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04/07/2002 Entry: "Belief"
What we believe is important, because our beliefs shape who and what we are:
A man found the egg of an eagle. It had been abandoned for some reason by its mother, but as it was still warm the man took it and put it in the nest of one of his backyard chickens along with the other eggs that were there being brooded upon
After a period of time the eaglet was hatched, and along with the other chicks from his nest began to go about the backyard doing what
the other chicks did. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He looked for the corn that the man would throw into the yard. He clucked and cackled as best as he could, and as he grew, he would, like the other chickens, thrash his wings and fly a few feet in the air.
Years passed in this way and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird far above him in the cloudless sky. It glided majestically among the powerful wind currents, soaring and swooping, scarcely beating its long golden wings.
The old eagle looked at it in awe and asked, "What is that?"
"That is the eagle, the king of the birds", said one of his neighbours. "He belongs to the sky and to the high places. We belong to the earth, we are chickens."
The old eagle knew this was true, and so it was he lived and died as a chicken, for that is what he believed he was.
