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Monday, March 24, 2008 Joe and the ErmineA wise man once told me, "We're a network. Every action by an individual affects the Universe as a whole, like a ripple in the sea."Joseph Jaworski got up early in the morning to fish in a stream not far from his camp.  As he walked along, suddenly in front of him a beautiful ermine popped out of the deep snow. She couldn’t have been more than ten feet from him. All at once she appeared with her almost black eyes looking directly into his. He stopped on his tracks. She sat there staring straight at him, moving not a whisker or a muscle. It seemed as if they looked into one another’s eyes for several minutes, but perhaps it was less than one. She turned to go but stopped, turned around again, and took another long look at him. Then she began.She jumped up into the air and did a huge flip, and then looked into his eyes again, as if to say, “What did you think about that?” She did this same trick for him three or four times, each time cocking her head to the side and looking at him as if to ask for his approval. He stood there, held transfixed. Then he began smiling and cocking his head in the same direction as hers. This went on for the longest time. There together, he felt at one with that ermine. Finally, when she had finished, she turned around once more and looked at him, then went down into the snow again and she was gone. It was a moment when Joe communicated with the ermine. He experienced what he could only describe as a kind of transcendence of time and a feeling of oneness with the universe. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. - Max Frisch Labels: Adapted from Synchronicity - The Inner Path to Leadership by Joseph Jaworski |
