The More We Think We Know, The Less We Know

Many years ago I heard a story, I think it was from Wayne Dyer but I am not sure now, however it was the story not the storyteller that had the most impact on me.

He was riding the subway train when a man and his two young children boarded. The children were loud and running around and just didn't stop. The father tried once to calm them but it didn't work and kids kept misbehaving. Finally the storyteller asked the man, "Can you please keep your kids quiet?"

The father responded, "I'm sorry. We just came from thier mother's funeral and I don't know what to do."

Suddenly the storyteller experienced a paradigm shift. All the while he thought these kids were misbehaving for no reason and the parent was just not doing anything about it in complete disreagard for the other passengers. But in reality the family were all suffering from a terrible tradgedy.

How many times have we all made assumtions about people only to find out later that we didn't have all the information? Taking a minute to thinking about what may be going on with them, helps us remove our ego, self centeredness & self envolvement from the picture and allows us to open our hearts and generate compassion for the other person/people envolved. We reliquish ourselves and our judgement about the other person.

This is a practice wisdom and compassion.

Posted by: Juliette Aiyana