By Dr Charles Leyman Kachitsa
When young the advice given was to keep discipline during the sacred time of diner. Such discipline included choosing the words to say and not to shout when taking food as a family and sometimes with guests. Means any form of argument would be taboo during the time people sit to eat one of the most important meal of the day. Any provocation and disagreement with raised voices including shouting would have to wait. If at all there are no any issue worthy to be put forward in uplifting others, taking the meal in quiet solitude would always be recommended.
At a higher level, diner is used for negotiations and to cement international relations such as on state banquets where a national head of state entertains another countries head to a meal. while at the lower level in some communities marriage negotiations are done after and or during meals. In fact the world over a wedding ceremony is commonly complete only when it includes a meal of some sort regardless of the food quantity and number of guests partaking it.
The above attests to the known fact that food is spirit. It has to be taken seriously with that in mind, otherwise where you see for instance at market places, some people cooking a meal casually, stop them. You need to tell them that in cooking meals those doing that should have their minds fully on the task as well as that they should do it happily. Cooking also require taking away all bad thoughts you may have since such time is a sacred time as you prepare that which nourishes the human spirit. This extends to when planting crops to be used as food, do it happily, take away all the bad and evil thought knowing food is spirit. No wonder the first sin came through food!
The quotes this week is a continuation of extraction from a book that helps you not only realize but also utilize the power of your mental attitude by tapping into the deep recesses of your personality, when you read its content to get some principles of life. I am sure the listed quotations from the book listed below will enlighten you to one or two life lessons. Read and enjoy:
SUCCESS THROUGH A POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Hill
“Not all problems of one’s personal life, however, are of so a deep and penetrating a nature. Many times all that it takes to meet an immediate problem is quick thinking, adaptability and taking a second look at the situation which is causing the problem. It often takes only one idea followed by action, to turn failure into success.”
“The most common physical weaknesses of the eye are two opposite extremes – nearsightedness and farsightedness. These are the major distortions of mental vision, too. —- The person who is mentally nearsighted is apt to overlook objects and possibilities that are distant. He pays attention only to the problems immediately at hand and is blind to the opportunities that could be his by thinking and planning in terms of the future. You are nearsighted if you do not make plans, form objectives, and lay the foundation for the future. —– on the other hand, the mentally farsighted person is apt to overlook possibilities that are right before him. He does not see the opportunities at hand. He sees only a dream-world of the future, unrelated to the present. He wants to start at the top rather than move up step by step – and he does not recognize that the only job where you can start at the top is the job of digging a hole.”
“Time and again we see how men and women have become successful after they learned to apply mental perception. The ability to see much more than the physical process of taking light rays through the retina of the eye. It is the skill of interpreting what you see and applying the interpretation to your life and the lives of others. —– Learning to see will bring to you opportunities that you never dreamed existed. However, there is more to success ….. than learning mental perception. You must also learn to act on what you learn. Action is important because through action you get things done.”
” How do you make the secret of getting things done a part of your life? By habit. And you develop habit through repetition. ‘Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny,’ said the great psychologist and philosopher William Jones. He was saying that you are what your habits make you. And you can choose your habits. You can develop any habit you wish when you use the self-starter.”
