By Dr Charles Leyman Kachitsa
There are so many colours in this world as ever can be but the source is the same. Humans being progressive creatures they are, continue to rediscover new colours that have never been found before. Regardless of how many colours are discovered in this world, the source remains the same and if we look carefully there is only one colour we can point to at the end.
People have studied combining different basic colours to form new ones since time immemorial. Some colour combinations have been discovered by chance without the principal subjects who would have found them intending to do so. One other aspect worthy highlighting is that colours are culturally sensitive. The interpretation of what a particular colour symbolises, differ from one culture to the other. For instance in some cultures white symbolises happiness and merriment while in others it denotes sorrow. Whatever the case, the source of colours is one and the only one in this world.
Colours can teach us a lot if we pay attention. From their baseline and commonality in that the world has some colours that are more prominent across the globe, tells us the common knowledge that the source is one. The different and variant combination that make up new colours inform us on how limitless the power given to humans by the creator is. We only need to acknowledge that there is one source for all things including colours which is ever present.
The quotes this week are a final extraction of lively tips from a book that is rich in advancing such for success in 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
“Now think for a moment. What would happen if one did not feel a sense of guilt for doing wrong? For the person who does not have a feeling of guilt for doing a specific wrong act is often unable to distinguish between right and wrong – or hasn’t been trained to know the difference between right and wrong as regards that act. Or he may not be sane. ——– For many feelings of guilt are inherited. And others are acquired. We know a mental conflict often will develop when inherited emotions and passions are bridled by the society in which one lives and people in one environment may have an entirely different code of ethics that is opposed to the code of those in another. Yet in each instance where the individual has been taught a specific, ethical standard and violates it, he develops a feeeling of guilt.”
“Ahead of you may be disappointments, adversities, and dangers. These are the rocks and hidden shoals past which you must sail on your course. And this you can do when your compass is compensated for variation. For if you are aware of the coral reefs and tides, you can capitalize on each. You can select the environmental influence of the light of a lighthouse or sound of a buoy to steer a course that will bring you towards your destination without serious mishap. —– Now when plotting a course, you must rely upon the accuracy of your compass. Compensating the compass is not an exact science. A necessary safeguard is unceasing watchfulness on the navigator’s part. It is possible, however, to correct a compass very effectively.”
“A guilt feeling can teach you consideration for others. Consideration for others is a quality each of us has to learn to develop. The new-born baby cares little for the comfort and convenience of anyone else. He wants what he wants when he wants it. So right at that point in his development he begins to learn. little by little, that there are others alive, too, and that, to some extent at least, he will have to allow them some consideration. But selfishness is a common human trait, and it lessens in each of us only through development. When we get old enough to understand that such feelings are not good, we feel a twinge of guilt when we indulge in selfishness. This is good, for it causes us to think twice when the occasion arises and we can choose between pleasing ourselves or pleasing others concerned.”
“You are the most important living person. —- ‘Stop and think about yourself: In all the history of the world there was never anyone else exactly like you, and in all the infinity of time to come, there will never be another.’ ——- You are the product of your heredity, environment, physical body, conscious and subconscious mind, experience, and particular position and direction in time and space…. and something more, including powers known and unknown.”
