The Enlightened Spirit

“Life is a journey of the heart that requires the mind; not the other way around.”

- John Eldredge -

Two ants met. One had a salt ball in its mouth. The one who did not said, “Come and taste my sweet mountain of sugar.”

The ant carrying the salt ball replied, “It would be my greatest pleasure to go to your home and taste your mountain.”

They traveled together and reached the mountain and began to eat. But the salt ball ant couldn’t taste the mountain of sugar and said, “Don’t tell me lies. Your mountain is as good as my mountain.”

The first ant said, “It is sweet.” But the other ant said, “It is salty.”

The first ant analyzed the situation and asked, “Why is it that although his body and his tongue are the same as mine, he tastes salt?”

Why does one person think one way and someone else think differently?

The sweet ant said, “Come to the waterfall. We should gargle together.”

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