“Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
– Aesop (620 – 560 BC) Greek author / teacher
How does being “swallowed up by the great chewing complacency” show up in your life, lately?
The Dove and The Ant – Aesop’s Fable (1:42)
Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars – in studio (3:42)
The Third Eye Anja Chakra Meditation (7:25)
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
This is a very ancient proverb originating form south west part of Asian continent. The context of this proverb means that there is a many a time gap between the occurrence of two events and anything can happen in this time gap and things can change in a second. We should never be sure of our success in our life until we have achieved it and should work for it until the last second.
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This proverb has an interesting story associated with it. There was a kingdom in south west Asia where the king had a passion for wine. He cultivated grapes and fermented it to wine. He also had a slave who was a very wise man who could foresee the future. The king asked him to predict the yield of grapes that year. The slave replied that there would be a good yield of grapes.
But the king would not be able to drink a single drop of wine as he would not live to see it. The king wanted to prove him wrong. After the yield of grapes he fermented and made wine out of it. He then sent for the slave and said to him that he has predicted it wrongly. He has the wine and he is going to drink it now. The slave replied that there is many a slip between cup and lip.
The king did not understand it and at the same time he had news that a bear was attacking the grapes garden. He thought that he will go there kill the bear come back and drink the wine. The king fought the bear and was killed in the fight. Thus he died before tasting the wine which came out of his harvest. So within a second things changed drastically and so we should never be sure of our success until the last second.
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This proverb is used to emphasis the power of destiny in our lives. We have the capacity to propose. But it is only God who disposes. MAN PROPOSES BUT ONLY GOD DISPOSES is also a suitable proverb which can be used in place of this one. We can plane many things. At the time of planning and dreaming, many things may seem to be in our favor. But the time is always changing. In the changed environment, the things might not be in our favor.
By remembering that we all must experience periods of growth, and that difficult times are in no way an indication of defective character. They are however, a reminder that we must be aware and willing to grow.
The train in my brain goes off track…always when my spiritual life is..prayer meditation service et al or my sober life is kaput!
The train in my brain goes off track…always when my spiritual life is..prayer meditation service et al or my sober life is kaput!
I have recently a committed to zeeding before 10 a.m.as an effort to texplore the potential for stress free partnerships and strengthen my own spiritual practice daily.
It’s kind of funny – I do my Steps for a while and feel so very much better that I stop going to meetings, praying and meditating. I feel so much better I feel cured! That’s kind of like taking off my seat belt because it saved me from a crash in the past. I need to continue to wear the seat belt – I need to continue to go to meetings, pray and meditate. I may not do it perfectly and I feel best when I stay “in the Program.” How can I lose sight of my Higher Power when my Higher Power never loses sight of me? Woo Hoo!