Friday, 8 April 2005

The dragon and the centipede

The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.

To a group of disciples who had difficulty understanding that, he told the following story:

There was once a one-legged dragon who said to the centipede,

"How do you manage all those legs? It is all I can do to manage one."

"To tell the truth," said the centipede, "I do not manage them at all."

Anthony de Mello,
SJOne Minute Wisdom

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