Vol. 6, The Alchemy of Happiness The Development of Personality
There is a story of a dervish who was standing in the middle of the street when the procession of the king was approaching. First came the pages who ran before the procession and they pushed him and said, "Don't you see, the king is coming! Go away!" And the dervish smiled and said, "That is why"; and he remained in the same place. Then there came the horsemen, the bodyguards. They said, "Get out of the way, the procession is coming!" The dervish smiled and said, "That is why." Next the courtiers came and saw the dervish standing there. And instead of telling the dervish to go away, they moved their horses a little away from where he stood. And again the dervish said, "That is why." Finally came the king, and when the king saw the dervish standing there, he greeted him first; and the dervish in reply said, "That is why." An intelligent young man asked him, "What is it you mean by this remark?" The dervish answered, "You can see, that is why he is what he is."
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