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the cups
Size: Large, Medium, Small Thu Aug 7, 08 10:52 PM | Category: All
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 A professor of a group of students invited some students to his house for a lecture of sorts. He offers the class coffee as any host would, and graciously the students accept the refreshment. When the professor returns with the coffee and cups he places them on the table and leaves the students to serve themselves. Instead of using just traditional coffee mugs the teacher sets out a variety of cups with the caraffe- some of crystal, some of glass, china, some decorated, others plain, some even only disposeable plastics of a variety. When all of the students had helped themseves to the cups and coffee the teacher began by pointing out how all of the plain and undecorated, and even the mugs were left on the table unused whilst all of the students had all picked the more beautiful and exquisite cups to drink their coffee from. While drinking their coffee the class even looked at the other students cups and envied their beautiful choices of cup- when they had already made an admirable choice for their own drinks .When done serving the drinks he explained to the students how they had chosen the most elaborate cups to drink from although they were not necessary, that is what they had chosen. Life represents the coffee in this experiment, and the cups the vessels from which we drink it. Although everyone only needed a cup, they wanted the cups that were more appealing to the eye, but not necessary to drink the coffee. the Coffee is life-- and the cups were just the vessels from which we drink it......no matter what they look like.

 

 

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this attitude is so hard to keep--- good luck

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sv_iv (Svetlana) Tue Aug 12, 08 09:15 AM

good post... voted

If you want to change the world, start by changing yourself
monti_84 Tue Aug 12, 08 04:17 PM

nice lesson...

"To define is to limit" Oscar Wilde
bardus Fri Aug 15, 08 05:38 PM

judge not the exterior, the interior is what counts



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