WORTH READING 5 Dec 2005

The Fatal Fortress

Once upon a time, a king, who read in a remote pattern of the scattered
stars that a great calamity would overtake him on a certain day and at a
particular hour. He, therefore, ordered a rock stronghold to be
constructed,
and when it was completed he had numerous armed guards posted outside.

On the day that the stars foretold his fate, he entered his fortress.
But
when he got inside, he found that he could still see daylight. He
located
the gap in the wall and filled it immediately to prevent misfortune from
entering. He enclosed himself completely, but by blocking out the last
opening against disaster, he also imprisoned himself without light or
air.
Needless to say, without air the king soon died. The stars had not lied,
after all.

There are countless building blocks that our minds use to construct our
personal prisons: anger, resentment, hate, feelings of inferiority,
guilt,
impatience, prejudice, anticipation of calamities. And our spirits can
be
suffocated by the fortresses of fear that we build around ourselves.

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