The Power of Now
2007-12-16 | Filed Under snippets |
A beggar had been sitting by the side of the road for thirty years.
One day a stranger walked by.
“Spare some change?” mumbled the beggar.
“I have nothing to give you,” said the stranger. Then he asked: “What’s that you’re sitting on?”
“Nothing, ” replied the beggar. “Just an old box. I’ve been sitting on it for as long as I can remember.
“Ever look inside?,” asked the stranger.
“No,” said the beggar. “What’s the point, there’s nothing in there.”
“Have a look inside,” insisted the stranger. The beggar, reluctantly, managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.
I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside.
Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself.
From The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Toll.
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4 Responses to “The Power of Now”
That’s a NICE excerpt. It reminds me of a story of the gods getting together a long, long time ago to determine where best to hide wisdom & knowledge. Mountaintops or the deeps of the oceans were soon discarded because they knew man would scour the earth. So too were the moon & other planets, because man would get there also, eventually. So finally they decided to hide them in the one place man would never look, inside himself.
Beautiful! I have never heard this before!
Yours in the Gods!
spyro
Great
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all first grade teachers told this story to their kid’s at story hour?
And then just so they don’t forget re-tell in second and thid etc..
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