A Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative.

Ebenezer MacTavish was known to be the grumpiest farmer in the neighborhood.
One year when MacTavish’s apple crop was exceptionally good,

A neighbor was confident that he would not complain.

I’ll bet you are happy with your apple crop,” said the neighbor,

 Just about every one of them is perfect apple.”

”I suppose they are alright,” replied MacTavish grudgingly,”

But what am I going to do?

I have got no rotten ones to feed to my pigs.”

That is the tendency of the negative mind.

 Even in paradise you will find so many wrong things

That the paradise will not be a paradise with the negative mind;

 It will become a hell.

Psychologically speaking, the negative mind is hell and the positive mind is heaven.

Try to find the positive,

The beautiful,

 And you will be surrounded with the positive,

The beautiful and the blissful.

 I am not saying that there are not wrong things in the world;

I am not saying that there are not thorns in the rosebush.

 It is a question of our emphasis.

 If you look at the roses you will be so ecstatic

That who cares about the thorns.

But if you look only at the thorns –

 And not only look, but count them –

You are going to have bloody fingers,

And in that pain you will forget all about roses.

A Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative.

 Now it is your choice which side you want to be – in heaven or in hell.

Wherever you want to be,

 Try to find it in your life every moment.

And whenever you have found something positive,

Pour all your attention and all your love on it.

 That will make it grow; that will make it

More and more important in your life,

More and more taking the space of your being.

Remain absolutely indifferent about the negative.

 I am not saying it is not there;

It is there because a few people need it.

A few people are so much in love with the negative that

 If there is no negative they will die out of sheer agony:

 Now there are roses and no thorns, what am I going to do?

The negative is not your imagination,

 Neither is the positive your imagination.

They both are there absolutely balanced.

It is up to you to choose.

You live in a world, in an existence which has both.

Out of sheer necessity it needs balance in opposite polarities.

 But you need not be worried about that which makes you miserable.

Choose the flowers and leave the thorns......Neelanjan