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The Messiah
“Once there lived
a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them
all – young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.
Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river
bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned
from birth.
But one creature said at last, ‘I am tired of clinging,.
Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take
me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.
The other creatures
laughed and said, ‘Fool ! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks,
and you will die quicker then boredom!’
But the one heeded them not,
and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.
Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was
bruised and hurt no more.
And the creatures downstream, to whom he was
a stranger, cried, ‘ See a miracle! A creature like ourselve’s, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come
to save us all!’
And the one carried in the current said, ‘
I am no more a Messiah then you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is
this voyage, this adventure’.
But they cried the more, ‘Saviour!’
all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a
Saviour.’”
Richard Bach - Illusions
Let go of "your" rock... trust the "current"
that you enjoy most!
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