FW: Namaste- SynchroDestiny- Sensitivity

[Guest guest]

Am forwarding this on as it very much fits the mood of this philosophical

list :-)

 

Wendy

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The King and the Beggar

 

As I went begging today from door to door they cried,

"He is coming! He draws near!" And seeing the dust of

your gorgeous chariot, I thought, "Who can this be but

a king among kings?"

 

My hopes soared, and I stood there waiting for alms to

be given and wealth scattered in the dust. Your chariot

stopped right before me, you looked down with a smile,

and I knew that the luck of my days had come. Until

suddenly you held out your palm and said, "What will

you give?"

 

Begging from a beggar! What a kingly jest - I was confused

and dismayed, but I groped in my sack until I brought out

one grain of wheat, the tiniest thing I could afford.

 

I got home that night and emptied my sack on the floor,

only to spy a grain of gold gleaming there in the heap. Then

how bitterly I wept.

 

If you did this for a tiny grain of wheat,

what would you return if I had given you everything?

 

--Rabindranath Tagore

 

Excerpted from "The Soul in Love", by Deepak Chopra.