Lesson in Life

Lesson In 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."
>
> "Faith gives us a new vision of the world. Without it we see only the
> darker side of life. We are still slaves. It is faith which liberates
> us and makes us see the Spirit of power and love at work in our
> lives."