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All Things Have Some Goodness In Them

There is a legendary spiritual teaching that says everything is neither good nor bad; in and of themselves they are void. Christian teachings say “All things can work for the good for those who trust in the Lord”. Buddhist teachings say “There is Emptiness in All Things”.

Both eastern and western views are the same idea, that things of themselves do not contain goodness or badness, but it is only you and me who bring our ideas of goodness or badness to the table through our perception of what we see happening around us.

When we get into a car wreck it seems very bad to us. But for the auto shop who will receive work to repair our car, it will be a good thing; especially to the auto shop owner’s family who may be struggling to make ends meet and having a hard time putting food on the table for their children. Then all of a sudden you come in with a completely wrecked car and have to pay him $6,000 to make it new. Your wrecked car is a blessing to this family.

See, to you the wreck was a problem, but to someone else the same situation is a blessing. The event, then, in and of itself cannot be called good or bad. The event contains the potential for both being good and being bad depending upon the people who look at the situation and the perspective they bring to it.

Why does any of this matter? It matters because if we can learn to look at every situation as having some good component then you can discover how to be happy more often. This allows me to stop myself just before I get angry at people who annoy me. It makes me stop, when a problem arises and instead of feeling like a victim, I stop and ask myself what good can come of this difficult situation. And almost always, I think of something that could happen good because of it.

In this way I learn to transform difficult situations into better ones, and turn anger into happier thoughts, and turn stress into less stressful feelings. I’m sure not perfect, not by any stretch of the imagination. But, I’ve found that I can use this technique to live a happier and less stressful life. And when I do, everyone around me magically begins to be nicer to me because of it.

Posting By:
Paul McCormick
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