LIFE LESSONS WITH KAYCEE

 Let us do a little review of what we have learnt: 1. we tried to identify what we are worried about https://blissfullivingandlearning.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-do-you-worry-about.html 2. we looked at what we can do to get our minds off worries https://blissfullivingandlearning.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-do-you-do-to-get-your-mind-off.html 3. we identified how living in the moment is the best way to live https://blissfullivingandlearning.blogspot.com/2020/04/do-you-put-off-living-in-present-to.html 4. we saw how worry can lead to sickness and diseases https://blissfullivingandlearning.blogspot.com/2020/04/do-you-know-what-worry-can-do-to-you.html 5. we talked about how it is better to analyse your worry by writing down what you are worried about, what you can do about it, what you will do about it and when you will start doing it https://blissfullivingandlearning.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-can-you-do-about-your-worries.html 6. we saw how keeping busy can save us from despair https:/...

Here is an interesting and stimulating story of a woman called Thelma Thompson. “During the war,” she said, as she told of her experience, “my husband was stationed at an army training camp near the Mojave Desert, in California. I went to live there in order to be near him. I hated the place. I loathed it. I had never before been so miserable. My husband was ordered out on maneuvers in the Mojave Desert, and I was left in a tiny shack alone. The heat was unbearable- 125 degrees in the shade of a cactus. Not a soul to talk to. The wind blew incessantly and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were filled with sand, sand, sand! “I was so utterly wretched, so sorry for myself, that I wrote to my parents, I told them I was giving up and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I would rather go to jail! My father answered my letter with just two lines- two lines that will always sing in my memory- two lines that completely altered my life: Two men...

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind. “The only reason you try to be someone you are not when you are around certain people is, because you think they are better than you. Stop that comparison. Be yourself.” A certain daughter of a streetcar conductor had to learn that lesson the hard way. She longed to be a singer. But her face was her misfortune. She had a large mouth and protruding buck teeth. When she first sang in public, she tried to pull down her upper lip to cover her teeth. She tried to act “glamorous.” The result? She made herself ridiculous. She was headed for failure. However, there was a man in this night club who heard the girl sing and thought she had talent. “See here,” he said bluntly, “I’ve been watching your performance and I know what it is you’re trying to hide. You’re ashamed of your teeth!” the girl was embarrassed, but the man continued, “what of it? Is there any particular crime...

If you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything About ninety per cent of the things in our lives are right and about ten per cent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ninety percent that are right and ignore the ten per cent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ten percent that are wrong and ignore the ninety per cent that are glorious. Would you sell both your eyes for a billion dollars? What would you take for your two legs? Your hands? Your hearing? Your children? Your family? Add up your assets, and you will find that you won’t sell what you have for all the gold ever amassed by the Rockefellers, the Fords and the Morgans combined. But do we appreciate all this? Ah, no. As Schopenhauer said: “We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.” Yes, the tendency to “...

An angry man is always full of poison. Do not waste some of your few remaining years in bitterness and resentment over past issues. Do not make the human and distressing mistake of expecting gratitude. Christ helped ten lepers in one afternoon, but only one stopped to thank him.   Luke 17: 11-19 11  Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. 12  As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance 13  and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!” 14  When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed. 15  One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. 16  He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan. 17  Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18  Has no one returned to give praise t...