Hi,
Friends!
I limited myself to introduce a change in my way
of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a
different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the
child is a living being, and a chair is an object.
There was once an animal born into this world, and opening his
eyes upon Life, he saw above and about him confining walls, and before him were
bars of iron through which came air and light from without; this animal was
born in a cage.
Here he grew and throve in strength and beauty under the care of
an invisible protecting hand. Hungering, the food was ever at hand. When he
thirsted water was brought, and when he felt the need to rest, there was
provided a bed of straw upon which to lie; and here he found it good, licking
his handsome flanks, to bask in the sunbeam that he thought existed but to
lighten his home.
Awaking one day from his slothful rest, lo! the door of his cage
stood open: accident had opened it. In the corner, he crouched, wondering and
fearingly. Then slowly did he approach the door, dreading the unaccustomed, and
would have closed it, but for such a task his limbs were purposeless. So out
the opening, he thrust his head, to see the canopy of the sky grow broader, and
the world waxing wider.
Back to his corner but not to rest, for the spell of the Unknown
was over him, and again and again, he goes to the open door, seeing each time
more Light.
Then one time standing in the flood of it; a deep indrawn breath –
a bracing of strong limbs, and with a bound, he was gone.
On he rushes, in his mad flight, heedless that he is wounding and
tearing his sleek sides – seeing, smelling, touching of all things; even
stopping to put his lips to the noxious pool, thinking it may be sweet.
Hungering there is no food but such as he must seek and ofttimes
fight for; and his limbs are weighted before he reaches the water that is good
for his thirsting throat.
So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering. The door
which accident had opened is opened still, but the cage remains forever empty!
Mighte this tell you that you are in a same cage. Are you ? You
should check it out.
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