The
Wise Sage There once was a
wise sage who wandered the countryside. One day, as he passed near a village,
he was approached by a woman who told him of a sick child nearby. She beseeched
him to help this child. So the sage
came to the village, and a crowd gathered around him, for such a man was a rare
sight. One woman brought the sick child to him, and he said a prayer over her. "Do
you really think your prayer will help her, when medicine has failed?" yelled
a man from the crowd. "You know
nothing of such things! You are a stupid fool!" said the sage to the man.
The
man became very angry with these words and his face grew hot and red. He was about
to say something, or perhaps strike out, when the sage walked over to him and
said: "If one word has such power as to make you so angry and hot, may not
another have the power to heal?" And
thus, the sage healed two people that day. "Language
does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty
instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to nurture, to cherish, to
bless, to forgive." - Daphne Rose Kingma Obama
by his words and speeches has managed to galavanise the whole nation and inspite
of his so called disadavantages( first time senator, foriegn sounding name , Afro
American origin...) |