Man found an eagle's egg and put it in the nest of a hen.
The egg hatched simultaneously with those of the eaglet hatched and grew along with the chicks.
Throughout his life the eagle did what the backyard chickens did, thinking of being one of them.
poking the ground looking for worms and insects, brood and shouting, shaking its wings, rising from the ground a few feet.
Years passed and the eagle grew very old.
One day he saw above him in the cloudless sky, a beautiful bird that soared, majestic and elegant in the midst of a strong air current, barely moving his strong golden wings.
The old eagle looked up, startled. "Who is that?" churches.
"It 's eagle, the king of birds," said his neighbor. "It belongs to the sky. But we belong to the earth, because we are chickens."
So the eagle lived and died like a chicken because he thought to be such.
The egg hatched simultaneously with those of the eaglet hatched and grew along with the chicks.
Throughout his life the eagle did what the backyard chickens did, thinking of being one of them.
poking the ground looking for worms and insects, brood and shouting, shaking its wings, rising from the ground a few feet.
Years passed and the eagle grew very old.
One day he saw above him in the cloudless sky, a beautiful bird that soared, majestic and elegant in the midst of a strong air current, barely moving his strong golden wings.
The old eagle looked up, startled. "Who is that?" churches.
"It 's eagle, the king of birds," said his neighbor. "It belongs to the sky. But we belong to the earth, because we are chickens."
So the eagle lived and died like a chicken because he thought to be such.
(Anthony De Mello)
http://leggoerifletto.blogspot.com/2010/08/anthony-de-mello-biografia.html
source: "Message for an eagle, a chicken who believes" (1990)
http://leggoerifletto.blogspot.com/2010/08/anthony-de-mello-biografia.html
source: "Message for an eagle, a chicken who believes" (1990)
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