When Choosing Our Thoughts We Choose Our Future

by Jim Clemmer http://www.clemmer.net/excerpts/when_choosing.shtml

... A wise old sage hosted a dinner. Toward the end of the meal, everyone was given fortune cookies and told that they're holding their future in their hands. The guests eagerly opened them to read the words of wisdom they contained. The paper slips inside each cookie were blank.

"Is this a joke?" they asked. "Is our fortune so bleak or so full of emptiness?" "That's up to each of you. The choice is yours." the sage replied. "Many people are eager to have soothsayers predict their future. Fewer are willing to take responsibility for writing their own fortune. Your future is a blank sheet of paper waiting for you to create what is to come." ...