Indulge Yourself, Not Institutions

via Robert Paterson's Weblog: Indulgences - The Reformation - Our Time

We "know" that most aspects of our being healthy are in the domain of the personal and the community. If we have the right mindset, eat and do the best things, have healthy relationships we will be healthy. Our health is a personal matter within us and amongst our immediate community. But we mainly absolve our own personal responsibility for our own health and buy indulgences from the healthcare system. We prefer to buy a drug from a health priest than change our behaviour.

Until the age of 6, we learn to walk, talk, socialize and to understand our world. There is no time after where we learn so much. Our teachers are our parents and our community. Yet from the age of 6 onwards, we give up our personal responsibility to learn and we buy indulgences from the education system. We prefer to buy a certificate from an education priest than take responsibility for our own learning.

Our great aim to support ourselves economically in life is to get a job. Jobs are so fixed in our minds that we forget that until 150 years ago they hardly existed. Instead of learning real skills that have value and instead of forming associations with others that have value based on the relationships themselves, we become priests ourselves in a vast indulgence world where we sell the promise of happiness in the hope that if people consume enough they will find salvation.

Time my friends to see again the simple but terrible truth that Luther saw in his own time. No institution can intermediate the real needs of man either in life or after life. Our only hope is to understand how to meet ourselves and our God face to face.

Enjoy The Coffee, not the cup !!!

via Shrikant’s Blog » Blog Archive » Enjoy The Coffee !!!

Group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work life

Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer 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, 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 better cups and are eyeing each other’s cups.”

“Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change.” “Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”

So folks, don’t let the cups drive you…enjoy the coffee instead

Spending quality time

Life is like 6 sides of a dice. There is no seventh side. You have to choose where, how and with whom you spend those 6 sides…and how much time you spend on each side."

[via Decker Marketing]