Thought for the day - September 17, 2006
Sep 17, 2006 06:06 AM
by Bill Meredith
A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The
eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.
All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he
was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects.
He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few
feet into the air.
Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a
magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful
majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its
strong golden wings.
The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he asked.
"That's the eagle, the king of the birds," said his neighbor. "He
belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth-- we're chickens." So the
eagle lived and died a chicken, for that's what he thought he was.
From Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
by Anthony de Mello
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