I got this story recently from Dan Millman’s Peaceful Warrior newsletter, but I’ve seen it before somewhere. Like a parable of Jesus, this should make us think.
Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice, you are ready to shout out, “You idiot! What’s wrong with you? Are you blind?” But just before you can catch your breath to speak, you see that the person who bumped into you actually is blind. He, too, is sprawled in the spilled groceries, and your anger vanishes in an instant, to be replaced by sympathetic concern: “Are you hurt? Can I help you up?” Our situation is like that — when we realize that our own ignorance is the source of disharmony and misery, we open the door to wisdom and compassion. -B. Alan Wallace
Faith Venture 
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