Dr. Madhu Patel told this story at Satsang:
"There was a professor who was giving his class a test.
He handed each of them a sheet of paper face down and told them not to turn it over until he tells them to.
Then he told them to turn the paper over and write about what they saw...
So the students turned over the paper and they all saw the same thing: a black spot in the middle of the page.
After they had time to write what they saw, he collected the papers and read them. Most of them described the dot, where it was positioned on the paper, what color it was, and not much more than that.
The professor told them that what they wrote is similar to how they look at life: no one described all the white on the paper at all, they all focused on the spot.
We have a lot of these "spots" in our life - which can be conflicts with family, the workplace, anything we are not happy with - and we tend to concentrate only on that.
The white on the paper represents the wonderful life God has given us. We would do well to concentrate on the white part and not the spots. Perhaps our anxiety and worries would greatly decrease.
This is a beautiful quote I always see at my work:
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