Don't Change Your Nature

                          

Don't Change Your Nature

A very old man used to meditate early every morning under a large tree on the bank of the Ganges River in India. One morning he saw a scorpion flailing helplessly in the strong current of the river, tangled in a complex network of tree roots.

The old man immediately reached out to rescue the drowning scorpion.
The panicked animal tried to sting him, but the man persisted. For several long minutes his hand darted back and forth, evading the scorpion's deadly stinger as he tried to rescue it.

A passerby saw the struggle and called out. "Hey, old man, what's wrong with you? You're going to get yourself killed. Just let it go".

The man sat back and looked calmly into the stranger's eyes. "Friend, " he said. "It is the nature of the scorpion to sting. It is my nature to save the helpless. I do not expect him to change his nature to suit me. Nor will I change my nature to suit him".

It is a confident person who stays true to their own nature when being pressured to change.

Love,

Camber Hill.

Prayer To Start Your Day

 

                       Camber's Awesome Prayer

We have assured the indwelling Self that it can be anything it accepts and has faith in, and we are about to develop in it the habit of choosing only those thoughts and ideas that will constructively add good unto it.

We are teaching ourselves to accept only good….. We are deliberately compelling ourselves to accept all love, all kindness, all hope, all joy, all expansion, all abundance and all health, all vigor.

We are deliberately compelling ourselves to reject all suffering, all sorrow, all depression, all morbidness, all inferiority, all aches and pains.

We are saying nothing is true but the great and the good and the beautiful, only these will we add unto ourselves.