The Enlightened Spirit

Have you ever, at any one time, had the feeling that life is bad, real bad, and you wish you were in another situation? You find life make things difficult for you, work sucks, life sucks, and everything seems to go wrong…

Read the following story… it may change your views about life:

After a conversation between two friends, one said despite taking 2 jobs, he brings back barely above 1K per month, but he is happy as he is.

Now! How can he be as happy as he is, considering he has to skimp his life with the low pay to support a pair of old parents, in-laws, a wife, 2 daughters and the many bills of a household?

He explained that it was through one incident that he saw in India a few years ago when he was really feeling low and touring India after a major setback.

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Around twenty years ago I was living in Seattle and going through hard times. I could not find satisfying work and I found this especially difficult as I had a lot of experience and a Masters degree.

To my shame I was driving a school bus to make ends meet and living with friends. I had lost my apartment. I had been through five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not get the job. I went to the bus barn like a zombie of disappointment.

Later that afternoon, while doing my rounds through a quiet suburban neighborhood, I had an inner wave - like a primal scream, arise from deep inside me and I thought, “Why has my life become so hard? Give me a sign”, I asked… “a physical sign - not some inner voice type of thing.”

Immediately after this internal scream, I pulled the bus over to drop off a little girl and as she passed, she handed me an earring saying I should keep it in case somebody claimed it. The earring was stamped metal, painted black and said ‘BE HAPPY’.

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