domingo, 31 de julho de 2016

Oprah

Are you listening to your life? Short story de Parker J. Palmer, publicada no livro abaixo.

"Accepting this birthright gift of self turns out to be even more demanding than attempting to become someone else. I've sometimes responded to that demand by ignoring the gift or hiding it or fleeing from it, and I don't think I'm alone. An old Hasidic tale reveals both the universal tendency to want to be someone else and the importance of becoming one's self: Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said: "In the coming world, they will not ask me, 'Why were you not Moses? 'They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?'.


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