"An Old Man's Advice"

A brother asked an old man;

`What is humility?'

And the old man said;

`To do good to those who hurt you'.

The brother said;

`If you cannot go that far,

what should you do?'

The old man replied;

`Get away from them

and keep your mouth shut'.

~From the sayings of the Desert Fathers,

(5th century),

Egypt

*Enya/V.B.                                                                                                         ~Beannaichte' (12-12-11)