tendency to ‘escape’ must feel exhilirating, but was it the content or the appearance - not seen right and not projected right - is what gets to people and make them lose the real sense of sight?
any good thoughts are welcome.
Re: looking at the content instead of the appearance
tendency to 'escape' must feel exhilirating, but was it the content or the appearance - not seen right and not projected right - is what gets to people and make them lose the real sense of sight?
any good thoughts are welcome.
Here is a good example of importance of content instead of appearance
***Its the Coffee Cup!
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 the 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 normal for you
to
want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your
problems
and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the
coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases
even
hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you
consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each
other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money
and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and
contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change
the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the
cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!..:)
Re: looking at the content instead of the appearance
coffee is liquid.
it is to be brought to a certain temperature **
*coffee is not nourishing by itself *
**it needs milk and it needs some sugar
*brewing is a process through which coffee becomes stronger, but over a long time of brewing , *
*it either becomes extremely bitter or totally evaporates. *
*it's appearance and its content are both transparent. *
*a human being's are not until it proves itself in its qualities, without hiding anything. *
a human being is clay. **
*the clay has a thinking mind, *
*a feeling heart *
*and a mobile body *
*the anology of brewing to some thing that a thinking and feeling human being - especially a female, goes through is far more reactive, and far more compelling. *
*anguish is one mix of feeling that can lead to pretty bad endings *
*forgetting is out of question *
*forgiving is out of the books *
*fore saking is unacceptable *
*suffering the insufferable - will eventually bring the anguish to either a health felt prayer *
**until it is heard
or a cycle of fate that comes full circle for all elements, all agencies, that evolked the anguish in the first place. **
*so why don't you have your coffee, and let me soak myself in my anguish. *
*coffee is better, in your situation. *
*not in mine. *
**although, if i could, i would make & serve the best coffee.
Re: looking at the content instead of the appearance
*** assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, *** crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the 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. **
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the **coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases ** even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each **other's cups. **
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.
*** Sometimes, by concentrating only on the*** cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
**God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!..:) **
This example is talking about experiencing the Contents which is coffee and not the nice looking cups for their appearance alone.