ENJOY THE TEA
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ENJOY THE TEA
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 a cup of tea, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of tea and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the tea.
When all the students had a cup of tea 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 tea in most cases, just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was tea, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... and then began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the tea; 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 tea God has provided us"
God brews the tea, not the cups.... enjoy your tea.
(I didn't write this, it was an e-mail I received today, but it is so appropriate for us in this stress-out world of ours.)-- Minnie
ENJOY THE TEA
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 a cup of tea, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of tea and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the tea.
When all the students had a cup of tea 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 tea in most cases, just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was tea, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... and then began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the tea; 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 tea God has provided us"
God brews the tea, not the cups.... enjoy your tea.
(I didn't write this, it was an e-mail I received today, but it is so appropriate for us in this stress-out world of ours.)-- Minnie
posted by Dr. Minnie at 9:21 AM
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