This comes from the book The Song of the Bird
It was nine o’clock in the morning and
Nasruddin was fast asleep. The sun had
risen in the sky, the birds were singing
in the trees, and Nasruddin’s breakfast
was getting cold. So his wife woke
him up.
He woke up in a towering rage. “Why did
you wake me up just now?” he shouted.
“The sun has risen in the sky,” said his
wife, “the birds are singing in the trees,
and your breakfast is getting cold.”
Book: The Song of the Bird – Anthony De Mello
The master’s sermon that day consisted
of one enigmatic sentence.With a wry smile he said, “All
I do is sit by the bank of the river,
selling river water.”
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I was so busy buying the water that I failed to see the river. -Anthony De Mello (commentary)
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How many times have we done this in our lives, that we are so busy focusing on ourselves, the dreams we put into our own eyes that we forget to see the beauty of Reality?
