Looking for opportunities Within

SEARCH NO MORE

Ali Hafed was a farmer from Africa, who was happy and contented. One
day a priest came to visit him and told him about the glory of
diamonds and the power that goes along with having them. The priest
said, "If you have a diamond the size of your thumb, you could have
your own city. If you had a diamond the size of your fist, you could
own the whole country." After the priest left, the farmer could not
sleep that night. He became unhappy and discontented with what he
had, and the whole night he thought to himself how rich and powerful
he would become if he could possess some diamonds.
The next morning, he sold off his farm, left his family with his
neighbor, and set off to search for diamonds. He traveled all over
Africa, but could not find any. He looked all over Europe and
couldn't find any. Finally, he became emotionally, physically and
financially broke and decided to take his own life by throwing
himself into the river.
Back home, the person who had bought his farm was watering the camels
at a stream that ran through the farm. He suddenly saw a curious
flash of light from the white sands of the shallow stream. Reaching
into the water, he pulled out a rough stone that sparkled like the
colors of the rainbow. Finding the stone interesting, he took it back
to his house and placed it as a decoration piece in his living room.
One day the priest came to visit, and saw the sparkling stone. He
exclaimed, "Here is a diamond! Is Hafed back?" The man replied, "No,
no, Hafed has not returned, and that is not a diamond. It is only a
stone I found right here in the garden." When the priest heard this,
he declared, "I know a diamond when I see one."
Together they rushed out to the garden stream and began searching. To
their amazement, there came up other more beautiful and valuable
stones than the first. Thus, was discovered the largest diamond mine
in the world.


SUCCESS PRINCIPLES

The above story, Acres of Diamonds was lectured by Russell H. Conwell
more than 6,000 times during his lifetime. With the funds from the
above lectures he founded Temple University.
We are forever looking for opportunities elsewhere rather than within
us. "Acres of Diamonds" taught us that the riches and opportunities
that we are searching are within us. As the saying goes, "the grass
on the other side always appears to be greener." Diamonds in its
rough form do not look like diamonds. The raw diamonds need to be
skillfully worked on and polished before they are of value. Likewise
most of us are like the raw diamonds, and need to be worked on and
polished before we realize our full potential.

Good One!!!!

Hi Cheer,

wonderful post.

madhu

Real life example to show us where we can find happiness.

Sriniketan

Ure true sri, real happiness is inside & we waste our whole life looking around.

Originally Posted by Sriniketan

Real life example to show us where we can find happiness.

Sriniketan

Hi Cheer,
that's real good post one need to polish themselves to get best out of them.

bye

padma

Thanx padma

Originally Posted by padmatvt

Hi Cheer,
that's real good post one need to polish themselves to get best out of them.

bye

padma

hi cheer,

a valuable message with a story always goes deep into your heart. yours is one like that. a good post.

regards,

Vanaja