Ensayo De Ingles

Learning to be Grateful for the Good Fortune of Others
"Every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. If weparticipate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to participate in the effect." - Gary Zukav (The Seat of the Soul). Its a matter of cause and effect. A universal truth that reminds us that; "Forevery action, there is an equal and opposite reaction," Newton's Third Law of Motion. You can't touch without being touched. We do things. We think. We feel. At the root of each of these, there areintentions. Websters defines intentions as "purpose or attitude toward the effect of one's actions".
At the root of intention is attitude. Attitude drives purpose, and purpose brings the words andactions that are 'measurable'. What we see and hear and read and say are the surface actions. They are the natural outgrowth of attitude. The challenge is to pay close attention to our intentions. If thelaw of cause and effect applies to our intentions, and it does, then if we act with good and joyous intentions, good and joyous effects will follow. If we participate in the cause, we will alsoparticipate in the effect.
When you grasp the full potential of this, you immediately take stock of your own attitudes and intentions. We are conditioned from an early age to compete and to fear thatanother's gain means our loss. It happens with grades in school, games on the playground, competition for jobs and mates and recognition. Competition is not inherently bad. Challenge and striving forsuccess are not bad. What is bad, though, is a feeling of fear or lack or resentment that another will win and we will lose.
It is common for people to secretly rejoice at another's failure, or to bejealous of or resent another's success. The basis of these feelings is fear, or the feeling that when someone else gains, there is 'less' for me. These feelings come from the perspective that the...