Much of your pain is self-chosen - 1 Minute Reading

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

                                                            ~Kahlil Gibran (from The Prophet)

Belief ~ 1 Minute Reading

Once a person is riding his bike down the hill, he lost his balance and was falling into the valley.He prayed to god to save him. His shirt collar caught to one tree branch and he was hanging in air. He saw down and was afraid as there was a big valley below him.
Now he prayed to god again, ‘Oh god please save me’.
This time he heard voice of god, ‘son, relieve your shirt from the tree and let yourself into valley, I will see some other way to save you’ .

The person started shouting ‘Anyone there? Please help meeee…. ’  :-)

What about you?