ALONG THE ROAD

by Robert Browning Hamilton

I walked a mile with Pleasure;

She chattered all the way,

But left me none the wiser

For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow

And ne'er a word said she;

But oh, the things I learned from her

When Sorrow walked with me!

A Zen master and his students were walking in the forest and they came across a large boulder. 

On seeing that, the master asked his students, "Is this boulder heavy?"

"Yes," they replied, "it is very heavy."

The Zen master asked, "Are you sure?"

The students looked at it again and said of course it's very heavy.

And with that, the master replied, "Only if you pick it up."

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 "Whatever Jesus lays his hands upon lives.  If Jesus lays his hands upon a marriage, it lives.  If he is allowed to lay his hands on the family, it lives."

-Howard W. Hunter, Reading the Scriptures

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."

-Stephen R. Covey 

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?  Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

-T.S. Eliot, The Rock