The gambler limped over to his Master and asked, “I was caught cheating yesterday, so my partners beat me up and threw me out of the window. What would you advise me to do?”
The master looked straight through the man and replied, “If I were you, from now on, I would play on the ground floor.”
This startled his students, “Why didn’t you tell him to stop gambling?” they demanded.
“Because I knew he wouldn’t,” replied the Master.
This tale comes from “The Heart of the Enlightened” by Anthony de Mello and says so much about what it takes for real change to happen in our lives.
To change a habit, we need the “want to” (desire), the “what to” (knowledge), and the “how to” (skill), and the first two steps in the “how to” phase are putting on a new pair of glasses from which you view life while throwing away the old tapes that have been filling your head with nonsense.
“We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are.”
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
Romans 12:2, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
