This story is an allegory of the human condition. It addresses issues like possessiveness, drunkness, conseit, selfishness, laziness, aimlessness, discontentedness. It was a really easy read and yet made you want to stop and think about what it was REALLY saying. I enjoyed it and have a couple of quotes that I like here for you.
"'Then you shall judge yourself,' answered the king. 'That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then indeed you are very wise.'"
(so true!)
"It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
( the author focuse so much on all the people who focused on what they could see and yet never felt happy. Genuine happiness is not in our things but where we put our hearts.)
1 comment:
Good for you for continuing to plow through your classics etc...I have never read that one....AuntyB
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