Nothing Good Or Bad...

Handmade luxury chocolates - Sunday morning market in Old Cromwell, NZ.

After supper tonight - 8.30ish -   my husband makes himself a cup of strong black expresso coffee.

In the past I would have said,

You're mad, you'll never sleep tonight if you drink that - it's full of caffeine.

He used to drink masses of the strongest coffee you can buy but mostly in the daytime because of my insistance that his insomnia was related to late night coffee.

He hasn't suffered from insomnia for a long time now. Even though he sometimes has coffee late at night. And I don't comment any more...it doesn't trigger me like it used to..... and anyway he doesn't believe me or remember or understand about caffeine.

I know Shakespeare had it right -

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.....

Also I'm practising Byron Katie's wonderful wise saying about Whose Business Is It? ....when I remember that is..

You can find this article at this really inspiring website Awaking Weekly.

Staying In Your Own Business by Byron Katie [Listen to Audio!] I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours, and God’s. For me, the word God means "reality." Reality is God, because it rules. Anything that’s out of my control, your control, and everyone else’s control -- I call that God’s business. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our own business. When I think, "You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself," I am in your business. When I’m worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God’s business. If I am mentally in your business or in God’s business, the effect is separation. I noticed this early in 1986. When I mentally went into my mother’s business, for example, with a thought like "My mother should understand me," I immediately experienced a feeling of loneliness. And I realized that every time in my life that I had felt hurt or lonely, I had been in someone else’s business. If you are living your life and I am mentally living your life, who is here living mine? We’re both over there. Being mentally in your business keeps me from being present in my own. I am separate from myself, wondering why my life doesn’t work.To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what’s right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve your problems for you. If you understand the three kinds of business enough to stay in your own business, it could free your life in a way that you can’t even imagine. The next time you’re feeling stress or discomfort, ask yourself whose business you’re in mentally, and you may burst out laughing! That question can bring you back to yourself. And you may come to see that you’ve never really been present, that you’ve been mentally living in other people’s business all your life. Just to notice that you’re in someone else’s business can bring you back to your own wonderful self. And if you practice it for a while, you may come to see that you don’t have any business either and that your life runs perfectly well on its own. --Byron Katie Share the Wisdom:        Latest Community Insights