The Cup Of Life - Mother Theresa - Acknowledgement Gita Venkat

Dear Friends,

All of you, whoever were visiting this blog regularly earlier, must have wondered at times what happened to its own inspiration to survive, and, provide others looking for inspiration, ideas and courage.... for this blog, sort of, went into a long period of hibernation since October 2007 ...... the reasons are many .... no point in elaborating them here and wasting your valuable time.

I was thinking this morning, (after in a chat with a new friend from Delhi, I asked her to have a look at the collections I assimilated here), how dear really is this blog to me? And, how unfaithful I had been towards it ... I made a resolution in my mind ... from October 2008 this blog will be bounce back to life .... another thought then hit me, more powerfully...why wait another week or so ...what is so sacrosanct about October 1.... the sun that day will also rise in the East and set on the Western Horizon.... there will be a morning following the night before and there will be a night to follow after.... so why not "Resumption" today as well ..... when Nature makes no differentiation of cycles of time in its frame of a day counted in 24 hours .....

So Friends with great pleasure on the eve of my trip out of town.... I am initiating the "REVIVAL" of the blog with an anecdote by none less than Mother Theresa....
It speaks of a simple way we can remain happy and content....

Gita, dear, thanks again for sharing this unique simple sermon.

With Best Wishes,

Ashis Sen

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The Cup of Life

A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer. The lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.

The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for themselves. When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.



What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the better cups."

"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."

"If we only concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to enjoy/taste the water in it."

-Mother Teresa