If you ask a fly if there are flowers here in the vicinity, it will answer: “I don’t know about flowers. But there are a lot of cans, manure, and sewage in that ditch.” And the fly will begin to list to you in order all the garbage dumps it has visited.
And if you ask a bee: “Have you seen any uncleanness here in the vicinity?”, she will answer: “Employment? No, I haven’t seen it anywhere. There are so many fragrant flowers here!” the bee will begin to list to you many different flowers - garden and field.
You see how: a fly only knows about garbage dumps, but a bee knows that a lily grows nearby, and a hyacinth has bloomed a little further away.
As I understand it, some people are like a bee, while others are like a fly. Those who are like flies look for something bad in every situation and do only that. They don't see an ounce of good in anything. Those who are like a bee find goodness in everything. The person is damaged and thinks damaged. He treats everything with prejudice, he sees everything topsy-turvy, while the one who has good thoughts - no matter what he sees, no matter what he is told about - includes a good thought in his work.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru