Professor
by Natalie Holland
Title
Professor
Artist
Natalie Holland
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas Panel
Description
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown
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Life is Like a Cup of Coffee
Spiritual Story by Unknown
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
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Comments (44)
Christel Roelandt
Great portraiture, Natalie, love the colours and the energy, you`ve symbolised an ever creative and working mind here so well!! L&F, Christel.
Madalena Lobao-Tello
CONGRATULATIONS!! Featured on Women Painters. Very well done! Great artwork!!!!
Natalie Holland
Many thanks to the art collector from Sumter, SC for purchasing my work! I appreciate it very much! Enjoy! :)