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Wife to husband whose face is buried in the newspaper: "Has it ever occurred to you that there might be more to life than what's going on in the world?"
Most people love humanity. It's the person next door they cannot stand.
There was a man who was busy building a home for himself. He wanted it to be the nicest, cosiest home in the world.
Someone came to him to ask for help because the world was on fire. But it was his home he was interested in, not the world.
When finally he finished his home, he found he did not have a planet to put it on.
The present moment is never unbearable if you live in it fully. What is unbearable is to have your body here at 10.00am and your mind at 6.00pm; your body in Bombay and your mind in San Francisco.
The clock master was about to fix the pendulum of a clock when, to his surprise, he heard the pendulum speak.
"Please, sir, leave me alone," the pendulum pleaded. "It will be an act of kindness on your part. Think of the number of times I will have to tick day and night. So many times each minute, sixty minutes an hour, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days a year. For year upon year....millions of ticks. I could never do it!"
But the clock master answered wisely, "Don't think of the future. Just do one tick at a time and you will enjoy every tick for the rest of your life."
And that is exactly what the pendulum decided to do. It is still ticking merrily away.
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