Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Pearl

Said one oyster to a neighbouring oyster, “I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round, and I am in distress.”

And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, “Praise be to the heavens and the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without.”

At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, “Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbour bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty.”

From Life Line West Rand "Speakeasy"

2 comments:

  1. Hello
    It has a nice blog.
    Sorry not write more, but my English is bad writing.
    A hug from my country, Portugal

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  2. Thank you. A hug from my country South Africa.

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