19.11.10

a thought.

we're all dying, so why waste all of this time trying to preserve ourselves when we could just live, just live life from the depth of the heart.


The Little Prince-

"I hoisted the bucket slowly to the edge of the well and set it there - happy, tired as I was, over my acheivement. The song of the pulley was still in my ears, and I could see the sunlight shimmer in the still trembling water.

"I am thirsty for this water," said the little prince. Give me some of it to drink..."

And I understood what he had been looking for.

I raised the bucket to his lips. He drank, his eyes closed. It was as sweet as some special festival treat. This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a gift.

"The men where you live," said the little prince, "raise five thousand roses in the same garden - and they do not find in it what they are looking for."

"They do not find it." I replied

"And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water."

"Yes, that is true," I said.

And the little prince added:

"But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart..."




"I am glad," he said, "that you agree with my fox."

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