Even before you admire its beauty, even before you feel its fragrance all around it, the first thing you go on to do is to pluck it or ask its owner if he could lend you a branch of it.
Its the same feeling when you see a beautiful house, a beautiful girl, a person with good income,we just cant stop thinking of possessing the best things in the world.
And at last do we possess anything? We must all leave this world just like Alexander the great did...with our palms unclutched! we cant take with us anything! So why possess?
Why not just enjoy its beauty, why not just live and let live!
Its this quality of wanting to possess that brings in all sorrows in our lives.
Think of it -- if you never wished to have that chair your manager is on, would you not have been happier !
If you had not wished her to be your girlfriend wouldn't you still have been friends and been happy friends!
Had you not wished to posses that gold which was making your neighbor look so pretty - wouldn't you have been pretty and happy both!
Had you not thought of parenting only one child but parenting any child in an orphanage and around the world you wouldn't have been sad for the low marks your son/daughter got for his semester! You would have found happiness in that- so many a children are learning, so many are loving you! you mean so much to so many!
Stop trying to possess! Understand there is nothing you can possess! You can only be the caretaker of something until its passed on to the next!
Stop possessing and the world is yours! or Be possessed and have nothing!
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