Category: Stories, Fables and Myths

 

Everything you need to know you can learn from the story, Noah’s Ark. To find out more about it, check out Wikipedia.

Here’s the 19 point list. Enjoy.

1. Don’t miss the boat.
2. Remember that we are all in the same boat!
3. Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark.
4. Stay fit. When you’re old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
5. Don’t listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
6.  Build your future on high ground.
7. Finish what you start.
8. For safety’s sake, travel in pairs.
9. Two heads are better than one.
10. Speed isn’t always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
11. When you’re stressed, float awhile.
12. Stay below the deck during the storm.
13. Remember that the woodpeckers inside are often a bigger threat than the storm outside.
14. Always live a righteous life. Even if you are the only one; it will be noticed.
15. When the doo-doo gets really deep, don’t sit there and complain — shovel!
16. If you have to start over, it’s good to have a friend by your side.
17. Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
18. No matter the storm, or how bleak it looks, there’s always a rainbow waiting.
19. When you’ve been brought safely through the storm, don’t forget to give thanks.

– Author Unknown

[This list has been compiled from anonymous authors, found in various postings on the internet.]

Keep manifesting 🙂
Tony

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The Blind Men and the Elephant is quite a famous Indian fable. It tells the story of six blind travelers who come across different parts of an elephant as they journey through life. You may have heard it and, if so, it bears repeating. If not, like my wife, you will find it to be a very interesting parable.

As each blind man touches the large mammal, he creates his own version of reality based on his limited experience and perspective. It reminds me of organized religions, with their individual interpretation of God/Supreme Source, as well as their assumption that theirs is the only “right” “best” or “true Path”.

Do you judge a book by its cover? Do you make assumptions based on first impressions? Do you, like me, sometimes decide that you are right and everyone else wrong? Are you a blind man touching an elephant? Read the fable and see for yourself! Here is a popular version by John Godfrey Saxes:

It was six men of Indostan, to learning much inclined, who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were blind), that each by observation, might satisfy his mind.

The first approached the elephant, and, happening to fall, against his broad and sturdy side, at once began to bawl:’God bless me! but the elephant is nothing but a wall!’

The second feeling of the tusk cried: ‘Ho! what have we here, so very round and smooth and sharp? To me, tis mighty clear, this wonder of an elephant, is very like a spear!’

The third approached the animal, and, happening to take, the squirming trunk within his hands, ‘I see,’ quoth he, the elephant is very like a snake!’

The fourth reached out his eager hand, and felt about the knee:’What most this wondrous beast is like, is mighty plain,’ quoth he; ‘Tis clear enough the elephant is very like a tree.’

The fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said; ‘E’en the blindest man can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can, This marvel of an elephant, is very like a fan!’

The sixth no sooner had begun, about the beast to grope, than, seizing on the swinging tail, that fell within his scope, ‘I see,’ quothe he, ‘the elephant is very like a rope!’

And so these men of Indostan, disputed loud and long, each in his own opinion, exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, and all were in the wrong!

MORAL: So, oft in theologic wars, the disputants, I ween, tread on in utter ignorance, of what each other mean and prate about the elephant, not one of them has seen.

Keep manifesting  😆
Tony

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