"A very touching story from the Talmud captures the soft paradox of all these aspects of the journey. A rabbi asks his students, "How do you know the first moment of dawn has arrived?" After a great silence, one pipes up, "When you can tell the difference between a sheep and a dog." The rabbi shakes his head no. Another offers, "When you can tell the difference between a fig tree and an olive tree." Again, the rabbi shakes his head no. There are no other answers. The rabbi circles their silence and walks between them, "You know the first moment of dawn has arrived, when you look into the eyes of another human being and see yourself."
"Solitude does not mean living apart from others; it means never living apart from one's self." Parker Palmer
From the Book "Finding Inner Courage" by Mark Nepo
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