Hello friends,
As I was reading through this ebook I came across this quick example of how we all get caught up in the packaging of our lives instead of living our lives. You'll see what I mean... Enjoy!
THE GIFT PACKAGE
- by Dr. Robert Anthony
http://ManifestingSecrets.com
Do you like pretty packages? Most of us do.
I had an interesting thought about pretty packages when I stopped in at one of the very beautiful department stores while I was travelling. I was looking at some merchandise and at the next counter there was a lady looking for a special kind of fancy soap. It was not the kind that one buys normally for one’s own use, which comes three bars to the package and is a very ordinary soap, but each bar is wrapped in transparent paper to make it a tight and shiny fit.
Then these little boxes sit in a cardboard tray and that too is wrapped in a colored transparent covering. Then there was a beautiful paper ribbon and a tiny bunch of imitation violets. Quite a package just for three humble cakes of soap intended to get you clean.
Then I had the shock of my life when the lady serving at the counter smiled very sweetly and asked the woman customer a question that just threw me over.
She asked, “Would you like me to gift wrap it for you?”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Isn’t this just like so many things in our own lives? Here is the soap, perfectly normal, useful soap that becomes wrapped around so many times that we begin to lose sight of the original objective. The original objective in this package was to provide soap with which to clean ourselves. Yet by the time we had it wrapped and wrapped and overwrapped, the original soap becomes completely lost in the issue.
We are far more worried about the packaging than getting clean. In our lives all too often we are so cconcerned with the packaging, the gift wrapping over gift-wrapping, tinsel over tinsel, that we lose sight of the basic material of life. I mean livingness its very self.
All too often we become too concerned in job, home, family, finances, that we lose sight of the very livingness which we are.
You see, underneath all the tinsel of day to day existence you are the living expression of Life itself. If that sounds like a platitude, it isn’t. You are the living expression of life itself. This means that you are the living expression of the power of Creative Intelligence.
Don’t allow the wrapping and the over wrapping of this life to allow you to lose sight of that all important concept because when you recognize yourself to be the living expression of Creative Intelligence, you begin to live life the way you intended, and you have life gloriously beyond your wildest dreams.
This is from the ebook - 50 Ideas That Can Change Your Life - by Dr. Robert Anthony. Get his fr..ee 6 day e-course, "The Million Dollar Secret That Can Change Your Life" at: http://ManifestingSecrets.com
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