonderful day .when we start converting the negative thought into a positive thought we can make a lot of difference and our life will start brimming with positivity .
Potatoes, Eggs, and Coffee Beans
Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot.
He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the boiled eggs out and placed them in a bowl.
He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?”
“Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer,” he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity– the boiling water.
However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which are you,” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean? “
Moral: In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is what happens within us.
Which one are you?
The spiritual path is one that leads us to firsthand experience of God. The practice that leads us there is meditation. To meditate properly, one need to still one’s mind so no thoughts intervene with our focus of gazing within. To be successful, we need to put in the time and have a positive attitude to keep practicing day after day. A positive attitude will prevent us from giving up.
Negative thinking brings thoughts of sadness, anger, depression, disillusionment, or despair. Once we are in that cycle, it is hard to emerge. When we become negative, we may think meditating is useless and that we may never reach our goal. How can we keep our thoughts positive, especially when faced with so many difficult challenges in life?
As we go through life, we have choices to make. When we need to use our mind for work and communication, we can also use it for keeping our thoughts positive or negative. If we keep them negative, we slow down and when we keep them positive, we progress, both in spiritual and worldly domains. We cannot accomplish our best work when we are weighed down with negativity. But if we are positive, we can move forward spiritually and in the mundane sphere. We should watch our thoughts as we go about our day. Let us awake each day and put positive thoughts in front of us, leaving negative thoughts behind. Let us forget all the negative things people have said or done to us.
When we wake up in the morning and meet our family, let us keep positive thoughts before us. When we go to work, let us focus on the positive things people do and say. Let us overlook any negativity that happens. In this way, we can move forward spiritually and also in the mundane sphere of life. We will feel better physically and mentally because we are not stressed by the negativity. We will not be burdened with thoughts of anger and vengeance. We can sail through life happily and peacefully.
Optimism is the ability to see the bright side of the situation and live as if that would happen. Too many of us are pessimists. We tend to look at the bleak side of everything. People who are pessimistic tend to avoid trying things that could lead to their success. They already predetermine that it cannot happen and they do not even try to take the necessary steps towards their chosen goal.
Change your thoughts and changes the world, Life is beautiful, have a positive approach and reach the pinnacle of success.