Teen Psychic by Julie Tallard Johnson

Author:Julie Tallard Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Teens/New Age
ISBN: 9781594776014
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 2011-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

A CHICKEN OR AN EAGLE

Your beliefs about yourself can limit you or empower you. No matter what someone else believes about you, it only matters if you believe it about yourself. What do you believe about yourself? What do others see when they look at you? Are you a chicken or an eagle? . . .

A man found an eagle’s egg in the nest of a backyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.

All his life the eagle did what the backyard chickens did, thinking he was a backyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would often thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.

Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird far above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.

The old eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked.

“That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbor. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth—we’re chickens.”

So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.

—TRADITIONAL STORY FROM STORIES OF THE SPIRIT, STORIES OF THE HEART, EDITED BY CHRISTINA FELDMAN AND JACK KORNFIELD

“Journeys bring power and love

back into you. If you can’t go somewhere,

move in the passageways of the self.

They are like shafts of light,

always changing, and you change

when you explore them.”

—RUMI,

SUFI MASTER AND POET

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