Sitting 213: Brambles and thorns

As we walk through the brambles and thorns of the physical plane we find that things are not so bad as they seem to be and that only our present perception of life is the standard of our happiness and drudgery. Two men walk the same pathway and one of them is quite happy with his lot, knowing that he has everything he needs to complete his life.

The other man is discontented with his life because he does not have this or that which he believes would make his life easier to live or he would seem to be much better than his neighbours.

Both men are equal in earnings and possessions yet one is happy and the other is discontented with his lot. We would point out that to a great many of those on the earth if you were to give them 100 times their present earnings each year, they would, within five years time, be wishing that if only they could get a little bit more then life would be so much better for them.

There are others of course who would survive even if you were to halve or even quarter their earnings. The answer is of course that it is not so much how much you earn but what you expect from this life which matters and whether you are content with having less than your neighbour .