What do marbles, fingerprints and snowflakes have in common?
They are all unique, different, unrepeatable and unequaled.
that is truer than true.
There is no one alive
who is Youer than You.
~Dr. Seuss~
This is a short story I received in an email…
A man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake.
They didn’t look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him. As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could.
He thought little about it, until he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock. Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!
Excited, the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls. Each contained a similar treasure. He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the twenty or so clay balls he had left. Then it struck him.
He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe fifty or sixty of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the ocean waves. Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just thrown it away!
It’s like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel. It doesn’t look like much from the outside. It isn’t always beautiful or sparkling, so we discount it.
We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy, but we have not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person.
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Can you see the beauty within? Do you appreciate your value and unique qualities? Reflect on your qualities and embrace them. If you see things you don’t like, change them. Appreciate the beauty within because there will never be another you.
Unique and unrepeatable.
~Eileen Caddy~
Hold your chin up proudly today.
Sometimes it's so easy to judge a book by it's cover…sadly to say. But thanks for the post. I happen to like me..and I'm ok with me =)… it's nice to remember that.
great post!! thanks so much for stopping by my blog. i am enjoying yours!
What a great message! I've never heard that story before, I'll have to pass it on.
what a wonderful post…we judge too quickly and stubbornly take time to change our minds…this post we should keep it in our minds