There was once a house where three beings lived, an optimist, a pessimist, and a God. They were all sitting together in their living room, and they had decided they were quite hungry and that they would have sandwiches for lunch.
"I'm going to utilize the power of positive thinking to manifest sandwiches for all of us!" declared the optimist.
"Why even bother making a sandwich? We're just going to get hungry again..." mourned the pessimist.
Meanwhile, the God went to the kitchen to make sandwiches for everyone. When she was done, she brought them back out and shared them with the other two.
The optimist ate his sandwich while thinking about what a great job he had done manifesting it for himself. The pessimist at the sandwich, but made sure to find something wrong with it. It was whole wheat bread, when it should have been white. All the while the God just happily enjoyed her sandwich.
If you really want happiness, live in the moment. Don't live in some imaginary future, and let go of the chains of the past. Don't live in your mind, which is what both the optimist and pessimist are doing. Positive thinking isn't the cure for negative thinking, because the problem is there's too much thinking. All the attention is on the mind, and the body gets neglected, and the Soul gets ignored.
