By Charles Leyman Kachitsa
The crowd may cheer on a boxer in a boxing match who is fighting well and they would continue to edge him on successfully until he floors his opponent. Once the boxer has floored his opponent he has then to take on different responsibilities apart from being focused all the time.
To start with, the boxing match referee would expect the triumphant boxer to walk away from his floored opposition. The same crowd present who were cheering, will expect the triumphant boxer not to continue hitting his opponent whilst still inactive on the floor, again the referees expectation and rule of the game will dictate same. Of course if a technical knock out is declared, the crowd expects the triumphant boxer to celebrate with sportsmanship humility, even the speech at the end is supposed to show such ‘down-to-earthedness’.
Knowing the limits we have in the game of life just like on any other game in this world, puts one at an advantage to those without such knowledge. In life it is the same expectation on any normal mentally stable human being that they will not celebrate over their colleagues misfortunes, that they will not punch or hit a man or woman that has been already floored by any misfortune especially those closer to them instead of lifting them up in such moments. This is the rule of life.
The quotes this week are from a book that so encourages deep reflection and an understanding of our part in all situations that we may find ourselves in. It advocates right thinking. I am sure that the selected quotes below from this book will enlighten you to one or two life lessons. read and enjoy:
THE MENTAL EQUIVALENT by Emmet Fox
“Whatever enters into your life is but the material expression of some belief in your own mind. The kind of body you have, the kind of home you have, the kind of work you do, the kind of people you meet, are all conditioned by and correspond to the mental concepts you are building. The Bible teaches that from the beginning to end. I am putting the language of metaphysics, the Bible gives it in language of religion, but it is the same Truth.”
“The law of polarity is of course a cosmic law. Everything is produced by two other things. Anything that is ever produced anywhere in the universe is produced by two other things. That is the law of polarity. In the organic world we see it as parenthood. In the inorganic world, the world of physics and chemistry, we see it as the protons and electrons. That is how the material universe is built up; it always takes two things to produce a third. And that is the real ultimate meaning back of the Trinity.”
“Everything that you see or feel on the material plane, whether it is your body, your home, your business, or your city, is but the expression in the concrete of a mental equivalent held by you. Everything in your city is the embodiment of mental equivalents held by the citizens. Everything in your country is the embodiment of mental equivalents held by the people of the country; and the state of the world embodies the mental equivalent of two thousand million people who make up the world.”
“The secret of successful living is to build up the mental equivalent that you want, and get rid of, to expunge, the mental equivalent that you do not want. ——– How do you do it? You build in the mental equivalents by thinking quietly, constantly, and persistently of the kind of thing you want, and by thinking that has two qualities: clearness or definiteness, and interest. If you want to build anything into your life – if you want to bring health, right activity, your true place, inspiration; if you want to bring right companionship, and above all if you want understanding of God – form a mental equivalent of the thing which you want by thinking about it a great deal, by thinking clearly and with interest. Remember clarity and interest; those are the two poles.”