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woman I have changed my mind." And he started back to meet them.
Meanwhile, the old woman had a fresh thought:“I must have been crazy to have asked a stranger to take my daughter five miles away from here. Anything could have happened. It is good that he did not agree to my request.
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Then she saw him standing by a tree waiting for them. He greeted them saying: "Yes, I have changed my mind. I will take your daughter on my camel." The old woman smiled and told him: "Friend, do you know? The thought which has come to you has just now passed before my mind and I have heard its message. Before when you spoke spontaneously, I did also; then I said "Yes," and you said "No." Both of us were at that time sincere and trusting. Now impurity has come in you, so doubt has come in me."
Man does not understand this cosmic law and thus creates his own defeat. In our lonely moments we think in negative ways. Then slowly those negative thoughts become concrete. In fact, they become so solid that we are not in a condition to break them.
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