[tri-wings] FW: Fable- stopping the pain


Subject: FW: Fable
Read this in a book and think of it often!LouAnn:> > > > This was in the book 
Co-dependent no more> >> > > > Once upon a time , a woman moved to a cave in 
the mountains to study with a guru. She wanted , she said, to learn everything 
there was to know.> > The guru supplied her with stacks of books and left her 
alone so she could study. Every morning, the guru returned to the cave> > to 
monitor the woman's progress. In his hand, he carried a heavy wooden cane. Each 
morning , he asked her the same question: Have you learned everything> > there 
is to know yet?"Each morning, her answer was the same. "No," She said, "I 
haven't ." The guru would then strike her over the head with his cane.> > This 
senerio repeated itself for months. One day the guru entered the cave, asked 
the same question , heard the same answer, and raised> > his cane to hit her in 
the same way, but the woman grabbed the cane from the guru, stopping the 
assault in mid air.> > Relieved to end the daily batterings but fearing 
reprisal, the woman looked up at the guru. To her surprise, the guru smiled. " 
Congratulations," he said,> > "You have graduated. You now know everything you 
need to know."> > "How's that?" the woman asked.> > You have learned that you 
will never learn everything there is to know," he replied. "And you have 
learned how to stop the pain."
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