Mind Your Words - an interesting parable
August 17th, 2008 10:50 pmAfter I published my last post about how we should be mindful with our words, I received an email containing the following story:
A bishop met a woman at the markets. It was known that this woman spread all kinds of gossip everywhere she went. The bishop took the goose which the woman had just bought, plucked all the feathers and scattered them in all directions.
The woman was wondering about the bishop’s strange behaviour and asked in astonishment why he was doing this. The bishop replied to her: “Go and collect all these feathers, every single one of them! You carelessly cast all your words to the wind. I scattered the feathers in all directions the same way you spread your words. Go and see whether you can get all the feathers back again. “ After the bishop said this to the woman, she suddenly understood that words, once spoken, are very difficult to capture again.
From this time onwards the woman was much more cautious with her words.
Thank you Irmgard for this lovely tale.
Till next time,
Connie,
Your Yoga Partner
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