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the shadow belongs to me, not to you. I have rented you only the mule, not the shadow."
The first man then said, "The price I paid was for both the mule and the shadow." Then they began to argue.
Soon a third man came along and said, "Why are you fighting?" They said, "About the shade." The newcomer said, "What shade?" They said, ''The shade of the mule." He said, "What mule?" What are you talking about?" Then they saw that the mule had gone away when they were fighting. It was tired and it could not bear the sun and the shouting, so it wandered away. Then the first man, cried, "All my load and luggage!" The other said, “'What about my mule!" So they both had to stop arguing and search for the mule.
The same is true in life. You don't know what you are fighting for. You fight for trivial things that bring you nothing. And while you are doing that, you miss the truth. You are fighting for emotions, and the reality slips away. You think you don't have time. You don't take time unless a wise man comes and tells you: "Wait. Stop and think. What are you fighting for?''
When you go deeper into the experience of yourself, then you are able to experience reality. If anything happens, let it happen, but don't divert your attention. Go on in your journey within. If something new and revealing happens, say, "Oh, nice." Life itself is nothing but miracles. The bigger miracle is to find in one small sperm your bones, your eyes, your skull. Where were they? In one cell are kept all these big
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