Good inspiration phrases for sharing from Joo Hock

Dear Mike and fellow Buckians

What a wonderful paradox Dr Srikumar assertion "Positive Thinking is Bad for You!!" Ha ha

The other day I was at a seminar, and the trainer said, "don't mix with people who are always negative.....you'll become negative" I replied him that's that may not be necessary true. I know of some friends who are negative, always blaming and complaining, ....I realized that being with this kind of people can also make me feel how fortunate I am, I become more positive. Complementarity!!

May I share the following, extract from Buckminster Fuller's book Critical Path

".....the words good and bad are meaningless. This is based on science and not an opinion. In 1922 physicists discovered a fundamental complementarity of disparate individual phenomenon to be operative in physical Universe. This was fundamentally amplified with the subsequent discovery of the always-and-only-different, always-co-existing proton and neutron which, with their always-coexistent electrons, positrons, neutrinos, and antineutrinos, are eternally intertransformable.
No longer was valid the "building block" of the Universe. It was discovered that unity was plural and at minimum sixfold. All the intercomplementations are essential to the successful accomplishment of eternally regenerative Universe. Science's discovery of fundamental complementarity has frequently occasioned individual scientist's realization that the word negative used as the opposite of the word positive is at best carelessly and misinformedly employed.
Since complementarity is essential to the success of eternally regenerative Universe, the phenomenon identified as the opposite of positive cannot be negative, nor can it be bad, since the interopposed phenomena known heretofore as good and bad are essential to the 100-percent success of eternally regenerative Universe. They are both GOOD for the Universe.
Science recognizes many fundamentally complementary aspects of Universe. The black hole is not a negative. As implosion is to explosion, the black hole phenomenon is to the inside-out, expanding Universe. The black hole is the inverse phase -- the outside-inning phase -- of cosmic evolution. What humans have identified as good and bad -- or as positive and negative -- are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications."
Good luck or Bad luck?
There is a Chinese story of a farmer who used an old horse to till his fields. One day, the horse escaped into the hills and when the farmer's neighbors sympathized with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, "Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?" A week later, the horse returned with a herd of horses from the hills and this time the neighbors congratulated the farmer on his good luck. His reply was, "Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?"
Then, when the farmer's son was attempting to tame one of the wild horses, he fell off its back and broke his leg. Everyone thought this very bad luck. Not the farmer, whose only reaction was, "Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?"
Some weeks later, the army marched into the village and conscripted every able-bodied youth they found there. When they saw the farmer's son with his broken leg, they let him off. Now was that good luck or bad luck?
Who knows?
Everything that seems on the surface to be an evil may be a good in disguise. And everything that seems good on the surface may really be an evil. So we are wise when we leave it to God to decide what is good fortune and what misfortune, and thank him that all things turn out for good with those who love him.
Or actually All is GOOD?

Buckyfully yours
JooHock