Not too long ago in
a place not too far away, a field mouse asked a wise old owl what is the weight
of a snowflake. "Why nothing more than nothing," answered the owl.
The mouse went on
to tell the owl about the time he was resting on a branch in a fir tree,
counting each snowflake until the number was exactly 3 million, 471 thousand,
952. Then with the settling of the very next flake—crack. The branch
suddenly snapped, tumbling mouse and snow to the ground. "Humph …Such was
the weight of nothing," said the mouse.
So the next time
you think your contributions, your acts of charity, your works for justice,
your gifts of love, and your talents are nothing, or that they are small in
comparison to those of others, remember that when one is added to another, and
then to another and so forth, great things can happen from nothing. In the same
way, what seems to be ordinary can be transformed into something extraordinary
with just a little extra nothing.
Your mission is to
create great things once again out of nothingness, to transform the ordinary
into the extraordinary.
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" An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something."
~ Benoit Mandelbrot
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