A Slice Of Life

2008-01-15T12:53:20-08:00

Charles Taylor

2007-12-07T15:38:50-08:00

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired.

During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups -porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite -
telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said:

"Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each others cups.

Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and
position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life.

The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us.

God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups. The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate .

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Sometime we forget not to let life' problems steal our joy

inspiratrational

2007-07-10T18:19:10-07:00

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder,no longer marvel is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed . It was the experience of mystery--- even if mixed with fear that engender religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we can not penetrate, our perception of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty ,which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds It is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures , or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would Iwant to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts, I an satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the exiting world, togather with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny,of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

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A new begining

2006-11-29T22:17:27-08:00

Hello and welcome to charlesrt web blog . this blog is a new venture for me . I am interested in Music, spirituality,and Business . I am not sure what will be the major theme there yet, I may need more than one blog . One section will be used to post inspirational quotes. my hope is that it will be a place for visitors and me to find uplifting words to help keep us on the path of personal growth and development, and lead us along the path of compassion and love for our fellow man.