Friday, June 23, 2006

Changing Ourselves

A traveler once asked a shepherd: "How do you think the weather will be today?"

The shepherd answered: "It will be the weather that I like."

The traveler asked: "How can you say that, how do you know it will be what you like?"

Instead of always trying to get only things that I like, I decided that it is wiser to like whatever things I get. So, I always like the weather I get."

The key to happiness is inside. Just as a picture does not paint itself, it must be the artist with his brush that paints it. If he dips the brush in green, he cannot expect blue to appear on the canvas, neither should he blame the brush. Whatever color he applies, that will appear to him.

So too should this truth be to the canvas of our lives:

"I am the one who makes my day: I make my own happiness and misery: I can make either darkness or light; from within I create it."

Instead of trying to change things, especially the things that we have no control of; try changing ourselves instead. Everything will remain as status quo until we change our attitude towards it or when we decide to do something different.

Apply this truth and then see what happens.