Thursday, February 4, 2010

Haitian Folktale

There were two elderly neighbors who had been fighting since they were little children. One day they were both outside clipping the hedges that had grown extremely tall. They both were on high ladders in order to clip the hedges.

The one neighbor made a small opening in the hedges and said to his neighbor that we had both been fighting for a long time. Why not rent a boat and go fishing together. The other neighbor agreed. The following day they rented the boat and set out into the ocean.

One sat on one side of the small boat and the other on the other side. After they finally reached their fishing spot the one neighbor turned to the other neighbor and said that you have been laughing at me every since we left land. What is so funny? The neighbor then pointed to the other neighbors’ side of the boat and said there is a leak on your side of the boat!

[We are all in this human experience together and isn't it time we put aside our differences and worked together in order to raise and expand the levels of human consciousness? Imagine the world we could have where no child is left without a parent. Imagine a world without war but one that simply motivates all people to inner joy and self-illumination. We do not need to return civilization do the dark ages but rather move it and ourselves into the Light of Self-enlightenment. Each human being is important and every time one is taken from us we become less as a world and as a people of this planet.]

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