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The mayonnaise jar and coffee
A professor stood before his philosophy class and picked up a very large,
empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the
students if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
Then he picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. They rolled
into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if
the jar was full. "Yes."
Then he picked up a box of sand and poured that into the jar. Of course, the
sand filled up all the vacant spaces left. He asked once more if the jar was full.
The students replied unanimously “yes”.
The professor then produced two cups of coffee and poured the entire
contents into the jar, filling the empty space between the sand. The students
laughed.
“Now," said the professor, “I want you to see that this jar is your life. The golf
balls are the important things – God, family, your children, health, friends, the
things that, if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would
be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your
car.
The sand is everything else, the small stuff. “If you put the sand into the jar
first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or golf balls. The same
goes for life, if you spend all your time and energy on the small things, you will
never have room for what is important to you”.
"Pay attention to what is critical to your happiness. Play with your children,
take time for medical checkups, take your partner out to dinner, play another
18 holes. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal”
“Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. The rest is just
sand."
One of the students raised her hand and asked what the coffee represented.
The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked. It just goes to show that no matter
how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a cup of coffee with a
friend."
Thanks to my friend Ash
Life and coffee.
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 coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and
returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic,
glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite -- telling
them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee 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 coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive
and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was
coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you
began eyeing each other's cups."
"Now consider this," he continued... "Life is the coffee. 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 coffee God
has provided us."
Worry
A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress
management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water,
everyone expected they'd be asked the "half empty or half
full" question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired:
"How heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 200g to 600g.
She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends
on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it's not a problem.
If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it
for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralysed. In each case,
the weight of the glass doesn't change, but the longer I hold it,
the heavier it becomes."
She continued, "The stresses and worries in life are like that
glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing
happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt.
And if you think about them all day long, you will feel
paralysed – incapable of doing anything."
Remember to put the glass down.
Clever Analogy
In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in
life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be
something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we
will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would
that be?” The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here.
Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have
other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our
mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we
need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically
excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different
than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one
has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-
delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us
nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she
will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If
Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of
Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not
exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus
and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her
loving voice, calling down from above."
by: Útmutató a Léleknek
Thunder and Lightning
A little girl walked to and from school daily.
Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she
made her daily trek to the primary school. As the afternoon progressed, the winds
whipped up, along with thunder and lightning. The mother of the little girl felt
concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she walked home from school
that afternoon and she, herself, feared for her child’s safety.
Periodically, lightning, like a flaming sword, would cut through the sky, followed by
a crack of thunder. Full of concern, the mother quickly got into her car and drove
along the route to her child’s school.
As she did so, she saw her little girl walking along, but at each flash of lightning,
the child would stop, look up and smile. Another and another were to follow
quickly and with each, the little girl would look at the streak of light and smile.
When the mother’s car drove up beside the child she lowered the window and
called to her.
“What were you doing? Why did you keep stopping?” She asked when her child
was safely in the car.
The child answered, “I was trying to look pretty, God kept taking my picture.”
May God bless you today as you face the storms that come your way.
The Twenty Dollar Bill
A well-known speaker started off
his seminar by holding up a $20
bill. In the room of 200, he
asked. "Who would like this $20
bill?"
Hands started going up. He said,
"I am going to give this $20 to
one of you - but first, let me do
this."
He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then
asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on the
ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He
picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No
matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it
did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.
“Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and
ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the
circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are
worthless; but no matter what happened or what will happen,
you will never lose your value.
“Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are
stillpriceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives
comes, not in what we do or who we know, but by ...WHO WE
ARE.
“You are special - don't ever forget it."
Acts 2:38
An older woman was returning home from Bible study and
interrupted a burglar in the act of robbing her house.
She dropped her bags, pointed at the burglar and shouted,
“ACTS 2:38!”
The man stopped dead in his tracks and didn’t move. The
woman then called 000 to report the incident and the police
arrived in minutes to find the burglar standing in the same
place.
They handcuffed the man and got the woman’s account of what
happened.
The cops then escorted him out of the house and just before
putting him in the car, one of the officers asked, “Why did you
just stand there? Why didn’t you run away when the woman
came in the house? All she did was quote a Bible scripture.”
He looked in total surprise and replied, “Bible scripture??? She
said she had an axe and two 38s!”
Priorities
A man bought a brand-new Ferrari and parked it on the main
road in front of his office so he could show it off to his
colleagues. As he was getting out of the car, a truck comes
speeding too close to the car and takes off the door before
zooming off.
The man gets very angry, takes out his mobile and calls the
police. They arrive immediately and call an ambulance.
The man starts screaming, “My car, my Ferrari!! It’s ruined.
No matter how they repair it, it will never be the same again!”
The police Officer said, “Sir, calm down! You’re so focussed
on your possessions that you don’t notice anything else in
life.”
The man shouts at the officer, “How can you say such a
thing at a time like this?”
The police officer replies, “Didn’t you realise that your arm
was torn off when that truck hit you?”
The man looks down at his arm in horror!
And shouts, “Oh crikey! My Rolex!!”
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The professor then produced two cups of coffeeand
poured the entire contents into the jar, filling the
empty space between the sand. The students
laughed.
“Now," said the professor, “I want you to see that this
jar is your life. The golf balls are the important things
– God, family, your children, health, friends, the things
that, if everything else was lost and only they
remained, your life would be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your
job, your house and your car.
The sand is everything else, the small stuff. “If you put
the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no
room for the pebbles or golf balls. The same goes for
life, if you spend all your time and energy on the small
things, you will never have room for what is important
to you”.
"Pay attention to what is critical to your happiness.
Play with your children, take time for medical
checkups, take your partner out to dinner, play
another 18 holes. There will always be time to clean
the house and fix the disposal”
“Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really
matter. The rest is just sand."
The mayonnaise jar and coffee
A professor stood before his philosophy
class and picked up a very large, empty
mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it
with golf balls. He then asked the
students if the jar was full. They agreed
it was.
Then he picked up a box of pebbles
and poured them into the jar. They
rolled into the open areas between the
golf balls. He then asked the students
again if the jar was full. "Yes."
Then he picked up a box of sand and poured that into the
jar. Of course, the sand filled up all the vacant spaces left.
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students replied
unanimously “yes”.
One of the students
raised her hand and
asked what the coffee
represented. The
professor smiled. “I’m
glad you asked. It just
goes to show that no
matter how full your life
may seem, there’s always
room for a cup of coffee
with a friend."
Thanks to my friend Ash
Top of Page
Life and coffee.
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 coffee, the
professor went to the kitchen and returned
with a large pot of coffee and an assortment
of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal,
some plain looking, some expensive, some
exquisite -- telling them to help themselves
to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee 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 coffee. In
most cases it is just more expensive and in
some cases even hides what we drink. What
all of you really wanted was coffee, not the
cup, but you consciously went for the best
cups... And then you began eyeing each
other's cups."
"Now consider this," he continued... "Life is
the coffee. 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 coffee
God has provided us."
Top of Page
Clever Analogy
In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other:
“Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied,
“Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery.
Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be
later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery.
What kind of life would that be?” The second said, “I don’t
know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will
walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will
have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And
eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord
supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical
cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically
excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and
maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this
physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life,
then why has no one has ever come back from there?
Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is
nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us
nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will
meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother?
That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded
by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her
this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that
She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in
silence and you focus and you really listen, you can
perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice,
calling down from above."
by: Útmutató a Léleknek
Top of Page
Thunder and Lightning
A little girl walked to and from school daily.
Though the weather that morning was questionable and
clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to the primary
school. As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up,
along with thunder and lightning. The mother of the little girl
felt concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she
walked home from school that afternoon and she, herself,
feared for her child’s safety.
Periodically, lightning, like a flaming sword, would cut
through the sky, followed by a crack of thunder. Full of
concern, the mother quickly got into her car and drove along
the route to her child’s school.
As she did so, she saw her little girl walking along, but at
each flash of lightning, the child would stop, look up and
smile. Another and another were to follow quickly and with
each, the little girl would look at the streak of light and smile.
When the mother’s car drove up beside the child she
lowered the window and called to her.
“What were you doing? Why did you keep stopping?” She
asked when her child was safely in the car.
The child answered, “I was trying to look pretty, God kept
taking my picture.”
May God bless you today as you face the storms that come
your way.
Top of Page
The Twenty Dollar Bill
A well-known speaker started off
his seminar by holding up a $20
bill. In the room of 200, he
asked. "Who would like this $20
bill?"
Hands started going up. He said,
"I am going to give this $20 to
one of you - but first, let me do
this."
He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then
asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on the
ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He
picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No
matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it
did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.
“Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and
ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the
circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are
worthless; but no matter what happened or what will happen,
you will never lose your value.
“Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are
stillpriceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives
comes, not in what we do or who we know, but by ...WHO WE
ARE.
“You are special - don't ever forget it."
Acts 2:38
An older woman was returning home from Bible study and
interrupted a burglar in the act of robbing her house.
She dropped her bags, pointed at the burglar and shouted,
“ACTS 2:38!”
The man stopped dead in his tracks and didn’t move. The
woman then called 000 to report the incident and the police
arrived in minutes to find the burglar standing in the same
place.
They handcuffed the man and got the woman’s account of what
happened.
The cops then escorted him out of the house and just before
putting him in the car, one of the officers asked, “Why did you
just stand there? Why didn’t you run away when the woman
came in the house? All she did was quote a Bible scripture.”
He looked in total surprise and replied, “Bible scripture??? She
said she had an axe and two 38s!”
Priorities
A man bought a brand-new Ferrari and parked it on the main
road in front of his office so he could show it off to his
colleagues. As he was getting out of the car, a truck comes
speeding too close to the car and takes off the door before
zooming off.
The man gets very angry, takes out his mobile and calls the
police. They arrive immediately and call an ambulance.
The man starts screaming, “My car, my Ferrari!! It’s ruined.
No matter how they repair it, it will never be the same again!”
The police Officer said, “Sir, calm down! You’re so focussed
on your possessions that you don’t notice anything else in
life.”
The man shouts at the officer, “How can you say such a
thing at a time like this?”
The police officer replies, “Didn’t you realise that your arm
was torn off when that truck hit you?”
The man looks down at his arm in horror!
And shouts, “Oh crikey! My Rolex!!”
