Choice

 And each moment always has both alternatives; you can choose to be miserable or to be blissful. Start looking in this way: in each situation, first try to find out what will make you miserable and what will make you happy.

When I was a small child, my father made a beautiful house. But the architect deceived him—he was a simple man—so the house collapsed in the first rains. We were just going to move into the house; just two or three days more and we would have been in the house and the house collapsed. My father was far away; I telegrammed him, “Come immediately—the house has collapsed!” He never came, he never answered. He came when he was expected to come and the first thing that he told me was „You are a fool! That house is gone—why did you waste ten rupees in giving me such a long telegram? Those ten rupees could have been saved! And thank god that the house collapsed at the right time. If it had waited just four or five more days then it would have killed the whole family!”

He invited the whole village for a feast. I LOVED that idea! The whole town laughed saying “This is sheer nonsense: your house has collapsed, everything is feeling miserable about it!” And he called all the people of the town—it was a small town—for a big feast, to thank God for helping us. Just four days more and the whole family would have died! This is what I call choosing, in every situation, the blissful part.