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Many years ago, I came across Anthony de Mello’s wonderful book, Awareness. I have often turned to this book for inspiration and guidance. I would go as far as to say that this book was life changing. But one story stays always in my mind. It is a wonderful parable. Indeed, it is the essence of all that I believe. A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.
Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat on his strong golden wings. The old eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked. “That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbour. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth – we’re chickens.” So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was. |
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| ‘Don’t change: Desire to change is the enemy of love. Don’t change yourselves: Love yourselves as you are. Don’t change others: Love all others as they are. Don’t change the world: It is in God’s hands and he knows. And if you do that change will occur Marvelously in its own way and in its own time Yield to the current of life unencumbered by baggage.’ Anthony de Mello |
