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29 Nov
The Camel and the Mouse
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This is a beautiful story given to us by Emma Forsberg (Quantera), just thought I'd share it with you. It' s beautiful and a lesson to all us Camels and Mice...
There was a Rumi story I once read about a mouse and a camel. The camel and the mouse were standing by the side of the river and the camel (seeing the height of the river was not too great for it) urges the mouse to cross. “I can’t!” Squeaks the mouse, quite rightly, because if it tried to cross it would be washed away. “What do you mean, you can’t?” Grumbles the camel, and proceeds to cross the river stand on the far bank and crosses back to the petrified mouse.
“If I can do it, so can you.” berates the camel to the shivering mouse. “No really camel, I can’t make it.” insists mouse, his voice sounding dejected from such an unreasonable request.
Sometimes I feel really impatient because I feel that I have a piece of knowledge and I feel that my loved ones should understand this knowledge instantly… At these times I try to remember I am the camel – the slightly irritating, pushy tall creature who cannot see from the perspective of the mouse. At other times, the same people have been camel to me… and I can only watch them stunned as they cross their rivers effortlessly.
The end of the Rumi story is that Camel allows the mouse to ride on his nose… and by acknowledging that mouse cannot help his immediate limitation, camel helps mouse in a very real way. He has seen from mouse’s vantage point, and realised that to proceed together he would have to take mouse’s objections seriously. When we are playing camel, the biggest struggle is to identify how we are going to help mouse across… criticising is a failed tactic, and empathy seems to be the only recourse. It is just one of the struggles we are going to surmount as the world becomes more conscious (each individual at different rates in different segments of development). I look forward to the day we can all be mice the size of camels : )
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katy comments ...
thank you so much for this story. i have been feeling very frustrated recently and this perspective has helped me enor(mouse)ly!!!!
not only as a camel but also as a mouse.
with very best wishes,
katy : )
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